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IBM Cognos Analytics

Overview

What is IBM Cognos Analytics?

IBM 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.

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On Demand - Standard

$10.00

Cloud
per month per user

On Demand - Standard

$10.60

On Premise
per month per user

On Demand - Premium

$42.40

On Premise
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.ibm.com/products/cognos…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $10 per month per user
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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.5
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.7
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.1
Avg 8.3

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

7.7
Avg 8.0

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

7.9
Avg 8.5

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.1
Avg 8.0

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

7.3
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

What is IBM Cognos Analytics?

Cognos Analytics is an AI-fueled business intelligence platform that supports the entire analytics cycle, from discovery to operationalization. Cognos Analytics gives users — whether data scientist, business analyst or non-specialist — more power to perform relevant analysis in a way that ties back to organizational objectives. It aims to shorten each user’s journey from simple to sophisticated analytics, allowing them to harness data to explore the unknown, identify new relationships, get a deeper understanding of outcomes and challenge the status quo. Users can visualize, analyze and share actionable insights about data with anyone in the organization.


IBM Cognos Analytics Features

BI Platform Features

  • Supported: Administration via Web Interface
  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: Snapshot of External Data
  • Supported: In-memory data model
  • Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
  • Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
  • Supported: ETL Capability
  • Supported: ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources Features

  • Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
  • Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
  • Supported: Oracle
  • Supported: MS SQL Server
  • Supported: IBM DB2
  • Supported: MySQL
  • Supported: ODBC
  • Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
  • Supported: IBM Netezza
  • Supported: SAP Hana
  • Supported: Salesforce
  • Supported: SAP

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
  • Supported: Customizable dashboards
  • Supported: Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to PDF
  • Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
  • Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Report-Level Access Control
  • Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Mobile Application
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features

  • Supported: REST API
  • Supported: Javascript API

IBM Cognos Analytics Screenshots

Screenshot of a natural language query, used in IBM Cognos Analytics to get AI-powered insights from data.Screenshot of AI-generated insights and forecasts that can be added with just a click of a button.Screenshot of a dashboard that can be generated automatically using IBM Cognos Analytics by uploading or selecting data.Screenshot of an AI-generated dashboard from a spreadsheet that was just uploaded. This offers a great starting point for the creative process.Screenshot of where to import data to IBM Cognos Analytics from CSV files and spreadsheets. Users can connect to cloud or on-premises data sources, including SQL databases, Google BigQuery, Amazon, and Redshift.Screenshot of a sample operational dashboard of a coffee shop created using IBM Cognos Analytics.

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IBM Cognos Analytics Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew, Urdu, Farsi

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM 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.

IBM Cognos Analytics starts at $10.

Tableau Public, Tableau Server, and Microsoft Power BI are common alternatives for IBM Cognos Analytics.

Reviewers rate Report Versioning highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of IBM Cognos Analytics are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

User-Friendly Dashboards: Users have praised the user-friendly dashboards in IBM Cognos Analytics for enabling quick creation of custom dashboards and easy understanding of visual data representations. The intuitive design allows users to identify trends at a glance, enhancing their analytical capabilities.

AI-Powered Insights: Many reviewers have highlighted the value of the AI-powered Insights feature in IBM Cognos Analytics, which automatically identifies patterns and insights, enhancing analysis depth effortlessly. This feature has been instrumental in uncovering valuable insights that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.

Seamless Data Integration: Customers appreciate the seamless and efficient data integration capabilities of Cognos Analytics, allowing for easy merging of data from various sources like customer feedback and sales figures. The smooth integration process streamlines workflow efficiency and enhances overall data management practices.

Steep Learning Curve: Users have expressed that there is a steep learning curve for beginners when using the software, requiring a substantial amount of time to fully understand its functionalities. The user interface is considered outdated and not user-friendly, especially in comparison to more modern solutions available in the market.

Poor Mobile Capabilities: Users have expressed the need for better mobile capabilities. Users note that accessing reports on the go can be cumbersome. Users also express that the mobile interface is not as intuitive as the desktop.

