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IBM Cognos Analytics vs. Qlik Sense

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricIBM Cognos Analytics

by IBM

Qlik Sense

by Qlik

Overall rating4.14.4
Review count511929
Ease of use7.98.7
Ease of setup7.78.4
Quality of support7.98.3
Meets requirements8.58.7
NPS36.42533955.905512
Small Business16.8%18.2%
Mid-Market26.1%40.6%
Enterprise57.1%41.2%
Total page views1,6851,451
Total LLM citations6,70416,179

IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics is a business intelligence and analytics solution that uses agentic AI to help teams transform trusted data into actionable insights, build governed analytical applications, and make better decisions. Teams can explore data, monitor KPIs, analyze performance, forecast trends, and share insights across the business. The solution is built for business leaders, analysts, report authors, IT teams, and data governance teams that need governed reporting, self-service analytics, data modeling, and flexible deployment options.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Report Generation
  • Analytics
  • Data Visualization
  • Dashboard Management
  • Dashboard Customization

Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense empowers people to make better data-driven decisions and take action. The solution provides augmented analytics for every business need from visualization and dashboards to natural language analytics, custom and embedded analytics, reporting and alerting. Our unique associative technology enhances human intuition with AI-powered insights, offering unmatched capabilities for combining data and exploring information. It indexes the associations in your data, and exposes related and unrelated values as you click, revealing hidden insights that would be missed by query-based tools.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Data Visualization
  • Analytics
  • Insights Discovery
  • Features
  • Intuitive