We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."
"It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."
"One of the strong suits of Cognos is its robust corporate reporting capability."
"Many of my customers already use Microsoft products like Office 365, so I often propose Microsoft Power BI because it integrates well with all the standard Microsoft business tools. And it's the quickest tool to implement and start using daily."
"We are able to collaborate on things and get insightful data visualizations."
"Microsoft BI is easy to use and to design. I found Microsoft BI a lot easier than Tableau."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It's quite flexible, and it's easy to create reports using this system. It is very graphic and very user friendly."
"The product can go easily go and extract data and it can put it into any format."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"We can scale it if we need to."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to view the entire data available for analysis."
"I had the option to prepare data myself instead of always having to depend on the data team."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"The solution's support could be better."
"IBM Cognos's error messages seem to be a bit ambiguous. An error will be encountered and a message will be sent out very ambiguous and after investigating the error message it could be any number of issues. There was never a direct answer to the question or a direct answer to the error messages. Sometimes it would be a generic error message for 21 different solutions. It wasn't very specific, which required a lot of digging around and trial and error trying to fix the problem. The messaging in their error messaging is something needing improvement."
"There are many problems with the product's stability part, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"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."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"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."
"We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required."
"It seems that the solution could use more analytics to help users draw more contextual business insights. Right now, you need other solutions for that."
"The solution is somewhat costly in comparison with MSBI tools."
"It is definitely a wonderful analytics tool. However, database ETL, data integration functionality would be absolutely perfect in many cases. Currently, it doesn't get the job done and we need to extract, transform, and load the data from faulty data sets into something more suitable for the deployment of the analytics tool."
"The interface could be improved."
"I would like to see the product offer more graphics to impact different audiences."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"Their technical support can be better. They normally take too long to escalate and resolve a case."
"Adding paginated reports to this tool could be of great help for users who want to move away from SSRS."
"It would be nice if QlikView could be plugged in into the company's website or an online portal such as QlikSense is capable of. There are ways around but it takes enormous time to develop."
"The pricing is high."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"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."
"Better source data connectors."
"It is really old. We are moving towards converting everything into a Power BI environment. We want to have a self-service type of BI environment where different levels of users in organizations can log onto a portal and retrieve the data they need or get the necessary insights for decision-making that's important for them or their business unit. They have built a new version of QlikView called QlikSense, which probably competes with newer BI tools, such as Power BI, but they are far behind. That's why we are moving towards a newer tool that's easier to use and has more visualizations to represent the data."