Performance Issues with Large Datasets: Some users have encountered performance issues when working with large datasets, experiencing occasional lags that hinder their workflow efficiency. Additionally, they have noted that these performance issues can lead to delays in data analysis tasks, impacting productivity.

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Great reporting and visualization

Rating: 6 out of 10
September 10, 2024
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IBM Cognos Analytics
5 years of experience
We use it for Data preparation, reporting/dashboard and data analysis. It addresses the problem of Data Silos, operational data efficiency for Enterprise data team.
  • Reporting
  • Interactive dashboard
  • Collaboration
It’s good to avoid data siloes and piece everything together to a 360 view for an entity like member. However, as compared to other tools in the market it is slow in terms of performance, data integration capabilities are limited and has a limited set for views for data visualization

Effective software in data reporting and performance contract management

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 29, 2024
FB
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
1 year of experience
It enables my team to consolidate data and build manageable infrastructure that interlinks different data sources. Data visualization has been challenging and with this software reporting capabilities on different projects have highly improved. I can easily track performance and with efficient scorecards that aligns with set business goals. IBM Cognos Analytics has integrated AI and machine learning that enables my team to identify effective business opportunities.
  • Reliable performance management
  • Effective data visualization
  • Data analysis
The product has enhanced self-service operations in data management. There is no need to hire data expertise with IBM Cognos Analytics since it has powerful data handling tools. Team collaboration has improved from shared annotations and stable report distributions across the enterprise. The application maintains data accuracy and compliance with set enterprise policies in data handling.

IBM Cognos Analytics

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 05, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
1 year of experience
IBM Cognos Analytics is a very good solution for performing analytics on the data using ai powered model and get very useful insights and that helps in taking business critical decisions .the reporting features available in the solution is very useful as well to get detailed insights created from the data.
  • Reporting
  • Data Modelling
IBM Cognos Analytics helps to make critical decisions using the features such as ai powered data model . The deployment was also very flexible and the report generation using analytics works best due to its high data handling capabilities. It is well suited in situations where detailed analysis is required where business critical decisions must be made

IBM Cognos Analytics, in my opinion, legacy leader modern laggard

Rating: 6 out of 10
March 29, 2024
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Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
8 years of experience
Primarily used for Dashboard and Report development with some level of self service capabilities.
  • Tabular reports
  • Dashboards
  • Role based access controls
IBM Cognos Analytics does basic reports, dashboards, RBAC (Role Based Access Controls), active directory integration well. However, it lacks AI integration, lacks easy self service report and dashboard development for business users, needs new and refreshed charts and visuals.

Good BI tool for advanced analytics.

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 29, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
1 year of experience
We use IBM Cognos Analytics is a business intelligence and analytics platform to gather and aggregate data from multiple parts of our organization, then analyze and visualize data to make business decisions (mainly to improve B2B sales and customer satisfaction, but also as a hint for developing new products/solutions for our clients).
  • Data Visualization: Plenty of options exist for multiple use cases, and dashboards are easy to implement and customize.
  • Integration with IBM Watson: makes it easy to use Watson AI features (NLP etc.) on your data.
  • Its advanced analytics functionalities with powerful pattern detection/prediction models.
Our first and most basic scenario was to automatize the creation and publication/sharing of business reports that used to be created manually by employees throughout our organization. Using Cognos for that first use case worked well. The advanced analytics functionalities we used on the aggregated data were also as expected. However, the user interface is not always intuitive, and there is a steep learning curve, so I would recommend Cognos only to large organizations where there is a need for the most advanced functionalities (AI analysis/prediction).

