We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos, Qlik Sense, and Tableau based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"Using custom controls, it is possible to extend the application with even more functionality and make the application intuitive and attractive."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"Set analysis is great for its power user capabilities such as performing an IF on an aggregated column. The ability to create custom coloring expressions based on values is also a good idea although not as easy as I wished it was."
"On the fly questions can be answered with the "Qlik" of a button and drive forward discussions about policy, mission, and goals."
"The product is very stable."
"It has allowed us to manage our staff more effectively and frees up time for our analysts to analyze new problems and opportunities."
"We can easily and quickly deploy new dashboards that reach a wide audience and any changes get reflected almost instantaneously for the users."
"The product responds fast for data analysis."
"Qlik was the first company to implement an in-memory associative analytics engine. This basically means that all data is loaded into memory, but it also means that instead of joining data together, the data is associated together. From the front end, from the UI point of view, data can be joined or included or excluded on the fly. It can be drilled down and drilled through and users can slice and dice it and that type of thing can be done from anywhere in the data to any other place in the data. It doesn't have to be predefined. It doesn't have to have hierarchies or anything like that."
"The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are the integration and panel for reports. The integration is very fast even though we process a lot of information."
"The most valuable features are the visualizations, the way they show the combination charts."
"The product offers an intuitive user interface, detailed screens and widgets, and the absence of data limitations"
"Tableau has improved my organization in a variety of ways, one of its uses being that of data analysis. A feature I have found most valuable is the ease of use and straightforwardness, in addition to the flexibility of Tableau."
"The data visualization piece is most valuable. We do ad-hoc analysis or one-time shot things, but there are things that we have to track every single day. When our management and our customers want to see how things are changing, the dashboarding provides that information. Tableau is key in providing that data on a refresh basis. We use a data blending tool that pumps the data into Tableau, and we just schedule it to run every single day. So, the automation of the data and being able to present it to people who are interested are the most valuable features."
"It is so easy to do a lot of things. There is a lot of flexibility and creativity in this product. In other products, you don't have this flexibility."
"It is very easy to implement and to use."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, our clients enjoy seeing the data on maps, and you do not need to be an expert in SQL to use it."
"The ease of presenting findings is very helpful."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"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."
"It could have more options for themes."
"Cognos charts are not as fast as those of the other tools, even with DQM (dynamic query mode)."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"Tableau and Power BI are faster than Cognos."
"The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"It's going to take 20 to 30 minutes to refresh sometimes."
"Ability for the administrator to approve Community Sheets in the QMC and then move them into base sheets."
"There is a direction currently with feature releases within QLik Sense which are focused towards the SaaS or Cloud offerings of Qlik Sense. This leaves those who have invested heavily in on-premise enterprise deployments in a difficult position to gain the benefits of some powerful new features they have to look to reinvest further towards these SaaS or Cloud deployments or bring in a hybrid model. Qlik provides no real split between what features are available in each of the deployment options."
"More options for the layout."
"Qlik application automation needs additional work and features."
"They should generally focus more on the evolution of current capabilities rather than doing everything but only at 50% effectiveness."
"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."
"Data modelling automation needs improvement."
"Requires a lot of user training."
"Include forecasting on table calculation fields."
"From the developer perspective, the data connection handling the target data set is what most needs to be improved."
"The charting is overly complex in comparison with Power BI's"
"We would like a report model, because currently there is no schema that we can create in the tool."
"The data processing in Tableau is pathetic compared to Qlik."
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"Some of our clients are looking for better UI when using Tableau as they often work with this solution directly."