Looker Studio vs QlikView comparison

Google and Qlik are both solutions in the Reporting category. Google is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.2, while Qlik is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. Google holds a 2.4% mindshare in RT, compared to Qlik’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Qlik users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Looker Studio 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.

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IBM Cognos

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of IBM Cognos is 4.8%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Looker Studio is 2.4%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of QlikView is 3.3%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Reporting

Featured Reviews

Hardik Parashar

Associate Data Engineer at Digit Insurance

Feb 6, 2022

Straightforward to set up with good dashboards but there are storage issues

I don't manage much in the backend, however, we see a lot of issues in Cognos in terms of storage as well as a lot of failures on a daily basis. There are separate people managing all these things. It's my understanding that these issues are very frequent. There are some gaps in Cognos. For example, our data volume is huge. Whenever our users try to download reports, the main user used to avoid data extraction requests so that users could actually go into Cognos and download the reports. When it comes to the size, long reports take a lot of time and the performance is not that so good. Finance or marketing reports, for example, are longer and take longer to download. When it comes to analytics, we'd like to see some manual data capabilities. The scalability could be better. They should provide improved visual reporting.

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JonathanPowell

Cloud Data Architect at Burwood Group

Aug 14, 2019

Easy to use and offers a plethora of query sources

We primarily use this solution for business reporting This has improved our organization by allowing people to see their data and develop visualizations themselves. The most valuable features of this solution are its ease of use and the plethora of query sources. There is a significant degree…

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it_user257343

Business Intelligence Latin America Leader at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 9, 2016

Once you select data on the dashboard, it highlights the unavailable data in order to show that those combinations don’t exist or aren’t possible.

Once you select any data on the dashboard, QlikView highlights the unavailable data in grey in order to show to users that those combinations don’t exist or aren’t possible. Filters are not local. Once you filter something, the standard is to apply the filter to all tabs available in the dashboard…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."

"We use IBM Cognos for enterprise analytics and reporting."

"The three IBM Cognos features I find the most valuable are Dynamic Cubes, PowerPlay, and Watson."

"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."

"The tool can join data from different sources, write back to databases, generate alerts, and be customized to our preferences. It's an enterprise BI tool that's more powerful than just visualization tools like Power BI or Tableau."

"Dashboarding, reporting, and ad hoc reporting are the valuable features of IBM Cognos."

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"I am impressed with the tool's scheduling mechanism, refresh mechanism, and different types of charts."

"The solution is free so that is a good feature."

"The product's initial setup phase is very simple."

"Data Studio integrates seamlessly with other Google products, and we can use it with other APIs if we like."

"The best thing about the tool is that it allows you to share information easily and dashboards with colleagues and teammates because it's all online. No matter where you are, as long as you have the Internet, you can connect and use these dashboards. Google made good documentation for this tool. There are many examples of how to use and create dashboards and videos on YouTube. So, I think it's easy to learn."

"Valuable features include advanced integrated analysis and easy implementation."

"The ability to integrate with a great variety of data sources."

"I find it favorable regarding speed of development, ease of building, and flexibility."

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"QlikView is a scalable solution that multiple users can easily use."

"Its ability to build, very quickly, very complicated models."

"The solution is fast."

"It's incredibly fast and can handle large volumes of data without slowing down our operations."

"The user interface and dashboards are very good."

"Once you open it up, you see everything that you can do."

"Our Qlikview applications help us to get a good idea of our Client Base Performance and assist us in the decision making for Seasonal Specials. On the other hand QlikView helps us to get a grasp on our Suppliers and helps us to negotiate pricing with them."

"The in-memory feature gives us better insight. It's also easy to drill down into the information and select information."

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Cons

"They were lacking in the initial phases of development in the area of big data, and they still need to improve that aspect of the product."

"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."

"It would be better if it is was easier to implement without extensive training for it."

"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."

"It is a costly product; it is comparatively expensive."

"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 problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."

"They should provide improved visual reporting."

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"It's not yet a replacement for a complete BI tool."

"There is a significant degree of sophistication required to compete with Tableau or Cognos."

"The tool has a lot of room for improvement. It's not very professional and allows for only simple tasks like indicating KPIs or quick calculations. It lacks a good calculation-based language like Power BI's DAX, making it less suitable for professional use. Additionally, the variety of visualization tools is limited, and customization options are restricted."