It's like a Swiss Army knife for our data

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
3 years of experience
At our marketing agency, we primarily use IBM Cognos Analytics to dive deep into customer and non-customer data for a major financial bank brand we're working with. Our main goal is to gauge the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and track the performance of financial products and services, like how many new credit card subscriptions or account openings we're getting. Basically, Cognos Analytics is our go-to for everything data-related. It helps us pull together all kinds of data, make sense of it, and then present it in a way that’s easy for both our team and our client to understand. We're talking detailed reports, dashboards full of insights, and really clear visualizations that show us what's working and what's not. It's been a really helpful tool in terms of making data-driven decisions to fine-tune our strategies and boost sales performance for the bank. It's like having a superpower for data analytics in our toolkit.
  • The user-friendly dashboards lets us create custom dashboards super quickly. It's great at visualizing data in a way that's easy to grasp, which means we can spot trends at a glance without getting lost in the numbers.
  • AI-powered Insights are a lifesaver. It automatically highlights patterns and insights we might miss, making our analysis more thorough without extra effort on our part.
  • Data integration is a breeze. Merging data from various sources is very simple to implement. Whether it's customer feedback or sales figures, Cognos handles it seamlessly, giving us a complete view without the headache of manual merging.
  • We love the report automation. Generating reports is no longer a time-consuming task. We set up what we need once, and Cognos does the rest, automating our weekly or monthly reports and saving us a ton of time.
Cognos is fantastic for businesses like ours that need to dive deep into customer data to evaluate marketing strategies. It's especially good when you're dealing with multiple data sources and need to bring everything together in a coherent, visual format for analysis and decision-making. Also, if your team values data-driven insights to guide your strategies, Cognos Analytics is a powerful ally. Where it might be less appropriate is for small startups or teams with very basic data analysis needs. The complexity and cost could be overkill when simpler, less expensive solutions like Power Bi, or Tableau would do. Additionally, if quick, on-the-fly mobile access to data is critical for your team, you might find the mobile experience a bit lacking.

IBM Cognos Analytics Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 25, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
1 year of experience
I work in an industry which is completely data driven, using IBM Cognos Analytics we can easily schedule reports that could be sent out to stake holders without any manual interference.

The data driven analytics is very helpfull in generating graph reports and also generate predictions
  • Scheduled report generational and email
  • Very good for customising reports and creating accurate reports
  • It can easily integrate with multiple ERP's
The IBM Cognos Analytics is well suited in places where is there is a lot of data to be processed, using this tool all the data can be split it to multiple reports. Our BA team was complaining about raw data being given to them and the time it was taking time to extract this data however with IBM Cognos Analytics tool this was done within no time , which actually helped the team to work on the data

Great Data Visual tool that's let down by lack of integrations & customer support.

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 23, 2024
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Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
1 year of experience
We use the tool for data modeling as it helps in predictive data analysis for complex data, which is very much in line with real-life scenarios. It offers options for customizing and scheduling reports as per our requirements. It has a mobile application that works seamlessly. Depending on the scope, licensing, and maintenance can go from cheap to expensive.
  • We use the tool for data modeling as it helps in predictive data analysis for complex data, which is very similar to real-life scenarios.
  • Options of customizing & scheduling reports as per our requirements basis.
  • Has mobile application which works seamless.
Well suited: 1. We use the tool for data modeling as it helps in predictive data analysis for complex data, which is very much in line with real-life scenarios. 2. Options of customizing & scheduling reports as per our requirements basis. 3. Has a mobile application that works seamlessly. Less Appropriate: 1. API integration with minimal options is not up to the mark. Laptops get overheated when using the tool, from moderate to heavy use. 2. Also, there is a lag in the tool times. 3. There is a lot of scope to improve customer support & it's not up to industry standards. 4. Licensing & Maintenance can go from cheap to expensive depending on the scope.

IBM Cognos for Automation, Business Performance Insights, and Advanced Learning

Rating: 4 out of 10
March 22, 2024
This is used by some of the teams for modeling, predictive analysis using historical data, and deep insights on overall Business Intelligence.
  • advanced modeling
  • reporting and dashboarding
  • integration with engineer toolsets
IBM Cognos Analytics is great for deep-level stakeholder Business Intelligence and performance, but not as appropriate for quick, ad-hoc analysis and dashboarding for junior level, non-technical stakeholders and partners in my opinion. We have not been able to sync the data with newer data streams, such as Digital Communications, marketing, etc.

