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.
Good BI tool for advanced analytics.
It's like a Swiss Army knife for our data
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Great Data Visual tool that's let down by lack of integrations & customer support.
IBM Cognos for Automation, Business Performance Insights, and Advanced Learning
Unlocking Business Insights with IBM Cognos Analytics
IBM Cognos Analytics: The best blend of PowerBI, Tableau & Qlik
Best Business AI Tool
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Great for data analysis
Best translation of AI into Business Analytics
Powerful and reliable BI tool
IBM Cognos Analytics Review
Data unification capacity, great help to the end user in the creation of the final report.
How IBM Cognos Analytics Differs From Its Competitors
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its a time saver and changes in at any point of time is best part.
its query studio is very simple and dynamic.
we got many adhoc and in built functionality as well here .
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Popular Features
- Formatting capabilities (102)8.181%
- Drill-down analysis (101)8.181%
- Report Delivery Scheduling (100)8.080%
- Customizable dashboards (99)7.878%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
On Demand - Standard
$10.00
On Demand - Premium
$40.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $10 per month per user
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.
- 8.5Pixel Perfect reports(92) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 7.8Customizable dashboards(99) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 7.4Report Formatting Templates(96) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 8.1Drill-down analysis(101) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 8.1Formatting capabilities(102) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 7.8Integration with R or other statistical packages(71) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 8.4Report sharing and collaboration(99) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 8.3Publish to Web(27) Ratings
- 8.7Publish to PDF(97) Ratings
- 8.6Report Versioning(26) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 8Report Delivery Scheduling(100) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 8.1Delivery to Remote Servers(12) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
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.
- 8Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(88) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 8.2Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(85) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 8.1Predictive Analytics(81) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
- 8Pattern Recognition and Data Mining(20) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 8.4Multi-User Support (named login)(95) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 8.3Role-Based Security Model(94) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 8.2Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(94) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 8.4Report-Level Access Control(23) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
- 8.3Single Sign-On (SSO)(76) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 7.9Responsive Design for Web Access(75) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 7.3Mobile Application(66) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 8.1Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(72) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another
- 7.3REST API(57) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
- 7.5Javascript API(56) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
- 8.3iFrames(9) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
- 6.9Java API(11) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
- 7.1Themeable User Interface (UI)(10) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
- 7.8Customizable Platform (Open Source)(7) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Product Details
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What is IBM Cognos Analytics?
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 Integrations
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IBM Cognos Analytics Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Countries | Global |
Supported Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew, Urdu, Farsi |
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(579)Attribute Ratings
- 9.7Likelihood to Renew27 ratings
- 8.6Availability4 ratings
- 9Performance5 ratings
- 8Usability8 ratings
- 10Support Rating8 ratings
- 8Online Training4 ratings
- 8.7In-Person Training4 ratings
- 7Implementation Rating7 ratings
- 8Configurability2 ratings
- 8.3Product Scalability3 ratings
- 7.3Ease of integration3 ratings
- 7Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 7Vendor post-sale1 rating
- 2.5Data Visualization4 ratings
- 8.3Data Sources40 ratings
- 8.6Data Sharing and Collaboration40 ratings
- 8.7IBM Cognos Reporting 4.14.2157 ratings
- 8.3IBM Cognos Data Modeling 4.14.212 ratings
Reviews
(26-50 of 126)- Allows you to easily create interactive and intuitive dashboards
- Its user interface is visually very pleasant and easy to use
- Allows to obtain very complete reports, which improves our planning process
- Provides accurate forecasting powered by artificial intelligence
- Its cost which is significantly high
- It requires training for beginners to handle its full potential
- Predictive data analysis is intuitive and with real-time results.
- Easy obtaining and customization of reports.
- Better decision making, is a software capable of simplifying our work and improving our productivity, since errors are minimized.
- It's not a very flashy looking piece of software, but it ticks the boxes for functionality, and for first-time users, just a quick workout is easy to pick up.
- Expert help should be sought for configuration.
