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IBM Cognos Analytics Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.8 out of 10
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7.8 out of 10
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Pros

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.

Reviews

155 Reviews

IBM Cognos Analytics - Wonder

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Cognos Analytics as part of various leadership reports and insights. The business problem we address is how effective our inventory is flowing and what inventory is in more demand and which location.

Pros

  • Data Cleansing
  • Visual Graphs
  • Predictive Analytics

Cons

  • Performance
  • GenAI based SQL instructions

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I am likely to recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague For enterprise grade data. In my experience, IBM Cognos Analytics is good and the dashboard stories can be created with best visuals,

RR
Ranjit R Puthenpuramodyil
Principal at Toshiba (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
10 years of experience
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IBM Cognos Analytics is the Best Buy for your money

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cognos Analytics for Running entire reporting for 3k users

Pros

  • Reporting
  • Crosstabs
  • Data modules

Cons

  • Dashboards
  • interoperability with planning

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I would likely recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague by saying that I work with IBM Cognos Analytics since 20 years and, I think IBM Cognos Analytics fits every need u might could have

BO
Bernd Oerthle
Head of analytic infrastructure in Engineering at ALH Gruppe (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
20 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

IBM Cognos Analytics

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, IBM Cognos Analytics is used for to produce asset reports and asset utilization reports.

Pros

  • Easy to arrange data in a report
  • Creation of automated reports
  • Easy to use user interface while developing reports

Cons

  • Takes some cycles to learn the product
  • In turn takes time to teach other co-workers how to use the software

Likelihood to Recommend

It is likely that I would recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague because I think IBM Cognos Analytics is Well suited for enterprise level asset reporting.

VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
2 years of experience

IBM Cognos Analytics - The Best BI Platform on the Market

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cognos Analytics for Inventory, financial, and historical reporting and dashboarding.

Pros

  • Scheduling
  • Modeling
  • Interoperability

Cons

  • 2FA with other authenticators
  • Interconnection with other applications like PA on Cloud Hosted

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I am likely to recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague because it is Easy to use, develop in and obtain the output that I need.

DP
Dion Paul
Business Intelligence Administrator in Information Technology at AscendSC (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
23 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

IBM Cognos Analytics Composolutions

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This software has great benefits, but especially for the BI and data mining aspects, but all focused on the decision-making aspect within our company.

Este software tiene grandes bondades pero mas para la parte del BI, la explotacion de Datos pero todo enfocado a la parte de la toma de decisions dentro de nuestra Empresa.

Pros

  • decision making
  • Data mining
  • Executive reports
  • Toma de decisiones
  • Explotacion de datos
  • Reportes ejecutivos

Cons

  • Creation of reports
  • Connection to different sources
  • Creation de reportes
  • Connexion a diferentes fuentes

Likelihood to Recommend

Decision making is good but less so for data mining or marketing.

Toma de decisiones es bueno pero menos para mineria e Datos o mkt

<i>This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.</i>

EV
Eduardo Valadez
Pre Sales in Engineering at Compusoluciones (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
5 years of experience

Visualizations made easy

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cognos Analytics for Data reporting, tracking personnel, supply chain timelines, etc.

Pros

  • Building meaningful dashboards
  • Data Staging

Cons

  • Performance with large datasets
  • Steep learning curve

Likelihood to Recommend

I think I am likely to recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague by telling them that As someone who doesn't enjoy creating visual dashboards. IBM Cognos Analytics makes it simple to create visually apealling products

VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
11 years of experience

IBM Cognos Analytics

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using IBM Cognos Analytics since its creation. 1000's of reports are run on a daily basis as well as 1000's are run through the scheduler built into IBM Cognos Analytics. IBM Cognos Analytics offers triggering thru the scheduler which we use to confirm the completion or other processes completing the data collection needed to be available before the job is scheduled to run.

Pros

  • runs scheduled reports
  • emails output or link to output
  • connects with many products

Cons

  • easier to customize

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cognos Analytics suits our needs for 1000's of reports and information needed daily to keep our business running as smooth as possible daily.

VU
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
24 years of experience

Cost effective insight sharing to multiple user networks

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cognos Analytics has been used for several years, and it helps us achieve more than just BI goals. From commissioning to business insight to strategical planning, IBM Cognos Analytics is a very powerful tool and I can't wait to see what's coming next!

Pros

  • Static reporting
  • Semantic modeling
  • Data connection

Cons

  • AI integration

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for static reporting as well as dynamic uses, leveraging the same semantic model. All that in a cost effective way that's hard to compete!

VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
2 years of experience

IBM Cognos Analytics Good Value

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, I use IBM Cognos Analytics for analyzing operational data

Pros

  • Data Visualization
  • AI Summaries

Cons

  • Chat with you data, supported data types

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I am likely to recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague because I think IBM Cognos Analytics is Good for generating routine company reports and defining standard metrics for the organization.

VU
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
IBM Cognos Analytics
1 year of experience

The Best of the Best compared to the Rest

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to support metrics reporting, dashboarding, and general end user reporting requirements. We receive many ad-hoc requests for statistics and metrics from executive leadership, and I use IBM Cognos Analytics to deliver that reporting in a quick, efficient, and trusted manner.

Pros

  • Access multiple data sources intuitively
  • Provide unlimited formatting and presentation capability
  • Handle complete calculations and conditions effortlessly

Cons

  • Functional equivalency with IBM Cognos Analytics and CP4D
  • Require less footprint/resources for CP4D

Likelihood to Recommend

It's enterprise grade and time tested. Uses modern architecture and is always improving.

VU
Verified User
Director in Engineering (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
IBM Cognos Analytics
30 years of experience