We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Oracle OBIEE, and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category."
"When it comes to decision-making, the product is very useful and used in many departments since a lot of people prefer the reports to be generated by IBM Cognos."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"It can be used with any type of data models, such as relational lines and dimensional lines."
"The centralized metadata model component is most valuable."
"Both the vertical and horizontal scalability of the solution is good. In terms of scalability, I would rate this solution a nine out of ten."
"It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources."
"We can see almost-real-time performance in our operations. When there is a problem, it is easy to escalate it to top management and the time for management to make a decision about it is much shorter than it would be using a manual process."
"Ability to create our own reports."
"The main features of this solution are that it is easy to use, intuitive, and user-friendly. When I retrieve the data from the database it is in a very raw form, then when I use the Oracle Report Builder it has advanced intelligence features to allow me to view and make changes to the data easily."
"It doesn't have many frills and is definitely older technology, but it is undeniably a workhorse."
"It has user-friendly data visualization features, supporting our decision-making process with its business intelligence capabilities"
"QlikView is one of the strongest tools, I would say. Also, it has a very vast capability to process the data"
"You can switch views easily."
"The initial setup is not very complex."
"The language support is very good."
"Scripting as per a customer's need, which is a pretty cool feature and not available in other tools."
"This is a very cool application with endless options of creativity and visuals."
"It enables us to configure various elements, such as dashboard settings, including factors like color schemes and other customization parameters."
"They should provide improved visual reporting."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"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."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"The solution's support could be better."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"Compared to Tableau and PowerBI, the IBM interface is easier to use. However, the drag-and-drop functionality isn't as straightforward. Formatting is also more challenging in the cloud than in other applications, like Power BI. Also, if you encounter an issue, it takes more time to resolve it on the formatting side."
"It is very biased towards Oracle infrastructure. One of the major red flags we have at the moment against Oracle is that it doesn't support deployment on other cloud providers. We're quite heavily vested in AWS as our infrastructure, and Oracle is yet to formally support deploying on those virtual infrastructure instances. That's quite disappointing, and it also cuts them out of over 70% of the market."
"Its functionality is lacking."
"OBIEE doesn't have audit logs."
"The performance could improve and in a future release, they could provide more virtualization options."
"Even though we have a feature to enable the physical query to be seen in the log, in case of any issues, it is challenging to debug and see or identify where is the issue. For example, we designed the OBIEE repository and deployed it into the server, and we are now accessing and creating a report. For some reason, if the report is not working as expected, it is very difficult to identify the issue. We have a feature to see the physical query that is being generated in the central OBIEE server. I feel that this feature should have been available at the repository level so that while designing the repository, we can select the presentation columns and the query it is going to create. This will avoid the additional task of deploying a feature into the server and then testing the report. It will also make the implementation process friendly if, while designing the repository, we can see: How is a feature working? Are any of the presentation columns selected? How is the query being generated? Which query is being generated? Are any joints used? What kind of joints are used? Having this kind of information will make Oracle OBIEE more powerful and developer-friendly."
"One feature I would definitely like to see is the ability to provide the in-memory data. Oracle might have some plugins but, as of now, that feature isn't available out-of-the-box. You might have to purchase that feature."
"The complexity of this product means that you need to have a technical team to develop the reports, although this is also true for products like Microsoft BI and Zoho."
"There should be more integration in the solution. For example, there should be one solution with multiple functionalities so that other solutions are not needed. Having one solution with all the needed functionality would be helpful."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"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."
"The user interface is old."
"Better source data connectors."
"Enhancing user-friendliness would be highly beneficial."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"Installation and deployment could be made easier and quicker."