Excellent solution even for Medium & Small Startups
- Clean data
- Produce ad-hoc reports
- Dashboards
- Data analysis
- Marketing
- Better Excel integration
- Price
Versatile and next generation BI tool.
- IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson has enabled self-serve for multiple business units and vendors as well who would like to invest data for their strategic business Operations view.
- geographical integration and multiple graphs help with next generation visualizations.
- Can have better integration options for MS native tools which may be .net based while Cognos is Java based.
- Easier process to import external data and model examples that can be used for different industries.
- Greater flexibility to be able to move from in-Prem to cloud and retention of the features brought from in-Prem version of the tool like query studio etc
IBM Cognos- Data Visualisation Tool and more
- Integration of different file formats
- Easy to use interface
- Easily sync able to cloud so you can access the files with your IBM account anywhere.
- The interface is easy but it is somewhat inferior when compared to other analytics softwares
- The price is expensive in comparison to peers
- Requires fast internet to operate smoothly. No desktop version
Worthy intelligence and analytics tool
- It utilizes AI and normal language handling to prescribe experiences and activities to clients, assisting us with settling on better choices quicker.
- It consequently identifies examples and patterns in information, so we can rapidly uncover significant experiences with negligible exertion
- It gives a scope of perception choices, so we can rapidly and effectively envision the information and gain bits of knowledge that may somehow be challenging to uncover
- It has a few in-built incorporations, however they are normally restricted to a couple of items and administrations.
- Another region where it could be improved is the versatility of its examination capacities. IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson offers a few strong insightful capacities, yet they are not generally so far reaching as a portion of its rivals
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson Review
prior to that I don’t have any knowledge about Cognos so got in-house training.
I don’t found it very difficult to learn and adapt.
Actually its very easy to learn and we can get everything we want under one roof.
- Reporting
- Scheduling
- Framework manager
- Visually less appealing as compared to tableau
Can create separate queries for each view.
we can do the report scheduling which is not available in other BI Tools and less expensive as compared to Tableau
Cognos Analytics to the Next Level and Beyond
Forecasting
Automated delivery of reports
Report bursting
- Dashboarding
- Reporting
- Forecasting
- Ease of installation
- Features of Motio PI, such as change of schedule run credentials, should be part of the product.
Drill through from PA cube report to relational database report
Organisation data Search engine
- Corporate business hierarchical analysis
- Deposit and Loans Scenario
- Customer transaction trend analysis
- Integrated channels performance analysis
- Deviation analysis
- Income and expenditure analysis
- Graphical representation similar to Qlikview and Microsoft
- Graphs are slightly difficult to use
- Large size data not supported sometime
- On prem SSAS connectivity issues
- SAP Sybase connectivity issues
- Procs having #tables can not accessible in query
- 64bit JDBC with SQL Server is missing
And organisation want a single platform having capability of merging and joining different and difficult data sources, Cognos will be the good choice
Good product, deserves more attention
- AI New now with local languages supported
- Releases frequent releases
- Total Integration from dat to insight
- Administration tools (require urgent improvement)
- Eventstudio
- More focus on user needs instead focus on improvement of the user interface. (This cost 4 releases....)
Great Reporting Software
- Good for combining data sources
- Good data visulizations
- Easy to manage permissions
- You have to really understand the underlying data structure before you use it
- It can be hard to learn at first
- It can be glitchy sometimes
The Real AI and automation in Data Analytics Market
- Extracting huge amount of data in a precise manner.
- The time taken to get a report is pretty less compares to other
- And the automation and the AI is really advanced the system knows what I really want
- If a report got malfunctioned it need so much time to resolve that issue.
- Server Log out issue if using two study at a time
- Sometimes the data analytics part stuck in between
Models Optimization in a Robust Approach.
- IBM explainable AI makes it easy to to comprehend the AI models.
- Optimization dashboards allow sharing of the models' results with the team to enhance collaboration.
- Search engine displaying data elements is still not available on version 11.1.7.
Powerful BI tool with AI capabilities
- Self Services Reporting.
