QlikView Vs Cognos Comparison

# Product Cognos BI Series Qlik View

A Product

QlikView: Worlds
Fastest Growing BI tool.
1 Product Cognos BI Series With 11.43 customers
being added every
working day.

2 Vendor Cognos Qliktech

Qlikview is a IN-memory
based BI tool which can
be deployed in a weeks
time. It comes at HALF
the TCO and delivers
TWICE the value
compared to any OLAP
based BI Solution In
QUARTER of the TIME

3 Website www.cognos.com www.qlikview.com

C Applications

1 Business intelligence Yes Qlikview is a single

integrted tool for ETL,
2 Multi dimensional view DW, Multi Dmentional
Analysis,
3 Strategic planning Yes Dashboarding,
Reporting, as per the
Butler group user takes
4 Budgeting Yes
couple of hours training
instead of weeks taken
5 Forecasting Yes by traditional OLAP
based tools
6 Consolidation Yes
7 Scorecarding Yes

D Hardware and Licenses

NOT REQUIRED, One of

the the major advantage
of usinq Qlikview is, it
does not require
database which saves
money and very wel
Warehousing is (Mandate/
1 Mandate skilled human resource.
Optional)
With no datawarehouse
required Qlikview can
be impleted in a couple
of weeks saving a lot of
TIME, MONEY AND
RESOURCES.

2 Server Licenses(Named/CPU) Named Named

User Licenses
3 Named Named
(Name/Concorent/Unlimited)

4 Web Users Unlimited User licence

5 If preparatory Database specify No NO: Qlikview uses its

(Technical and Methodology) integrated Robust ETL
to Extarct data from
multiple data sources
and forms a data
repository using its
patented Technology
(AQL: Associative
Query Logic) This
technology overcomes
the efforts and time
required to build
datawarehouse,
normalization, schema
writing, creation of
cubes. And Empowers
the customer to be
independent of the
 vendor to creat and use
analyitcs

E Technology

Any OLEDB, ODBC

complaing which
covers althe datbase in
the world today + FLAT
1 Supported database
FILE, WEBFILE. TEXT
FILE DELIMITED FILE.
ALSO WORKS WITH
SYBASE

Microsoft SQL Server Y Y

Oracle Y Y

Pervasive SQL Y Y

IBM DB2 Y Y

Informix Y Y

Access Y Y

FoxPro Y Y

Progress Y Y

MySQL Y Y

2 Supported networks

Microsoft Y YES

Y TO CONNECT TO THE
Linux Y
DATABASE
 Y TO CONNECT TO THE
Unix Y
DATABASE

Y TO CONNECT TO THE
AIX Y
DATABASE

Y TO CONNECT TO THE
Novell Netware Y
DATABASE

Y TO CONNECT TO THE
IBM AS/400 (OS/400) Y
DATABASE

NO THIRD PARTY
DEVELOPMENT TOOL
REQUIRED. THE
CUSTOMER BECOMES
Development tools used to Visual Basic,
3 VENDOR
build application WSDL, SOAP, XML
INDEPENDENT FOR
ANY NEW
APPLICATION/
CHANGES REQUIRED

Report writer used - which NO THIRD PARTY TOOL

4 Cognos ReportNet
one(s)? REQUIRED

NOT REQUIRED: QLIK

VIEW HAS ITS OWN
ROBUST ETL
INTEGRATED AS A
QLIKVIEW SUITE. THE
ETL IS WIZARD DRIVEN
All Major ETL Tools CAN BE LEARNT IN A
Data Extract Transform Load
5 (Cognos FEW DAYS AND
(ETL) tools - which one(s)?
DecisionStream) OPERATED BY
CUSTOMER HENCE
EMPOWER THEMSLEF
TO CREAT OWN
APPLICATION AS AND
WHEN DEMAND
ARISES

6 Cubes supported - which All Major OLAP IN ADDITION TO ITS

one(s)? (Cognos OWN DATA
PowerPlay) REPOSITORY
 QLIKVIEW SUPPORTS
ALL MAJOR OLAP
CUBES

