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."IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"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."
"Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly. With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions."
"For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent."
"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."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use."
"It is useful to use a tool like this to have a view of data at a point in time. You can extract and create little data sets that you can store, and then over time, you can have a view for tracking changes. Especially when you work with a relational database or a database that's a production database, the data is dynamic, but if you use QlikView, you can take a snapshot of different datasets. In your own time, you can then get insights and report, build, analyze, and draw whatever you need from the data, which is quite useful."
"The search feature: ability to see the related data."
"Data transforming with scripting, and the associative model that lets users browse data in an easy way, are the most valuable features."
"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."
"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."
"E-T-L, The Extract, Transform, and Loading capabilities of QlikView make it a highly sophisticated self-service business intelligence tool for developers and analysts."
"The integration with Salesforce has helped us gain access to crucial sales data in real-time."
"The scalability is there."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"It could have more options for themes."
"I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality."
"One key area for improvement is the need to improve the self-service nature and functionality of the product in terms of visual analytics."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
"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."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."
"Sometimes the filters are disappearing, and I'm not sure why this is happening."
"QlikView certainly lacks in its ability to share visualizations or create visualizations easily."
"There is no automation or drag and drop functionality."
"Sometimes, dealing with complex reports requires more effort, which could be really improved."
"They should offer the capability to directly access data from SaaS environments, as it would simplify the migration process, and while it may seem like a minor enhancement, it would be beneficial to our clients."
"There is a challenge on the frontend when it comes to browsing data through QlikView, as it isn't entirely compatible with other platforms we use."
"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."
"Syntax editor needs some work, it's frustrating to have valid syntax being flagged as incorrect."
IBM Cognos is ranked 4th in Reporting with 132 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, Amazon QuickSight, SQL Server and MicroStrategy. See our IBM Cognos vs. QlikView report.
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