We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and QlikView based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Reporting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"We use the account statement report. When you use an account in HSBC, you receive various types of accounts, such as the stock market, fixed accounts, credit cards, and business accounts. We can create one consolidated report called CCS support, which includes all these accounts. In that statement, we are consolidating all those accounts."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"Integration with Office can enable the 'download' mode of storytelling."
"Even while a user is using a cube for reporting, there will not be a situation as ' Cube file locked; unable to build or deploy'."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"One of the good thing is that you can integrate different data source technologies. So you can model your environment without having any of our views running."
"The most valuable aspect is its extensive library on Microsoft, providing a robust framework for implementation."
"We can scale it if we need to."
"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"The solution is fast."
"Associative model - no more cubes."
"We use QlikView for its cost-effectiveness and ease of integration with databases."
"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."
"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"The data uploads that we do, such as Excel files, have a lot of restrictions. If we can make it a bit more user-friendly, allowing us to have more flexibility it would be a great help."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"I would like to see more advanced features from Qlik Sense integrated into QlikView to keep it competitive and up-to-date."
"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."
"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."
"Improvement in collaboration, between that and publishing of reports and publishing of models."
"Needs improvement with UI transparency."
"More/newer visualisation components need to be added."
"I would want them to have more options as a user. It would be nice for them to create their own dashboards and add fields."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 131 reviews while QlikView is ranked 5th in Reporting with 158 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while QlikView is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". On the other hand, the top reviewer of QlikView writes "Useful for data visualization and business intelligence". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas QlikView is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server, Amazon QuickSight and MicroStrategy. See our IBM Cognos vs. QlikView report.
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