"The tool should come up with data modeling layer features that are present in other products like Power BI."

"The challenges with Google Data Studio are associated with the security part, making it an area where improvements are required."

"Stability and scalability an be improved for a full ten."

"There are issues with integration and I encountered limits and warnings, especially with my pivot table size."

"Insisting on forums, blogs and community outreach in communications, and posting videos on an established calendar would be useful."

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"It needs work with visualization."

"There could be a feature to analyze the sales and accounting data of the client."

"The user interface and ease of use takes a bit of a learning curve to pick up."

"For me, it is important to have a mix, what is the "view" and what is the "sense", Qlik Sense. They have two tools, but for me it is important to have only one tool, which combines the functions that we have from one side and the other side."

"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."

"The pricing is high."

"They could provide a user-friendly analysis process rather than specialized IT resource code."

"Needs improvement with UI transparency."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"IBM Cognos is priced reasonable. However, it is more expensive than Power BI and Tableau."

"There is a standard license required to use this solution. There are some additional tools but I am not sure if they are an extra cost."

"IBM Cognos price is on the higher side of the spectrum. However, with the features that it brings, such as correlation analysis, it's worth the money. They should look at the pricing more clearly because it's a little on the higher side."

"On a scale from one to ten where one is low pricing and ten is high pricing, I would rate this solution at eight."

"It is averagely priced."

"My company uses IBM Cognos with another IBM product, so I think only one license is used."

"It's more expensive than similar solutions like Tableau and Power BI."

"Cognos is super expensive compared to Tableau ($70/month) and Power BI ($20/month) — I think Cognos is roughly $200 a month."

More IBM Cognos pricing and cost advice

"I think the tool is cheap because you don't need to pay anything for using the tool. However, when connecting and analyzing other data sources, you should consider where to analyze this information because Google Data Studio doesn't handle much data well. You must also consider how you will connect this data to it. In this case, you might need to hire DevOps or a data team to help with these issues."

"The solution is free but the Google Looker is expensive."

"The product is available for free."

"The cost is quite affordable based on feature analysis."

"The tool is free."

"The pricing is too high compared to the other solutions on the market."

"Qlik is fairly high in terms of pricing."

"It is not very expensive. I think it it is on par with other similar products on the market."

"Pricing is a bit too high and I think licenses should be unlimited."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one being low price and ten being high price, I rate pricing a four."

"QlikView is a reasonably priced solution."

"QlikView pricing and licensing is on the high side for a small sized company, but it's competitive among its peers."

"The setup costs for QlikView are fair as are the yearly maintenance fees. The licensing becomes a bit more expensive and requires some planning for onboarding."

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Comparison Review

it_user79932

Senior Manager - BI Head at NVidia

Feb 4, 2015

Comparison of SAP BO, Tableau, QlikView, Cognos, Microsoft, OBIEE and Pentaho

1. SAP BO/BI Enterprise scalability Security Ease of use Semantic layer 2. Tableau Visualization Data discovery Turnaround time 3. IBM Cognos Enterprise scalability Security In-memory feature 4. MS BI - Flexibility 5. Pentaho - Open source but still enterprise grade 6. QlikView Data…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

59%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Seeking lightweight open source BI software

It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement. Some great tools in the market are Qlik ...

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What do you like most about IBM Cognos?

The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools.

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What needs improvement with IBM Cognos?

The tool does not have much documentation on the internet. It is not easy to resolve issues by finding the reason for...

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What do you like most about Google Data Studio?

The company dashboard is useful because we could share it via a link as a reminder for everyone to check it weekly. W...

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What needs improvement with Google Data Studio?

The tool has a lot of room for improvement. It's not very professional and allows for only simple tasks like indicati...

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What is your primary use case for Google Data Studio?

The solution is a visualization tool that helps to make dashboards.

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What do you like most about QlikView?

If you correctly use the product for your use cases, it provides value for money.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QlikView?

The platform's pricing is considered quite expensive, particularly given the dollar-based pricing.

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What needs improvement with QlikView?

The product's visual capabilities could be improved. The graphs and visualizations are not as aesthetic or easy to cr...