Unlocking Business Insights with IBM Cognos Analytics

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 22, 2024
Aa
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Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
5 years of experience
It is business intelligence platform which enables organizations to make insights from their data and also provides informed decisions. Few business problems and how my organization addresses it: It allows organization to create interactive dashboards and reports, and can get AI powered insights too which helps in analyze trends and metrics. Through this user can explore data from multiple sources to cover insights, patterns. It also provides ad hoc querying and predictive analytics. It performs operational analytics which helps organization to improve productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction. we can analyze the data in real time which enhances performance and business growth.
Use Case:
Supply Chain Optimization
Sales and marketing analytics
Customer segmentation and analysis
  • It provides statistical analysis and predictive modeling which helps to forecast sales trends based on data and other factors.
  • It provides user friendly interface which helps users to explore data without extensive IT support. Like sales and marketing teams can use self service BI to analyze customer data and personalize campaigns for marketing.
  • It integrates well with IBM products and also with third party which enables organization to integrate with different products for better results and growth.
  • It provides security and governance features which maintains confidentiality, and compliance of data. It impose HIPAA compliance by providing role based access and encryption to protect sensitive data.
Well Suited Scenarios:
When it comes to financial planning processes, Cognos Analytics is suitable as it provides budgeting, forecasting capabilities. It helps in creating, analyzing forecasts and budgets.
When organization need to manage and monitor performances across different departments and teams Cognos Analytics is used to track KPIs, set targets and measure performance against thresholds.
Less Appropriate Scenarios:
For small stakeholders with limited resources, it might be concerning as it takes investment in cost, training and infrastructure. For them, it is cost effective to use simpler analytics tool.
For simpler and easier visualization, Cognos Analytics is not appropriate as it offers advanced analytics options and might be difficult to use and navigate through the platform.
It is not suited for those use cases, where high volume of data is streamed on real time as it offers near real time data integration.

Best Business AI Tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
2 years of experience
We use IBM Cognos Analytics extensively in our data research. Our research is primarily based on the data input of demographics of our customers / potential customers, and what kind of services can be best offered to them. We have a bulk of data from the customers using our portfolio management and investment banking services, and IBM Cognos Analytics helps us get meaningful information out of that data
  • Charts!
  • Dashboard reporting
  • Assigning of roles and rights to users
It is very well suited for us when we have a lot of data which we need to present into a meaningful information. It also helps junior resources in the company to also play an important role in data analytics - plain English commands help in that.
I guess it would be less appropriate for smaller organisations with less quantum of data.

IBM Cognos Analytics

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
2 years of experience
This technology is a great way for our business to see the scope of the work we are doing in one large dashboard. The data driven insights help us reach our goals and make more informed decisions. The software integrates reporting, modeling, analysis, dashboards, stories, and event management so that you can understand your organization's data, and make effective business decisions.
  • User friendly
  • Strong graphics
IBM Cognos Analytics gives users formatted and interactive dashboards with custom visualizations for users to make anywhere, anytime from any device. A great way to understand our business landscape and to gain business intelligence about our clients and partners. Data driven decisions help us make better informed business decisions for customers and our business year round.

Great for data analysis

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 20, 2024
DG
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
4 years of experience
We mostly use it for data analytics and business intelligence. With the data provided IBM Cognos Analytics provide comprehensive reports and insights in our organisation data. It helps us create KPI's with all the proper metrics. Overall its powerful data analytics helps us create and generate reports regarding our organizations sales and business operations.
  • Data Analytics
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data security
We use it for various purposes such as its great for creating reports as it keeps factoring all the key indicators. its data analytics capabilities are also unmatched we run many ads and it provides us deep insights about that like which ad is performing the best. Its also great for predictive analysis as well.

Best translation of AI into Business Analytics

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
1 year of experience
Being in the video production industry, we have a lot of bulky data relating to audience engagement of a video on a particular digital platform. IBM Cognos Analytics provides us AI driven data analytics which helps us identify which category of audience has engaged the most, and also helps us bucket the audiences into age groups, demographics, etc. It helps us extract useful information out of the bulky data that is scraped.
  • Great dashboard
  • Understands prompts reasonably well
  • Amazing charts
  • Decent speed
IBM Cognos Analytics is pretty well suited to work on bulky data set, from which a specific set of information needs to be extracted.
Works really well for us for assessing and analysing audience engagement on various social platforms like Instagram, YouTube, X, etc. and helps us guide our clients on efficient marketing strategy.