- Scheduling and automations.
- Reporting and Data Visuals.
- Better compatibility with available browsers.
- Companion applications are restricted to use with Firefox only.
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson..More than a dashboard
- AI - The Assistant
- Explore Capabilities
- Forecasting using AI
- The range of visualisations needs to be expanded
- Report modules need to be easier
IBM Cognos Analytics get reports the way you need them.
- Reporting
- Schedule report delivery
- Many different ways and formats for reports.
- Users are able to schedule there own reports.
- Dashboard for users.
- Administration interface needs improvement.
- It would be nice f reports had more of a drag and drop for users to create reports.
A reliable BI solution.
- Visualization tools.
- Connects to hundreds of data sources.
- Easy to execute queries.
- Easy to create charts, graphs and reports.
- Not a good IDE for Python/R
Cognos Analytics is great tool, but creating complex reports requires time and competence
- Dashboard
- Multi-page reporting
- Report distributing
- Data connectivity options
- AI assistant
- Easier ways to manage very complex reports
- Prompts should be more dynamic and way to make dynamic pre-select for example based on the current calendar year.
- Dimensional reporting
Sharing reports is possible, easy and effective.
- It is a reliable and scalable platform.
- It offers data connectors including SQL Server, CSV, Excel, and more.
- Multiple integrations.
- Flexible deployment options.
- Does not provide a free trial.
- It is difficult to learn.
- It is not easy to use and implement for non-technical users.
My current client is a large pharmaceutical company who uses IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson across multiple divisions. I've been brought in to help with the finance team.
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is flexible enough to make their reporting do everything they want. A major focus was ensuring high visibility reports work on mobile devices. Because IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson allows JavaScript and lets authors directly define HTML, I can make responsive reports that behave perfectly for any sized screen.
Another focus was expanding the default functionality in IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson through a series of JavaScript controls. Writing back directly to TM1, sending users emails from a button inside the report, or exporting reports to PowerPoint, the API available in IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson makes writing these controls quick and easy.
- Pixel perfect reports. If a client can provide a pixel-perfect mockup, I can make the report indistinguishable from the mockup.
- Data security. It doesn't matter who the user is; when they log in and run a report, they will only see the data they are permitted to see.
- Performant reports on large data. Many tools have issues running on tables containing only a few million rows. Cognos can consistently run reports on multi-billion row tables without issue.
- Embedding reports in third-party tools. With Cognos Mashup Services, it is possible to build a report in IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson and call it programmatically. Need straight HTML? No problem. JSON? Atom? All good.
- Data modules still can't match the flexibility of the framework manager. When dealing with large data models, or multi-grain, FM still wins.
- The new native graphs, while pretty, still can't match the version 10 graphs in terms of flexibility or options. It is possible to import third-party graphs, but it's a pain.
- Some functionality, like version control, is only available through third parties. Motio or BSP.
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson - adaptable to different situations and data processing environments.
- Integrated ETL tools.
- Data export in multiple formats (PDF, Excel and CSV)
- Fast and accurate data recovery.
- Less expensive.
- Scalability and flexibility to work.
- Does not support multidimensional analysis.
You can efficiently discover, access, and merge your data with IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson
- data connectors.
- Collaboration.
- Data preparation.
- NLP consultations
- Integration with Excel.
- Cloud-ready reports.
- Support in other languages is of limited access.
A great tool for end-users with exceptional potential.
- Data visualization.
- Predictive analytics.
- Automatically finding relationships.
- The price is a little high from what I've gathered. It's not really an option if you're not at least a mid-sized organization.
Pixel Perfect Enterprise Reporting Tool
- Importing and modifying metadata
- Create queries for use in GUI
- Print Friendly Report
- The new UI requires more clicks compared to previous version
- Dashboards require more color options
- Learning curve to use is still high compared to other products
IBM Cognos Analytics for Business Users
- Analyze data
- Reporting
- Dashboarding
- Self service
- Adhoc capability
- Improve Excel integration
- Improve dashboard experience
- Better online training videos