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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cognos Analytics

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cognos is a full-featured business intelligence suite by IBM, designed for larger deployments. It comprises Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search, and dashboards.

    $11.25

    per month per user

    IBM Watson Studio

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM Watson Studio enables users to build, run and manage AI models, and optimize decisions at scale across any cloud. IBM Watson Studio enables users can operationalize AI anywhere as part of IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, the IBM data and AI platform. The vendor states the solution simplifies AI lifecycle management and accelerates time to value with an open, flexible multicloud architecture.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsIBM Watson Studio
    Editions & Modules
    On Demand - Standard
    USD 11.25
    per month per user
    On Demand - Premium
    USD 44.90
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsIBM Watson Studio
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsIBM Watson Studio
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
    Chose IBM Watson Studio
    Not applicable
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Watson Studio
    The learning curve for DSX is smaller compared to other tools. The data science user base often has preferred tools that they have used previously which are often not DSX which makes adoption of DSX by trained data scientists harder than new users.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Watson Studio
    The mix of proprietary and open-source benefits that DSx offers gives me more flexibility than any other options I have encountered. I have the custom program building capability of Anaconda with the built-in predictive models of SPSS Modeler. I have more visualization …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    92 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    79 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    91 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    64 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsIBM Watson Studio
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.7
    138 Ratings
    6% below category average
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports7.6129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.0136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.5131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.9
    138 Ratings
    1% below category average
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.4136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.3139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.397 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.6133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    9.2
    136 Ratings
    11% above category average
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web9.836 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.2132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.833 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.2134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.4
    124 Ratings
    8% below category average
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.9121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.0114 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.7110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.947 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    7.8
    130 Ratings
    8% below category average
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.5129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.5127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.4127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.257 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.6111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    6.3
    109 Ratings
    21% below category average
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access6.8104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.390 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.696 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    9.2
    87 Ratings
    17% above category average
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    -
    Ratings
    REST API7.683 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API7.779 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames9.912 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)9.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.99 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    8.1
    22 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    MDM Integration00 Ratings6.414 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Visualization00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    9.5
    22 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Data Transformations00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Data Encryption00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Built-in Processors00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    9.5
    22 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Automated Machine Learning00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings8.020 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    Feature
    IBM Cognos Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
    8.0
    22 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings7.022 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsIBM Watson Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (158 ratings)
    8.0
    (65 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (31 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (40 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.4
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Cognos AnalyticsIBM Watson Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    For Transaction monitoring, we build reports for executive management, providing insights into the number of alerts, the types or categories of detection scenarios, the risk profile, and a snapshot of high- or urgent-priority cases to be reported to AUSTRAC. Congos helps to build the report by ingesting alert data exported from SAS datasets. It joins with other data from Teradata and Customer Hub (Oracle).
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    It has a lot of features that are good for teams working on large-scale projects and continuously developing and reiterating their data project models. Really helpful when dealing with large data. It is a kind of one-stop solution for all data science tasks like visualization, cleaning, analyzing data, and developing models but small teams might find a lot of features unuseful.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Enterprise reporting - Create, customise, and run reports on sales trends, consumer sentiment, etc.
    • Dashboard creation and data exploration & analysis - Using drag and drop feature to create ad-hoc visualisation. Additionally, using AI powered natural language query feature for data analysis and dashboard input (formation of pie, bar, line charts). It's useful for no-technical person to put queries around the spreadsheet data to get quick answers.
    • Building insights for accurate decision making - Package reports with data backed insights for stakeholders in pdf, and Excel format to support business ad-hoc cases, forecasting and strategic recommendations on relevant asks.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • Integration of IBM Watson APIs such as speech to text, image recognition, personality insights, etc.
    • SPSS modeler and neural network model provide no-code environments for data scientists to build pipelines quickly.
    • Enforced best-practices set up POCs for deployment in production with a minimum of re-work.
    • Estimator validation lets data scientists test and prove different models.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    IBM
