IBM Cognos Analytics Review
January 15, 2021
IBM Cognos Analytics Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Analysis Studio
- Query Studio
- Report Studio
- Transformer
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics
Used across the whole organization.
Addresses practically all our important, and most of our less important business questions.
Addresses practically all our important, and most of our less important business questions.
- Ad hoc combination of attributes to select data (in order to analyze data).
- Range of front-ends (cubes, standard reports, query- and report-studio for power-users).
- Integration of diagram-functionality in cubes.
- Downloading in different formats (csv, xls, pdf,...).
- OLAP-cubes MUST IMMEDIATELY be upgraded to 64-bit-technology (if not, we are lost as Cognos/IBM-customer).
- Easier integration of complex authorisation systems (concepts) into cubes (vertical as well as horizontal authorisation).
- Much more statistics-functionality in cubes! (IBM bought SPSS 10 years ago!! where is the benefit of Cognos-users!!)!!!
- Positive: MUCH easier access to data for hundreds of users in our organisation (almost thousands of users).
- Positive: time saved! at least 70%.
- Positive: hundreds of users can now analyze data and can get scheduled reports.
TRANSFORMER plus Cognos-Cubes were superior to all of them: speed of development as well as usability!
Much higher speed of development as compared to SAS.
Much easer as well as versatile handling for end-users as compared to SAP-BW.
We had a difficult time to decide between BO and Cognos. Don't remember why we chose Cognos over BO.
Much higher speed of development as compared to SAS.
Much easer as well as versatile handling for end-users as compared to SAP-BW.
We had a difficult time to decide between BO and Cognos. Don't remember why we chose Cognos over BO.
Not really. Because our users stick to Cognos OLAP-Cubes. No interest in using fancy dashboards. Management not interested in dashboards (just in numbers). The real enablement was, many many years ago, cubes over standard-reports.
Security-concept (authorization concept) is not detailed enough for our purpose (but we use mainly cubes).