IBM Cognos Analytics vs. Qlik Analytics Platform

IBM Cognos Analytics

584 Reviews and Ratings

Qlik Analytics Platform

67 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cognos Analytics	Score6.9 out of 10	N/A	IBM 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
Qlik Analytics Platform	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	The Qlik Analytics Platform (QAP) is a developer platform for building custom analytic applications based on rich frontend and backend APIs. It gives full API access to the Qlik associative engine to build rich data-driven analytic applications, for example when building web applications for extranet and Internet deployment.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Cognos Analytics

Qlik Analytics Platform

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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Pricing Offerings
IBM Cognos Analytics	Qlik Analytics Platform
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IBM Cognos Analytics	Qlik Analytics Platform
Considered Both Products	IBM Vinit Mahiwal BI Developer at Shorewise (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Cognos Analytics It was due to trust in IBM. Very good support provide by IBM. Response time is pretty good Product is proven in past & well robust feature Many good enterprises have used this product Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cognos Analytics IBM Cognos Analytics is a relatively late entrant in the BI space - dominated by Tableau and Qlik. it works well for 80% of our use cases and is easy for a non technical user to start using. Also due to enterprise licensing, its easier to distribute internally. Incentivized Helpful? Nicholas Maeda Senior Software Engineer Team Lead in Information Technology at SafetyCulture (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose IBM Cognos Analytics Unlike traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools, IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is geared toward enabling people from all walks of business to analyze information in an engaging way. Incentivized Helpful? Traylor Haney Agile PM in Information Technology at Cynopsis Solutions (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cognos Analytics Both are business intelligence solutions with combined features of business intelligence, data discovery, and analytics that help us collect data, work with it to perform analysis, and interactive reports. Incentivized Helpful?	Qlik No answer on this topic
	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 Analytics

Qlik Analytics Platform

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Qlik Analytics Platform
Feature	IBM Cognos Analytics 7.0 106 Ratings	Qlik Analytics Platform - Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	6.896 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	7.3104 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	7.0101 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Qlik Analytics Platform
Feature	IBM Cognos Analytics 7.4 108 Ratings	Qlik Analytics Platform - Ratings
Drill-down analysis	7.3106 Ratings	00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	7.1107 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	7.874 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	7.4103 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Qlik Analytics Platform
Feature	IBM Cognos Analytics 7.8 107 Ratings	Qlik Analytics Platform - Ratings
Publish to Web	8.327 Ratings	00 Ratings
Publish to PDF	7.0101 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report Versioning	8.626 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	7.0104 Ratings	00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	8.112 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Qlik Analytics Platform
Feature	IBM Cognos Analytics 6.7 98 Ratings	Qlik Analytics Platform - Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	6.893 Ratings	00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	7.189 Ratings	00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	6.486 Ratings	00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	6.624 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Qlik Analytics Platform
Feature	IBM Cognos Analytics 7.4 103 Ratings	Qlik Analytics Platform - Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	8.0100 Ratings	00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	7.899 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	6.199 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	7.328 Ratings	00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	7.782 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Qlik Analytics Platform
Feature	IBM Cognos Analytics 7.6 84 Ratings	Qlik Analytics Platform - Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.678 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Application	7.968 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	8.974 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of IBM Cognos Analytics and Qlik Analytics Platform
Feature	IBM Cognos Analytics 7.7 65 Ratings	Qlik Analytics Platform - Ratings
REST API	7.562 Ratings	00 Ratings
Javascript API	8.560 Ratings	00 Ratings
iFrames	8.39 Ratings	00 Ratings
Java API	6.911 Ratings	00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	7.110 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	7.87 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	IBM Cognos Analytics	Qlik Analytics Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	7.2 (131 ratings)	8.6 (6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (27 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.1 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	8.6 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (8 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.7 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.0 (7 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	7.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.6 (40 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sources	8.3 (40 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	6.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.2 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)