    • IBM Cognos Analytics enables customer data segmentation, which is essential for marketing, improving and streamlining purchasing behavior and preferences. This helps companies create more targeted and effective marketing campaigns.
    • Our clients Through data analysis, we can identify and observe trends in the behavior of other clients, allowing us to anticipate needs and adjust strategies to avoid consequences.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • The cost is steep and so only companies with resources can afford it
    • It will be nice to have Chinese versions so that Chinese engineers can also use it easily
    • It takes a while to learn how to input different kinds of skin defects for detection
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    For an existing solution, renewing licenses does provide a good return on investment. Additionally, while rolling out scorecards and dashboards with little adhoc capabilities, to end users, cognos is very easily scalable. It also allows to create a solution that has a mix of OLAP and relational data-sources, which is a limitation with other tools. Synchronizing with existing security setup is easy too.
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    IBM
    because we find out that DSX results have improved our approach to the whole subject (data, models, procedures)
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    IBM
    We have a strong user base (3500 users) that are highly utilizing this tool. Basic users are able to consume content within the applied security model. We have a set of advanced users that really push the limits of Cognos with Report and Query Studio. These users have created a lot of personal content and stored it in 'My Reports'. Users enjoy this flexibility.
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    IBM
    The UI flawlessly merges this offering by providing a neat, minimal, responsive interface
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    Reports can typically be viewed through any browser that can access the server, so the availability is ultimately up to what the company utilizing it is comfortable with allowing, though report development tends to be more picky about browsers and settings as mentioned above. It also has an optional iPad app and general mobile browsing support, but dashboards lack the mobile compatibility. What keeps it from getting a higher score is the desktop tools that are vital to the development process. The compatibility with only Windows when the server has a wide range of compatibility can be a real sore point for a company that outfits its employees exclusively with Mac or Linux machines. Of course, if they are planning on outsourcing the development anyways, it's a rather moot point
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    IBM
    From time to time there are services unavailable, but we have been always informed before and they got back to work sooner than expected
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    Performance
    IBM
    Overall no major complaints but it doesn't handle DMR (Dimensionally Modeled for Relational) very well. DMR modelling is a capability that IBM Cognos Framework Manager provides allowing you to specify dimensional information for relational metadata and allows for OLAP-style queries. However, the capability is not very efficient and, for example, if I'm using only 2 columns on a 20-column model, the software is not smart enough to exclude 18 columns and the query side gets progressively larger and larger until it's effectively unusable.
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    IBM
    Never had slow response even on our very busy network
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    Why is their web application not working as fast as you think it should? They never know, and it is always a a bunch of shots in the dark to find out. Trying to download software from them is like trying to find a book at the library before computers were invented.
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    IBM
    I received answers mostly at once and got answered even further my question: they gave me interesting points of view and suggestion for deepening in the learning path
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    Onsite training provided by IBM Cognos was effective and as expected. They did not perform training with our data which was a bit difficult for our end-users.
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    IBM
    The trainers on the job are very smart with solutions and very able in teaching
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    Online Training
    IBM
    The online courses they offer are thorough and presented in such a way that someone who isn't already familiar with the general design methodologies used in this field will be capable of making a good design. The training environments are provided as a fully self contained virtual machine with everything needed already to create the environments. We've had some persisting issues with the environments becoming unavailable, but support has been responsive when these issues arise and straightening them out for us
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    IBM
    The Platform is very handy and suggests further steps according my previous interests
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    Make sure that any custom tables that you have, are built into your metadata packages. You can still access them via SQL queries in Cognos, but it is much easier to have them as a part of the available metadata packages.
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    IBM
    It surprised us with unpredictable case of use and brand new points of view
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Power BI is stronger for quick ad-hoc analysis and dashboards, but IBM Cognos Analytics is better when consistency, precision, and mass distribution matter. Tableau is best for interactive analysis, while IBM Cognos Analytics is better for standardized, repeatable enterprise reporting. Sigma shines for customizable dashboards and drill-down analysis while IBM Cognos Analytics holds an edge in data discovery and visualization.
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    IBM
    The main reason I personally changed over from Azure ML Studio is because it lacked any support for significant custom modelling with packages and services such as TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit and Spark ML. IBM Watson Studio provides these services and does so in a well integrated and easy to use fashion making it a preferable service over the other services that I have personally used.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    We rate IBM Cognos Analytics a 9 out of 10 for overall scalability. The platform handles large numbers of users, reports, and analytical workloads very reliably. We have experienced strong performance even in demanding enterprise environments with substantial data volumes. Its architecture provides sufficient flexibility to scale resources according to demand, making it well suited for large, business-critical deployments.
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    IBM
    It helped us in getting from 0 to DSX without getting lost
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • The platform can be pretty pricey.
    • Convoluted contracts and they fine you for any breach during audits.
    • Things are changed between releases without any warning and break.
    • It is second to none at being able to customize list and crosstab type reports.
    • You can easily set up a report to be emailed out every day and even have it export the report to a shared folder.
    • On-prem environments can be scaled up pretty much as much as you would like.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • Could instantly show data driven insights to drive 20% incremental revenue over existing results
    • Still don't have a real use case for unstructured data like twitter feed
    • Some of the insights around user actions have driven new projects to automate mundane tasks
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