Powerful and reliable BI tool

Rating: 6 out of 10
March 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
2 years of experience
We use IBM Cognos Analytics as our primary Business Intelligence tool for our risk and business reporting needs. We use it to produce customized reports for specific user/entitlement groups.
We also use it for Data exploration/cleansing efforts in initial stages of our Machine Learning projects and to run statistical analytics on various data sets.
  • AI assistant is handy and speeds up intial setup
  • Data exploration and discovery
  • Excel charting
  • Integrates with wide range of data sources
IBM Cognos Analytics is well suited for use cases where you have to present reporting and tell story using data to a non-technical audience. The charting features are good and helps combine and analyze various datasets easily.

It's less suited for use by Machine Learning engineers/developers to probe data and derive statistical insights from datasets.

IBM Cognos Analytics Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 13, 2024
IBM Cognos Analytics is used in the organization for reporting and analytics trends that come from the financial aspects of the company. Additionally, IBM Cognos Analytics is used to create dashboards for Management to monitor real-time performance and trends. The scope of this use case is the entire organization as it is used for period end reporting purposes.
  • Easy to use "out of the box"
  • Easily adaptive user interface
  • Automation solutions are very efficient
IBM Cognos Analytics is very well suited for a large company that has users who are well versed in business intelligence and know how to create reports and monitor their necessary data to create a visually appetizing summary. This may be less appropriate for a smaller company that does not need the necessary computing power to bring together mass amount of data to report results/analyze trends and run analytics.

Data unification capacity, great help to the end user in the creation of the final report.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 17, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
4 years of experience
Throughout the organization, we fully use this tool for the control of administration automation, mainly reports and data models, which allows us to improve through what the tool analyzes; also for the development of queries. IBM Cognos Analytics collaborates with us efficiently, saving all the necessary time that we use for other things for the financial well-being of the organization since it has an Artificial Intelligence capable of identifying itself with any activity that is needed in the company quickly and perfect, among other things the automation of the boards.
  • It can be connected to multiple data sources.
  • Easily integrates with any other tool.
  • Combination of data sources.
  • Favorable technical service, always attentive.
  • It is fully scalable.
Being a stable and robust tool, it has been very useful for managing all the data in report and content management, allowing you to be connected from any device or data source or on the web. We use it in all the departments of the organization, offering us excellent functions that help us to have good visualizations automatically, therefore, quickly, of the data to keep everything in order. We recommend it mainly for large companies that have data silos. IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson will keep each piece of data unified by the department.

Automated system for better productivity of your business.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 14, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
5 years of experience
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is an essential tool in all departments of the organization; due to its Artificial Intelligence capacity, it is capable of keeping everything in order from the beginning to the end. At all times, the tool creates a report of all the data in a structured way, knowing exactly the result that you want to evaluate and be fully resolved, which allows us to be connected to your control panel. This product integrates easily with different tools, making the whole process easier.; It also has a great team of technicians to help.
  • Full data reporting and analysis all the time.
  • Artificial Intelligence of great help for business performance.
  • Easily integrates with other tools.
  • You can count on this scalable platform.
  • Fast in data recovery.
  • It has a good price.
  • Quality technical team.
Despite some drawbacks, such as visualizations, IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson has been quite beneficial for the company; the data reports are constantly analyzed in a concise and precise manner, extracting the most specific ones for better control. Everything is simpler since its implementation since everything is systematized and, therefore, processes are accelerated. Something extremely important is productivity is higher, maintaining a good work environment and with customers.

