QlikView Vs Cognos Comparison

# Product Cognos BI Series Qlik View

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

Product

Cognos BI Series

Vendor

Cognos

C Applications 1 2 3 4 5 6 Business intelligence Multi dimensional view Strategic planning Budgeting Forecasting Consolidation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Qlikview is a single integrted tool for ETL, DW, Multi Dmentional Analysis, Dashboarding, Reporting, as per the Butler group user takes couple of hours training instead of weeks taken by traditional OLAP based tools

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 skilled human resource. With no datawarehouse required Qlikview can be impleted in a couple of weeks saving a lot of TIME, MONEY AND RESOURCES. Named Named User licence NO: Qlikview uses its 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

Warehousing is (Mandate/ Optional)

Mandate

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Server Licenses(Named/CPU) Named User Licenses (Name/Concorent/Unlimited) Web Users Named Unlimited

If preparatory Database specify No (Technical and Methodology)

vendor to creat and use analyitcs

E Technology Any OLEDB, ODBC complaing which covers althe datbase in the world today + FLAT FILE, WEBFILE. TEXT FILE DELIMITED FILE. ALSO WORKS WITH SYBASE Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y

Supported database

Microsoft SQL Server Oracle Pervasive SQL IBM DB2 Informix Access FoxPro Progress MySQL 2 Supported networks Microsoft Linux

Y Y

YES Y TO CONNECT TO THE DATABASE

Unix

Y TO CONNECT TO THE DATABASE Y TO CONNECT TO THE DATABASE Y TO CONNECT TO THE DATABASE Y TO CONNECT TO THE DATABASE

AIX

Novell Netware

IBM AS/400 (OS/400)

Development tools used to build application

NO THIRD PARTY DEVELOPMENT TOOL REQUIRED. THE CUSTOMER BECOMES Visual Basic, VENDOR WSDL, SOAP, XML INDEPENDENT FOR ANY NEW APPLICATION/ CHANGES REQUIRED Cognos ReportNet NO THIRD PARTY TOOL REQUIRED

Report writer used - which one(s)?

Data Extract Transform Load (ETL) tools - which one(s)?

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 (Cognos FEW DAYS AND DecisionStream) OPERATED BY CUSTOMER HENCE EMPOWER THEMSLEF TO CREAT OWN APPLICATION AS AND WHEN DEMAND ARISES All Major OLAP (Cognos PowerPlay) IN ADDITION TO ITS OWN DATA REPOSITORY

Cubes supported - which one(s)?

QLIKVIEW SUPPORTS ALL MAJOR OLAP CUBES ALL ODBC COMPLAINT DATABASE(all the current database in the Existing integration to SAP, PeopleSoft, market) IRRISPECTIVE accounting and ERP systems - JDE, Oracle, Great OF THEIR FRONT END, which systems? Plains SAP USING A SAP CERTIFIED CONNECTOR BY MEANS OF THE GLOBAL STANDARD ODBC, OLEDB CONNECTIONS (all major crm system)

Existing integration to customer relationship management Siebel, Onyx systems - which systems?

Existing integration to payroll systems - which systems?

BY MEANS OF THE Open system, great WORLD STANDARD flexibility against all ODBC, OLEDB data sources. CONNECTIONS( all major payroll system) BY MEANS OF THE WORLD STANDARD ODBC, OLEDB CONNECTIONS (all major hr system)

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Existing integration to HRMS systems - which systems?

as above

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Features Analytic functionality Bubble up exceptions Yes Yes 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 THE AGREGATED DATA IN CASE OF OLAP BASED APPLICATIONS YES YES YES YES YES AS MANY YEARS AS THE DATABASE HOLDS

Drill through to source data

Yes

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Ranking Sorting Restrict results by date range Includes dashboard Time trending (for example, over 12 months)

Yes Yes Yes

Yes

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Pareto filtering (automatically groups the categories that Yes amount to less than 20% of a row or column total into "other") Calculations Yes

YES

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YES

Counts

Yes

YES

Percentage of total

Yes

YES

Allocations

Yes

YES

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Total and Sub-total

Yes

YES

Create OLAP cubes Data extraction and transformation tools Incremental extraction Impact analysis - objects impacted by change Can schedule process to run overnight Formatting

Yes

NOT REQUIRED

Yes

INTEGRATED

Yes

YES

Yes

YES

Yes

YES

Yes

YES

By dimension

Yes

YES: N DIMENTION

By level

Yes

YES

By cell

Yes

YES ZERO/NULL FIELD SUPPRESSION

Zero-row suppression Conditional formatting by cell, e.g., highlight cells below threshold

Yes

Yes

YES

Returns text (e.g., if value > 90, Yes returns "excellent")

YES UNICODE: CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN ANY LANGUAGE

