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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cognos Analytics

    Score6.8 out of 10
    		N/AIBM Cognos is a full-featured business intelligence suite by IBM, designed for larger deployments. It comprises Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search, and dashboards.

    $10

    per month per user

    MicroStrategy Analytics

    Score8.5 out of 10
    		N/AMicroStrategy Analytics is an enterprise business analytics and mobility platform. Key features include automatic big data analysis and reporting, data discovery and visualization, digital security credentials, and support for mobile devices.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsMicroStrategy Analytics
    Editions & Modules
    On Demand - Standard
    USD 10.00
    per month per user
    On Demand - Premium
    USD 42.40
    per month per user
    On Demand - Standard
    USD 10.60
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsMicroStrategy Analytics
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Must contact sales team for pricing information.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsMicroStrategy Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Gonzalo Angeleri
    Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager in Information Technology at GRUPO DATCO (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees)
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    In my opinion, MicroStrategy has a better product architecture. As a reporting and analysis platform, MicroStrategy allows developers to build reports and dashboards using an integrated development tool for all capabilities. It also has a more powerful and easy to use …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    IBM Cognos Analytics is our legacy BI solution. It hadn't stacked up well against its modern contemporaries. We are thinking of replacing it with Microsoft BI.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    We have alot of resources already invested in Cognos and it would be a humongous effort to migrate. CA is more inline with Power BI and Tableau now that there are dashboarding capabilities.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is an enterprise ready tool and could provide end to end functionality expected from a BI tool. Provides integration with custom applications as well as provides not just high end visualizations that Tableau or PowerBI provides but also the very …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    Cost wise, the above products are less expensive and offer tons more upfront, but you will pay for it on the back end. They have vendor limitations and their support mechanism was inline for what we wanted.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    Cognos is a more stable tool, which is integrated to many others. It has a lot of experience in the market. Your support is very good. Many facilities in Argentina
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    There are a number of reporting systems, but these other systems are really data visualization systems that lack the ability deliver information through an enterprise on their own. IBM Cognos is well suited to be the delivery system for an enterprise's analytics and the …
    Incentivized
    Gos Yao
    Professional Service Consultant in Professional Services at NETSCOUT (Computer Networking, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    IBM Cognos stood out presumably because of the target market - we have been doing it in telco market so IBM Cognos could be a good fit due to its powerful capacity to establish the reports and data sets.
    Incentivized
    Jonathan Kyrlach
    Business Intelligence Architect in Information Technology at Everything But The House (Consumer Goods, 201-500 employees)
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    I didn't select IBM Cognos, I only used it in situations where it had already been selected. Cognos was better for a long time than most of the traditional BI vendors. And their modeling is still second to none.
    Incentivized
    Martin Rivera
    Solutions Architect, IBM Business Analytics in Professional Services at Perficient (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose IBM Cognos Analytics
    I myself have been exposed to Microstrategy, Business Objects, and Microsoft BI. While I do find strenghts in all of these tools, one area I do believe that IBM Cognos has distinct advantages when deployed in an environment where integration with other IBM products (AIX, DB2, …
    Incentivized
    MicroStrategy
    Dharmesh Shah
    Associate Principal in Information Technology at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose MicroStrategy Analytics
    • Standardized & optimized data repository resulting in better pricing strategy and increase in revenue & profitability
    • Better decision making capability and efficient on-boarding of end users through a near real-time reporting platform
    • Four major investor segmentation reports for …
    Incentivized
    Vineet Rai
    BI Architect in Engineering at American Express (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose MicroStrategy Analytics
    Microstrategy integrated architecture and ease of deployment.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose MicroStrategy Analytics
    Speed, visually, and sales process - MicroStrategy outranked Cognos by far.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose MicroStrategy Analytics
    Tableau is probably MicroStrategy Analytic's biggest competitor I've noticed over time, and I'm not sure why. Tableau only covers visualizations independently for each business user, which then creates the issues of every employee creating their own version of the data, and …
    Incentivized
    Paul Campbell
    Professional Services Engineer in Professional Services at Chartwise Medical Systems (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
    Chose MicroStrategy Analytics
    I have only used SSRS 2012 and MicroStrategy 9.4.1 as reporting tools. SSRS is not as fully featured as MicroStrategy and does not have the same level of quality in the delivery of expert reports. MicroStrategy meets many more needs out of the box and allows for many more …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose MicroStrategy Analytics
    Oracle OBIEE, IBM Cognos, QlikView - better integrated, single metadata, broader functionality
    Wm. Dexter Jones
    Manager, Business Intelligence and Reporting Services in Information Technology at IgnitionOne (Internet, 201-500 employees)
    Chose MicroStrategy Analytics
    As a whole Microstrategy is good in more areas than the others are great in specific ones. It is probably not #1 in any particular category of BI Tool evaluations, but they are #2 or #3 in more categories than the all of the other tools we have evaluated. We selected …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsMicroStrategy Analytics
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of IBM Cognos Analytics and MicroStrategy Analytics
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.0
    106 Ratings
    MicroStrategy Analytics
    10.0
    26 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.896 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.3104 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.0101 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of IBM Cognos Analytics and MicroStrategy Analytics
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.4
    108 Ratings
    MicroStrategy Analytics
    10.0
    24 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.3106 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.1107 Ratings10.024 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.874 Ratings10.016 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.4103 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of IBM Cognos Analytics and MicroStrategy Analytics
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.8
    107 Ratings
    MicroStrategy Analytics
    10.0
    23 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.327 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.0101 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.626 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling7.0104 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.112 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of IBM Cognos Analytics and MicroStrategy Analytics
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    6.7
    98 Ratings
    MicroStrategy Analytics
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.993 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.189 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.486 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.624 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of IBM Cognos Analytics and MicroStrategy Analytics
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.4
    103 Ratings
    MicroStrategy Analytics
    10.0
    21 Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.0100 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.899 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)6.199 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.328 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.782 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of IBM Cognos Analytics and MicroStrategy Analytics
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.6
    84 Ratings
    MicroStrategy Analytics
    9.7
    19 Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.678 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.968 Ratings10.015 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.074 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of IBM Cognos Analytics and MicroStrategy Analytics
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.7
    65 Ratings
    MicroStrategy Analytics
    10.0
    8 Ratings
    REST API7.562 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Javascript API8.660 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    iFrames8.39 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Java API6.911 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.110 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.87 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsMicroStrategy Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (131 ratings)
    10.0
    (47 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (27 ratings)
    9.9
    (27 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    3.2
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    2.2
    (5 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (40 ratings)
    8.8
    (18 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)