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IBM Cognos

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of IBM Cognos is 3.2%, down from 4.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon QuickSight is 8.2%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QlikView is 2.3%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Reporting

3.1%

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Embedded BI

7.1%

Featured Reviews

it_user259185

Prinicipal Software Engineer at Manhattan Associates

Oct 5, 2016

It offers metadata modelling and dashboard visualizations.

Metadata modelling using Transformer and Framework Manager Visualization using Dashboard Normally for BI implementations, these are the critical aspects I have not worked for an organization who is a direct beneficiary of the product. I have worked for vendor companies who have implementation…

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Julio Caldas

Engineer at Podiobrasil

Jan 5, 2023

Powerful, easy to use, with excellent pricing plan

Our primary use case bank in the financial sector, we review the information and make some validation with the legacy system and a book of indicators of KPIs with directors and CEOs The data is very powerful and the splice is fast. The most valuable feature I have found is the low-level…

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it_user235527

IT Manager / Specialist at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 30, 2016

We use it to track information on service desk tickets and SLAs.

The most valuable feature is its flexibility to develop dynamic analysis, gathering information from different sources, such as spreadsheet, database and internet With QlikView, my organization is able to track information related to service desk tickets and SLAs. This information helps us find…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."

"The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."

"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."

"We use the account statement report. When you use an account in HSBC, you receive various types of accounts, such as the stock market, fixed accounts, credit cards, and business accounts. We can create one consolidated report called CCS support, which includes all these accounts. In that statement, we are consolidating all those accounts."

"The initial setup is very straightforward."

"It is a stable product."

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"It is notably fast in handling large data set refreshes, making it efficient for data analysis."

"It is fine for basic reporting."

"The solution is simple to implement."

"The ease with which it integrates with different data sources is most valuable. Especially when everything is on AWS, it is easy to connect to the data source and organize different dashboards."

"The product is easy to learn."

"The query and dashboard capabilities are entirely good."

"It helped the managers to visualize the data activities."

"Easily able to connect with our other services and easy to manage."

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"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."

"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."

"On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL."

"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."

"The scalability is there."

"The most valuable feature of QlikView is the integration with other third-party tools."

"The search feature: ability to see the related data."

"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."

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Cons

"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."

"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."

"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."

"One thing that we really want is the ability to have data portrayed on an image. Cognos is not able to do it at the moment, and that's becoming a requirement from the business side: having an image and then plotting your dataset on top of the image as a map."

"I would like them to reinclude PowerPlay. One thing that I am missing in the current Cognos is what was formally named PowerPlay. They have basically removed PowerPlay from it, which is something that I fail to understand because it was the most wonderful tool for business intelligence that I've ever used. As far as I know, they don't provide this functionality anymore, so this is one thing that I dislike about Cognos."

"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."

"It could have more options for themes."

"I would like to have predictive and forecasting capabilities in Cognos. It's one thing to do reporting, and another thing to easily predict or forecast certain data points, which is very important for all the clients."

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"There could be an end-to-end pipeline for data cleaning as well as presenting it using different visualizations."

"Amazon QuickSight's visualization could be improved."

"One area is that integrating data from different sources into QuickSight can be a bit tricky, especially with Amazon Connect. To get data flowing, you need to use two additional services and configure them correctly."

"It's not ideal for reports that are more complex."

"I would like to see a feature that allows us to save a draft version before making it public and publishing it."

"Compared to Power BI, I felt QuickSight lacks some features, like delayed drill-downs. Drill-downs were the main area where we found QuickSight lacking."

"The number of features in the product is limited in comparison with the other tools in the market, like Power BI."

"The product is quite expensive because the price is too close to QlikView's prices but it does not ring as well as QlikView."

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"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."

"Although Qliktech's road map clearly states that QlikView has a long way to go, most of the R&D effort seems to be benefiting Qlik Sense."

"The only thing I would improve about it is the fact that it refreshes all the time, and when it does that, it just deletes all the options you had, all the filters that you had selected, so you need to select them from the beginning."

"QlikView's UI could be more user-friendly."

"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."

"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of a feature that would allow us to add a common library of (our) commands used in load scripts and expressions, so with a keyword, we would get a drop down to select the command we are looking for, as opposed to the generic help."

"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."

"The pricing is high."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cognos is super expensive compared to Tableau ($70/month) and Power BI ($20/month) — I think Cognos is roughly $200 a month."

"The cost of IBM Cognos it's more or less the same as most of the other solutions on the market. They're very competitive with the rest of the market and it is not the most expensive product."

"It is averagely priced."

"IBM Cognos offers competitive pricing similar to other BI vendors in the market."

"The solution is affordable."

"I don't know the exact cost, but I believe Cognos is quite expensive, especially when it comes to the support consultants and the procedures that need to be applied."

"IBM Cognos price is on the higher side of the spectrum. However, with the features that it brings, such as correlation analysis, it's worth the money. They should look at the pricing more clearly because it's a little on the higher side."

"On a scale from one to ten where one is low pricing and ten is high pricing, I would rate this solution at eight."

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"The Amazon QuickSight licensing model my company's on is pay-as-you-go, but I wouldn't be able to give the figures because that's handled by the finance department."

"I'm using a paid version of Amazon QuickSight, paying about $22 monthly. As I have yet to learn about the pricing for other tools, such as Power BI, I won't be able to compare."

"The pricing is cost-effective with a good plan."

"The solution's pricing is cheaper than the other products in the market."

