We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"Report Studio: This is the most powerful and sophisticated tool for professional reporting."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"The correlation analysis is excellent. It's one of the best that I have used to date."
"Self-service is possible through the use of dashboards, which are also very intuitive. Stories can be used to pin snapshots, tell the story for meetings, etc."
"There is a lot of help and documentation on the Internet, so no special training is needed to use the source code."
"PowerBI – Self-service BI."
"I have found the quick reporting and the conductivity with all the data sources valuable."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"I liked that Microsoft Power BI handles a large amount of data. I can handle hundreds of rows from Postgres in a few minutes. I also like how it detects the relationship between the tables without explicitly saying that. It just detects the relationship automatically. That made it easier to work with the data."
"I like how the Query Editor lets me manipulate the data, and the available visuals are good. You can do everything using the UI."
"Microsoft BI's most valuable features are the user interface, which is easy to use and light."
"Power BI stands out because it provides considerable flexibility in creating reports, dashboards, and various types of analytics to meet those dynamic requirements. It is lightweight and easy to use with good support."
"The visualizations are good and keep improving."
"We have had an easy time supplying content to our customers."
"Self-service use of the desktop version with the ability to port applications into the server environment."
"End users can adjust their analysis with a few simple clicks."
"There are a lot of features available in this solution, it has been very easy to use. We have found it to be less complex and user-friendly compared to other solutions we have used."
"It offers good control. Loading the logs is also a good thing."
"For a deployment scenario, Qlik Sense is also very easy to use. I can start development from any platform, on-premise or cloud, and continue from where I left off."
"Qlik Sense has helped us in getting all inventory details in real-time ready for our sales reps to order and fulfill our inventory based on demand."
"The charts and graphics are weak."
"It could have more options for themes."
"I would like to see is more easy building, movement in the reports, and dashboard functionality within reporting. Overall more simple elements within reports. If the elements are simple then you don't have to render a full page, but you can move separate parts in the page."
"Data modeling needs to be improved. We use the ETL process, and when we get errors, we then need to identify which structural change is required. The error messaging should be better. They should be descriptive rather than semantic."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"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."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"They were lacking in the initial phases of development in the area of big data, and they still need to improve that aspect of the product."
"Microsoft is behind IBM when it comes to security features."
"I would like Microsoft to include some inbuilt machine learning so that it becomes point-and-click, rather than us developing models out of API and BI connecting to that and getting the results. That process gets in the way of continuity."
"It should be more user-friendly. There are very small or tiny icons that you need to move very carefully. If you go a little bit up and down, some of the values change. Its user interface should be improved. It should be like Tableau. Its performance is also slow and should be improved. I definitely feel some sort of speed issues with Power BI. The integration of Excel with Power BI would also be good."
"I have been doing trial and error to figuring out how to do the data analyzing and modeling. There could be some improvement to simplify it."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"It has come a long way in terms of how it was working two years ago, but there are some things that you still can't do with it. For example, permission management and user access management are still a bit limited. It is basically based on the idea that everybody from the organization can see everything or limit the type of data they can see. If I want you to see only one report and the other guy to see another report, I can't do it. There should be a better way to manage permissions and users. It should also support external users much better."
"I would like to see a feature that connects with a Machine Learning platform like a RapidMiner or Azure Machine Learning Studio. It would be great to have a Machine Learning application link to connect."
"The integration with third-party products could be more stable."
"Error handling is an area that needs to be improved."
"There is no downside."
"We have faced some issues with NPrinting, so I feel there is some improvement needed such that it would allow the use of variables and calculative fields from Qlik."
"The product could be improved by implementing a user-feedback ranking system."
"The security rules should be made easier to use."
"If a team wants to keep track of source code changes, there is not an out-of-the-box solution for it."
"We need more types of visualizations."
"I would like to see more types of visual elements and better configuration options for additional flexibility when developing charts."