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Comparisons

Microsoft Power BI vs IBM Cognos

Compared 12% of the time

Tableau vs IBM Cognos

Compared 10% of the time

Oracle Hyperion vs IBM Cognos

Compared 10% of the time

Amazon QuickSight vs IBM Cognos

Compared 8% of the time

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform vs IBM Cognos

Compared 7% of the time

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Amazon QuickSight vs Looker Studio

Compared 40% of the time

Microsoft Power BI vs Looker Studio

Compared 21% of the time

Tableau vs Looker Studio

Compared 11% of the time

Looker vs Looker Studio

Compared 8% of the time

RStudio Connect vs Looker Studio

Compared 2% of the time

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Tableau vs QlikView

Compared 26% of the time

Microsoft Power BI vs QlikView

Compared 13% of the time

Amazon QuickSight vs QlikView

Compared 12% of the time

MicroStrategy vs QlikView

Compared 5% of the time

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services vs QlikView

Compared 4% of the time

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Product Reports

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IBM Cognos

August 2024

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Looker Studio

August 2024

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QlikView

August 2024

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Also Known As

Cognos, Cognos Analytics, IBM Cognos Analytics

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Overview

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides a wide range of tools to help you analyze your organization's data. IBM Cognos BI allows businesses to monitor events and metrics, create and view business reports, and analyze data to help them make effective business decisions.

IBM Cognos applies techniques to describe, summarize, and compare data, and draw conclusions. This allows users to see trends and discover anomalies or variances that may not be evident by simply reading data. Data sources that contain information from different areas of a business can be stored in separate packages. Users can see only information that they have been granted access to, based on their group or role.

IBM Cognos BI consolidates the following business intelligence functions into a single web-based solution:

IBM Cognos Insight: Create personal and managed workspaces for data analysis. Using these interactive workspaces, you can share insight results with managers. Cognos Insight supports write-back, and you can also use these workspaces to capture and integrate management goals, commitments, and forecasts.
IBM Cognos Workspace: With IBM Cognos Workspace, you can create rich, interactive workspaces using IBM Cognos content as well as data from external sources. You can view and open your favorite workspaces and reports, edit content in your workspaces, and share your workspaces via email.
IBM Cognos Analytics: IBM Cognos Analytics utilizes built-in AI and intuitive searches which helps users to quickly create the visualizations and a wide range of reports. Cognos Analytics provides cognitive and managed self-service, enabling you to gain insights from controlled and trusted data.
IBM Cognos Report Studio and IBM Cognos Query Studio: Easily create structured and query reports. IBM Cognos allows users to create application and report templates. In addition, report authors can reuse report objects to apply filters, fields, and styles to reports. Users can set the language of the user interface and report content according to the user's native language.
IBM Cognos Event Studio: Receive notifications of events that occur within your organization in real time. Event Studio enables the creation of agents that detect the occurrence of business events, failures, or anomalies, based on the change of specific events or data conditions. Notification can be sent via email, publication in the portal, or by triggering reports.
IBM Cognos Connection: This is the Web portal for IBM Cognos BI and is the central area for accessing all the IBM Cognos functions. In the web portal, users can schedule and distribute reports, create tasks, administer the server and the access permissions, and more.

Reviews from Real Users

IBM Cognos stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its powerful analysis tool and its reporting capabilities.

Prasad B., a senior software engineer at a financial services firm, notes, “The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report. We can receive automated reports as well. They are easy to schedule on a weekly or monthly basis. It is very fast. I mean in means of report output, it's very fast compared to the actual clients involved.”

Google Looker Studio is a free tool designed to help users create visually appealing reports and dashboards, making data easier to understand. It allows you to connect to various data sources such as Google Analytics, Facebook Ads, and spreadsheets. With Looker Studio, you can create charts and graphs to showcase trends and comparisons, build comprehensive dashboards that provide an overview of your data, and customize reports to match your brand or preferences. Additionally, you can share your reports online or export them as PDFs for wider distribution.

QlikView is a Business Intelligence tool that allows you to keep tabs on all of your business-related information in a clean, clear, and easy to access database that is intuitive to build and simple to navigate. It is ideal for business owners who wish to improve overall output by creating the most productive system possible.

Sample Customers

More than 23,000 leading organizations across multiple industries use Cognos. Some examples of Cognos customers include BMW Financial Services, Quinte Health Care, Troy Corporation, Michigan State University, and GKN Land System.

Genesys, Shueisha

Canon, Gatorade, Amcor, Panasonic, Fila, Cambridge University Hospitals, Global Retail Bank, North Yorkshire Police department, Lanoo Group Publishers, and AonGroep Nederland.

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