ALL ODBC COMPLAINT

DATABASE(all the
current database in the
Existing integration to SAP, PeopleSoft,
market) IRRISPECTIVE
7 accounting and ERP systems - JDE, Oracle, Great
OF THEIR FRONT END,
which systems? Plains
SAP USING A SAP
CERTIFIED
CONNECTOR

BY MEANS OF THE
Existing integration to customer GLOBAL STANDARD
8 relationship management Siebel, Onyx ODBC, OLEDB
systems - which systems? CONNECTIONS (all
major crm system)

BY MEANS OF THE
Open system, great WORLD STANDARD
Existing integration to payroll
9 flexibility against all ODBC, OLEDB
systems - which systems?
data sources. CONNECTIONS( all
major payroll system)

BY MEANS OF THE
WORLD STANDARD
Existing integration to HRMS
10 as above ODBC, OLEDB
systems - which systems?
CONNECTIONS (all
major hr system)

F Features

1 Analytic functionality Yes YES

2 Bubble up exceptions Yes This feature is better

handeled where the
exceptions are
managed at the lower
level and not poped to
the upper layer and
confuse the user.
However all precautions
 are taken to handle the
exceptions eficiently.

3 Drill down Yes YES

DRILL DOWN TO THE

TRANSACTIOANL
LEVEL. AS AGAINST TO
4 Drill through to source data Yes
THE AGREGATED DATA
IN CASE OF OLAP
BASED APPLICATIONS

5 Ranking Yes YES

6 Sorting Yes YES

7 Restrict results by date range Yes YES

8 Includes dashboard YES

YES AS MANY YEARS

Time trending (for example,
9 Yes AS THE DATABASE
over 12 months)
HOLDS

Pareto filtering (automatically

groups the categories that
10 Yes YES
amount to less than 20% of a
row or column total into "other")

11 Calculations Yes YES

12 Counts Yes YES

13 Percentage of total Yes YES

14 Allocations Yes YES

15 Total and Sub-total Yes YES

16 Create OLAP cubes Yes NOT REQUIRED

17 Data extraction and Yes INTEGRATED

 transformation tools

18 Incremental extraction Yes YES

Impact analysis - objects

19 Yes YES
impacted by change

Can schedule process to run

20 Yes YES
overnight

21 Formatting Yes YES

22 By dimension Yes YES: N DIMENTION

23 By level Yes YES

24 By cell Yes YES

ZERO/NULL FIELD
25 Zero-row suppression Yes
SUPPRESSION

Conditional formatting by cell,

26 e.g., highlight cells below Yes YES
threshold

Returns text (e.g., if value > 90,

27 Yes YES
returns "excellent")

UNICODE: CAN BE
28 French version Yes IMPLEMENTED IN ANY
LANGUAGE

29 Screens Yes YES

30 Reports Yes YES

31 Documentation Yes YES

32 Metadata Yes YES

33 OLAP functionality Yes NOT REQUIRED

34 Skip missing levels - support Yes YES

 ragged dimensions

35 Write back Yes NO

36 With audit trail Yes YES

37 Includes charting tools Yes YES

38 Access multiple cubes at a time Yes YES

39 Excel client Yes YES

40 Internet Explorer client Yes YES

41 Netscape client Yes FireFox

42 Geographical representation Yes YES

43 Drag and drop Yes YES

CUBES NOT REQUIRED

44 Attach notes to cube Yes SAVES TIME AND
MONEY

CELLS NOT REQUIRED

45 Attach notes to cells Yes SAVES TIME AND
MONEY

YES: UP TO THE FIELD

46 Password security Yes LEVEL( BETTER THAN
THE LISTING BELOW)

47 By company Yes YES

48 By department or division Yes YES

49 By menu Yes YES

By function (view, add, change,

50 Yes YES
delete)

51 By dimension Yes YES

52 By level Yes YES

53 By cell Yes YES

YES: CAN BE
INTEGRATED WITH
Respect active directory ACTIVE DIRETORY
54 Yes
authentication AUTHENTICATION FOR
A SINGLE LOG ON PER
USER