French version

Yes

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Screens

Yes

YES

Reports

Yes

YES

Documentation

Yes

YES

Metadata

Yes

YES

OLAP functionality Skip missing levels - support ragged dimensions Write back

Yes

NOT REQUIRED

Yes

YES

Yes

NO

With audit trail

Yes

YES

Includes charting tools

Yes

YES

Access multiple cubes at a time Yes

YES

Excel client

Yes

YES

Internet Explorer client

Yes

YES

Netscape client

Yes

FireFox

Geographical representation Drag and drop

Yes Yes

YES YES

3 4 4 CUBES NOT REQUIRED SAVES TIME AND MONEY CELLS NOT REQUIRED SAVES TIME AND MONEY YES: UP TO THE FIELD LEVEL( BETTER THAN THE LISTING BELOW) YES

Attach notes to cube

Yes

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Attach notes to cells

Yes

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Password security

Yes

By company

Yes

By department or division

Yes

YES

By menu

Yes

YES

By function (view, add, change, Yes delete) By dimension Yes

YES

YES

By level

Yes

YES

By cell

Yes

YES YES: CAN BE INTEGRATED WITH ACTIVE DIRETORY AUTHENTICATION FOR A SINGLE LOG ON PER USER YES

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Respect active directory authentication

Yes

Respect database security

Yes

5 5 6 5 7 5 8 5 9 6 0 6 1 6 2 6 3 6 4 6 5 6 6 6 7 6 8 6 Portal generation that includes Yes HTML reports Report writer Yes YES NOT REQUIRED: INTEGRATED FEATURE YES NOT REQUIRED: OVERCOMES CUBE DRAWBACKS YES

Web-based

Yes

Generate cube

Yes

Drag and drop

Yes

WYSIWYG report design

Yes

YES

Technology

Yes

YES (AQL)

API-enabled (SDK provided)

Yes

YES

Web-based (only need browser Yes at client) For entire application Yes

YES

YES

Support for .NET web services Yes

YES

Support for Java web services Yes

YES

Transfer data to: Report writer

Yes Yes QLIKVIEW IS NOT A

REPPORT WRITER HOW EVER IT SUPPORTS GENERTING REPORTS AND THIS FEATURE IS INTEGRATED PART OF QLIKVIEW. Excel Yes YES

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PivotTable

Yes

YES

HTML

Yes

YES

PDF

Yes

YES COPY PASTE (CTRL+C, CTRL+V) YES

PowerPoint

Yes

XML

Yes

Views

Yes

YES

Crosstabs

Yes

YES

Charts

Yes

YES

Both crosstabs and chart at the Yes same time Work flow Alerts can be automatically triggered Yes Yes

YES Open to function with third party tools YES IN THE FORM OF POPUPS AND CAN BE

USED TO AUTOMATE SENDING OF MAILS, ACTIVATE/RUN OTHER APPLICATIONS ANALYSIS AT TRANSACTION LEVEL, WITH DRILL DOWN CAPABILITY FROM THE CONSOLIDATED ANALYSIS

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Dynamically summarizing data without having to rebuild data?

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Ability to pre-calculate results (aggregate) when they are available, or dynamically generating result from atomic information when necessary

YES

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Ability to control and design cube aggregations

DOES NOT REQUIRE CUBES WHICH CAN HANDLE 3-10 DIMENTIONS ONLY. QLIKVIEW IS BASED ON AQL THAT CAN HANDLE AS MANY DIMENTIONS AS THE FILEDS AVAILABLE DOES NOT REQUIRE CUBES WHICH CAN HANDLE 3-10 DIMENTIONS ONLY. QLIKVIEW IS BASED ON AQL THAT CAN HANDLE AS MANY DIMENTIONS AS THE FILEDS AVAILABLE DOES NOT REQUIRE CUBES WHICH CAN HANDLE 3-10 DIMENTIONS ONLY. QLIKVIEW IS BASED ON AQL THAT CAN HANDLE AS MANY

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Ability to monitor cube performance and tune the cube aggregations accordingly

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Can the cube be built using either of ROLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP techniques

DIMENTIONS AS THE FILEDS AVAILABLE A hybrid database that stores data in relational form and multidimensional form, as appropriate Is 'What-if" analysis supported GUI based Data Mining Capabilities Enterprise Platform Statistical Analytical Modeling 9 1 9 2 9 3 9 4 9 5 9 6 9 7 Statistics Data & Text Mining Model Management & Deployment Forecasting Econometrics Quality Improvement Operations Research YES YES QLIKVIEW DOES NOT NEED THIRD PARY DATABASE. YES YES YES YES YES YES

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Initial implimentation time

1/10 time than cognos

and BO Initial implimentation cost 1/6 time to impliment than Cognos or BO only five day Aplication development training required. Time to become proficient is in days not in month that is 1/6 than Cognos and BI

Time to prficiency

Project Sucsess rate

35%

98%

TCO Value

1/2 than any BI tool Twice than Cognos and BO