Cognos is a fantastic tool with plenty of possibilities
March 30, 2021
Cognos is a fantastic tool with plenty of possibilities
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Analysis Studio
- Event Studio
- Query Studio
- Report Studio
- Dashboard
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics
IBM Cognos Analytics is used in the whole organisation for Tactical and Strategical purposes. I am in the Business Intelligence Team and we produce Reports and Dashboards. We also use Jobs and Events to launch it when the ETL jobs finish to load the target tables. [With] the product we can report on activities and financials data.
- Creating Reports
- Creating Dashboards
- Drill throught from one report or dashboard to a detailed report
- Add extension to add new reporting possibilities to the product
- Some earlier versions comes with bugs more than before with Cognos 10
- Advanced reporting need experienced user
- Dashboards are difficult to be correctly sized into a page
- Time saved
- Creating reports and Dashboard are easy
- Easy access to the tool
The product IBM Cognos Analytics contains so many features that it can respond to any demands. It has Reports, Dashboards, Packages, Data Modules, Data Sets, Jobs, Events, external data files, Direct DB connections,... When other are limited. For example, Qlik Sense allow to build very nice and fast report but is not easy to get in hands. For example, adding metadata referencing target data need to know a SQL and specifics language and is not easy to users not in the IT department, while Cognos is more easy to use. Also, Cognos has an easy reporting scheduler with possibility to send report to a folder or by email (+ bursting, events, ....)
Cognos has an easy reporting scheduler with possibility to send report to a folder or by email.
For advanced reporting, we can also add directly an SQL statement using the defined connection to our datawarehouse.
For advanced reporting, we can also add directly an SQL statement using the defined connection to our datawarehouse.
With Cognos, we can create groups and roles to grant access for users to folders or reports in the portal.
So you can activate some data for specific people.
So you can activate some data for specific people.