55 Respect database security Yes YES

Portal generation that includes

56 Yes YES
HTML reports

NOT REQUIRED:
57 Report writer Yes
INTEGRATED FEATURE

58 Web-based Yes YES

NOT REQUIRED:
59 Generate cube Yes OVERCOMES CUBE
DRAWBACKS

60 Drag and drop Yes YES

61 WYSIWYG report design Yes YES

62 Technology Yes YES (AQL)

63 API-enabled (SDK provided) Yes YES

Web-based (only need browser

64 Yes YES
at client)

65 For entire application Yes YES

66 Support for .NET web services Yes YES

67 Support for Java web services Yes YES

68 Transfer data to: Yes

 QLIKVIEW IS NOT A
REPPORT WRITER
HOW EVER IT
SUPPORTS
69 Report writer Yes
GENERTING REPORTS
AND THIS FEATURE IS
INTEGRATED PART OF
QLIKVIEW.

70 Excel Yes YES

71 PivotTable Yes YES

72 HTML Yes YES

73 PDF Yes YES

COPY PASTE (CTRL+C,

74 PowerPoint Yes
CTRL+V)

75 XML Yes YES

76 Views Yes YES

77 Crosstabs Yes YES

78 Charts Yes YES

Both crosstabs and chart at the

79 Yes YES
same time

Open to function with

80 Work flow Yes
third party tools

YES IN THE FORM OF

POPUPS AND CAN BE
Alerts can be automatically USED TO AUTOMATE
81 Yes
triggered SENDING OF MAILS,
ACTIVATE/RUN OTHER
APPLICATIONS

82 Dynamically summarizing data ANALYSIS AT

without having to rebuild data? TRANSACTION LEVEL,
 WITH DRILL DOWN
CAPABILITY FROM THE
CONSOLIDATED
ANALYSIS

Ability to pre-calculate results

(aggregate) when they are
83 available, or dynamically YES
generating result from atomic
information when necessary

DOES NOT REQUIRE

CUBES WHICH CAN
HANDLE 3-10
DIMENTIONS ONLY.
Ability to control and design
84 QLIKVIEW IS BASED
cube aggregations
ON AQL THAT CAN
HANDLE AS MANY
DIMENTIONS AS THE
FILEDS AVAILABLE

DOES NOT REQUIRE

CUBES WHICH CAN
HANDLE 3-10
Ability to monitor cube DIMENTIONS ONLY.
85 performance and tune the cube QLIKVIEW IS BASED
aggregations accordingly ON AQL THAT CAN
HANDLE AS MANY
DIMENTIONS AS THE
FILEDS AVAILABLE

DOES NOT REQUIRE

CUBES WHICH CAN
HANDLE 3-10
Can the cube be built using DIMENTIONS ONLY.
86 either of ROLAP, MOLAP, QLIKVIEW IS BASED
HOLAP techniques ON AQL THAT CAN
HANDLE AS MANY
DIMENTIONS AS THE
FILEDS AVAILABLE

A hybrid database that stores

QLIKVIEW DOES NOT
data in relational form and
87 NEED THIRD PARY
multidimensional form, as
DATABASE.
appropriate
88 Is 'What-if" analysis supported YES

GUI based Data Mining

89 YES
Capabilities

90 Enterprise Platform YES

Statistical Analytical Modeling YES

91 Statistics YES

92 Data & Text Mining YES

Model Management &

93
Deployment

94 Forecasting YES

95 Econometrics YES

96 Quality Improvement

97 Operations Research

1/10 time than cognos

Initial implimentation time
and BO

1/6 time to impliment

Initial implimentation cost
than Cognos or BO

only five day Aplication

development training
required. Time to
Time to prficiency become proficient is in
days not in month that
is 1/6 than Cognos and
BI

Project Sucsess rate 35% 98%

TCO 1/2 than any BI tool

Twice than Cognos and

Value
BO