"It is simpler and cheaper than other solutions."

"A highly affordable cost structure with fixed membership and timeframe basis options."

"I rate the price of Amazon QuickSight a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

"The solution is not affordable."

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"QlikView pricing and licensing is on the high side for a small sized company, but it's competitive among its peers."

"It's reasonably priced and falls on the more affordable side."

"The pricing is moderate, in the medium price range."

"It has an annual license. It is expensive as compared to other competitive tools that do more for less. In South African rands, we pay about 100,000 to 200,000 a year."

"I rate the product's pricing a three out of ten."

"The pricing is too high compared to the other solutions on the market."

"It is expensive for small companies."

"I rate QlikView's pricing a five out of ten."

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Comparison Review

it_user79932

Senior Manager - BI Head at NVidia

Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

60%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement. Some great tools in the market are Qlik ...

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What do you like most about IBM Cognos?

The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools.

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What needs improvement with IBM Cognos?

The tool does not have much documentation on the internet. It is not easy to resolve issues by finding the reason for...

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What do you like most about Amazon QuickSight?

The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon QuickSight?

My company had a corporate discount and other arrangements, so I'm not familiar with the standard pricing.

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What needs improvement with Amazon QuickSight?

Compared to Power BI, I felt QuickSight lacks some features, like delayed drill-downs. Drill-downs were the main area...

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What do you like most about QlikView?

If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QlikView?

My firm got the product at a cheap price, but in general, I believe that the product is a bit costly.

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What needs improvement with QlikView?

Many of the features in Qlik Sense need to be available and reintroduced in QlikView. I believe many of the features ...

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Comparisons

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Compared 12% of the time

Tableau vs IBM Cognos

Compared 10% of the time

Oracle Hyperion vs IBM Cognos

Compared 8% of the time

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs IBM Cognos

Compared 7% of the time

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Microsoft Power BI vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 29% of the time

Tableau vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 22% of the time

Looker vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 9% of the time

Looker Studio vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 8% of the time

MicroStrategy vs Amazon QuickSight

Compared 2% of the time

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Tableau vs QlikView

Compared 23% of the time

Microsoft Power BI vs QlikView

Compared 13% of the time

TIBCO Spotfire vs QlikView

Compared 6% of the time

SQL Server vs QlikView

Compared 5% of the time

MicroStrategy vs QlikView

Compared 5% of the time

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Also Known As

Cognos, Cognos Analytics, IBM Cognos Analytics

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Overview

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides a wide range of tools to help you analyze your organization's data. IBM Cognos BI allows businesses to monitor events and metrics, create and view business reports, and analyze data to help them make effective business decisions.

IBM Cognos applies techniques to describe, summarize, and compare data, and draw conclusions. This allows users to see trends and discover anomalies or variances that may not be evident by simply reading data. Data sources that contain information from different areas of a business can be stored in separate packages. Users can see only information that they have been granted access to, based on their group or role.

IBM Cognos BI consolidates the following business intelligence functions into a single web-based solution:

IBM Cognos Insight: Create personal and managed workspaces for data analysis. Using these interactive workspaces, you can share insight results with managers. Cognos Insight supports write-back, and you can also use these workspaces to capture and integrate management goals, commitments, and forecasts.
IBM Cognos Workspace: With IBM Cognos Workspace, you can create rich, interactive workspaces using IBM Cognos content as well as data from external sources. You can view and open your favorite workspaces and reports, edit content in your workspaces, and share your workspaces via email.
IBM Cognos Analytics: IBM Cognos Analytics utilizes built-in AI and intuitive searches which helps users to quickly create the visualizations and a wide range of reports. Cognos Analytics provides cognitive and managed self-service, enabling you to gain insights from controlled and trusted data.
IBM Cognos Report Studio and IBM Cognos Query Studio: Easily create structured and query reports. IBM Cognos allows users to create application and report templates. In addition, report authors can reuse report objects to apply filters, fields, and styles to reports. Users can set the language of the user interface and report content according to the user's native language.
IBM Cognos Event Studio: Receive notifications of events that occur within your organization in real time. Event Studio enables the creation of agents that detect the occurrence of business events, failures, or anomalies, based on the change of specific events or data conditions. Notification can be sent via email, publication in the portal, or by triggering reports.
IBM Cognos Connection: This is the Web portal for IBM Cognos BI and is the central area for accessing all the IBM Cognos functions. In the web portal, users can schedule and distribute reports, create tasks, administer the server and the access permissions, and more.

Reviews from Real Users

IBM Cognos stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its powerful analysis tool and its reporting capabilities.

Prasad B., a senior software engineer at a financial services firm, notes, “The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report. We can receive automated reports as well. They are easy to schedule on a weekly or monthly basis. It is very fast. I mean in means of report output, it's very fast compared to the actual clients involved.”

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. Using our cloud-based service you can easily connect to your data, perform advanced analysis, and create stunning visualizations and rich dashboards that can be accessed from any browser or mobile device.

QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy to access database that is intuitive to build and simple to navigate. It is ideal for business owners who wish to improve overall output by creating the most productive system possible.

Sample Customers

More than 23,000 leading organizations across multiple industries use Cognos. Some examples of Cognos customers include BMW Financial Services, Quinte Health Care, Troy Corporation, Michigan State University, and GKN Land System.

MLB Advanced Media, Infor, HotelBeds, Gemini, Jivochat, Edmunds.com

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.

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