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FloQast vs IBM Cognos Controller comparison

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Categories and Ranking

FloQast
Ranking in Financial Close Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Cognos Controller
Ranking in Financial Close Software
15th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Financial Close Software category, the mindshare of FloQast is 3.5%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Cognos Controller is 2.9%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Financial Close Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
FloQast3.5%
IBM Cognos Controller2.9%
Other93.6%
Financial Close Software
 

Featured Reviews

Jusitn Jusitn - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Accountant
Month-end close has become faster and team now focuses on higher-value reconciliation work
FloQast has positively impacted our organization by decreasing our month-end close time from 10 days to five days. The reduction in close time has affected my team and the organization overall by making things a lot more clear and streamlined. Our preparer can log in at the beginning of the day, see what is on their to-do list, what is high priority, and at the higher level, it allows us to focus on our value-add tasks and not focus so much on the rudimentary administrative month-end close task of compiling checklists and compiling support, as FloQast more or less automates all that for us.
Pauli Leppänen - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Controller at Eleda Group
A tool useful for areas like reporting and group consolidation
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. My company hasn't faced any issues regarding scalability, which we can't overcome. Regarding the scalability, there is some work required in the product. A user should also have some knowledge to be able to operate the tool's scalability feature. Sometimes, my company has to contact our support partner to figure out how to do certain things in the product. So far, my company hasn't encountered any issues with the tool where we have to deal with volumes even though we have to deal with a lot of leasing contracts, like over 2,000. My company expects the product to offer more scalability. My company has around 70 licenses.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"FloQast has positively impacted my organization by helping our month-end close be more streamlined, and at my previous company, it helped us go from a 15-day close to a 10-day close and then a 6-day close."
"FloQast has positively impacted our organization by decreasing our month-end close time from 10 days to five days."
"FloQast is helping with improving accuracy and timely reports because it's in real-time, which I believe has saved my team considerable time and improved collaboration."
"The month-end close came down from seven to five days since we implemented FloQast and everybody started using it."
"We have gone from manual, line-by-line matching that took days to automated matching in hours in FloQast."
"If there's already a scheduled report and we want a subset of that report, that can also be created. So we do not have to schedule a new report or create a new subscription for that. At this rate, we can create a subset out of one report itself."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a properly working solution... The functionalities and package offered by the product seem to be the right fit for our company."
 

Cons

"FloQast can be improved regarding the data from reconciliation itself. It takes a minute or some time to pull the data from the reconciliation using the hashtag, and that can be improved."
"FloQast could be improved with more robust automations, meaning if a reviewer marks it reviewed in the support, that could be reflected in FloQast as well, and vice versa."
"FloQast is integrated with NetSuite, which is our ERP, but other applications, such as Workday, which we use for payroll reconciliation, are not integrated, and we are still manually exporting the data and mapping it with NetSuite."
"IBM should work on a little flexibility and user-friendliness, in the current interface. It looks very rigid and hard to read. We need to give flexibility to the user in the current situation."
"IFRS 16 functionality is something that is not embedded in IBM Cognos Controller."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The product is expensive, but compared to its other alternatives in the market, I feel that IBM Cognos Controller is a reasonably priced tool."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Real Estate/Law Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
University
7%
Retailer
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with FloQast?
FloQast can be improved regarding the data from reconciliation itself. It takes a minute or some time to pull the data from the reconciliation using the hashtag, and that can be improved. I feel th...
What is your primary use case for FloQast?
My main use case for FloQast is to streamline my close checklist and reconcile all the balance sheet accounts. I use FloQast to streamline my close checklist and reconciling accounts. It contains a...
What advice do you have for others considering FloQast?
I chose a rating of seven out of ten because FloQast is a pretty good system. There are some things that can make it a nine or ten. Regarding FloQast's AI capabilities, I think it is a pretty s...
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