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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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IBM Cognos Analytics

8 out of 10
March 20, 2024
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Popular Features

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  • Formatting capabilities (103)
    8.1
    81%
  • Drill-down analysis (102)
    8.1
    81%
  • Report Delivery Scheduling (101)
    8.0
    80%
  • Customizable dashboards (100)
    7.8
    78%

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Pricing

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On Demand - Standard

$10.00

Cloud
per month per user

On Demand - Premium

$40.00

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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Product Demos

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

7.9
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8.1
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.3
Avg 8.4

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.

8.1
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

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

8.3
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.3
Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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

7.5
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

Additional Features

  • Supported: AI Forecasting

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 Publish to PDF highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of IBM Cognos Analytics are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cognos Analytics is a powerful tool that we use in our business to generate comprehensive reports and analytical insights from our financial information. Not only do we generate reports, but we also use it to create dynamic dashboards that our management team can use to monitor performance in real-time and identify emerging trends. This tool is not limited to a specific department. In fact, it is used across the entire business, especially when it comes to meeting our end-of-year reporting needs.
Dean Jones | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The business urgently required a consolidated repository of data, serving as the single source of truth. Such a platform would facilitate better decision making as now data can provide more accurate and comprehensive planning, budgeting, and forecasting, customizable to suit our distinct requirements, ensuring streamlined operations and informed decision-making across the different organisational units.
Hemant Chaturvedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cognos Analytics suite for developing Analytics solutions and consuming visualization reports and dashboards to get incredible insights from the collected application data.
Our clients appreciate the intuitive look and feel of the reporting solutions generated using this suite. It is an ideal choice among various enterprise grade business intelligence solutions like QlikSense, Tableau, Informatica etc.
March 20, 2024

Best Business AI Tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
March 20, 2024

IBM Cognos Analytics

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Thomas Baker, CFE, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Nick Waters | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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.
September 12, 2023

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Ah Hassan Rayon Hussain Mohammed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Rajeev Bagra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For visualizing and forecasting our in-house data as well clients' data. Earlier we use to rely on only Excel. Now, we find that Cognos Analytics blends nicely with Excel and has powerful AI features including AI Chatbot that can answer queries from the proprietary data raised in simple English. Powerful security features mean peace of mind.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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.
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