High Quality Enterprise Analytics Platform

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 15, 2023
We use IBM Cognos Analytics internally to provide reporting, dashboarding, and analytical insights about our business. We also implement the solution in conjunction with our clients to help gain more effective business insights. It provides our clients and users with up-to-date dashboards and reports connecting to a wide variety of data sources.
  • Enterprise reporting
  • Interactive dashboarding
  • Data exploration
IBM Cognos Analytics is well suited for organisations that need both mode 1 and mode 2 analytics. It provides enterprise reporting capability combined with interactive dashboarding capabilities for self service analysis of data. It supports both on premise and cloud based deployments and connects well to other IBM solutions for example IBM Planning Analytics

Cognos Analytics for Enterprise reporting

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 10, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
25 years of experience
Cognos Analytics is an Enterprise Reporting and Analytics platform supporting a wide range of use cases and business value. Cognos Analytics supports a centralized semantic layer that enables broad access to governed data in a way that makes content creation easy for a variety of user abilities and content types.
  • Common metadata platform that enables reporting, dashboards, ad hoc access and advanced capabilities
  • integrates well with a broad range of databases, authentication providers
  • provides content creation capabilities at different levels of complexity to make more people with a range of skills productive.
Where governed enterprise reporting is important, where IT skills are mature and capable, where well designed, highly formatted and advanced reports are important, where data modelling skills are well developed, where data analysts and data engineers work well together.

Congrats on Cognos

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 12, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
3 years of experience
I used Cognos for my reporting and dashboarding to create, modify, delete for different teams and applications within the organization. The clients were mostly insurance based and required scheduling and troubleshooting services with respect to Cognos. Query studio was used for ad hoc reporting or one time use reports, while Report Studio was used for complex and demanding reports that will be used for a long duration.
  • Reporting Tabular Format
  • Arrangement and Alignment
  • Ad Hoc Reporting.
  • Access to multiple datasets and restrictions based control
Reporting whose demands are not too high but simple tabulated format which can be used for over several years. Also adhoc reporting using Query Studio is better in making short time reports. Other options where it lacks is Dashboarding where I would prefer Tableau or PowerBI

Powerful analytics platform

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 31, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
4 years of experience
We use IBM Cognos Analytics to analyse user data and customer trends to make forecasts and data-driven decisions. We use the builtin AI Chatbot to get better insights from data using plain english.
  • AI chatbot provides an excellent user experience for the researcher
  • Very good looking reports
  • Forecasting
  • Security
Well suited for complex businesses with a lot of data: financial sector, healthcare, etc. Can generate comprehensive reports and forecasts.

Less apropiate in a scenario where you want to use it for a small startup that lacks a significant amount of data to analyse.

Cognos Analytics Is Good

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 22, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
15 years of experience
We use CA for analyis as well as operational reporting and support an extranet for group and provider utilization reporting.
  • emailed delivery
  • operational reporting
  • dashboarding
For users who are not tech savy, having reporting emailed to them is a nice touch. However these same users need a better/less complicated way to design their own adhoc reports (ie, Query Studio). The new Reporting interface is too complex for casual users.

IBM Cognos can't be beat for customer satisfaction

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 21, 2023
SL
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
10 years of experience
We encourage all users of our EHS platform to use Cognos and we provide base reports, dashboards, and training for every user that wants it. Our Cognos implementation gives a holistic Organization-wide view to the Executive team and also provides granular, real-time data to managers etc.
  • Subscribe reports via email
  • Manage users and security
  • Provide governed data via packages
Comparing the "Big 3", Cognos has the bases covered. No other solution provides *all* of the benefits. User adoption/training is key, once users can build or even just modify reports and dashboards, merging their own datasets to governed corporate data, and setting subscriptions (via email) they are thrilled. Implementing Cognos has satisfied 99% of requests/complaints from our customers regarding access to their data!

Good for single tenant, need more work on mutli-tenant

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 21, 2023
JN
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cognos Analytics
20 years of experience
We used IBM Cognos Analytics as our reporting solution for our application through API.
  • Ongoing release and upgrades
  • Customer support
  • scalable solutions
Will recommend for their dashboard and active reports. for 3rd party application call through API, will not recommend since it all required paid services for support.
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