Cognos works mostly | TrustRadius

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cognos is being used for operations, business analytics, planning, business improvement, and budget forecasting to name a few.

Pros and Cons

Cognos scheduler works pretty well by sending out reports to groups of users successfully and reliably.
Cognos framework is pretty effective for modeling data for us.
Report Studio is fairly reliable and works most of the time.

There are missing DB2 functions in Cognos that would be useful to have but most of the time I can program around it.
Event studio could be better, it takes forever to load and crashes frequently.
Error reporting in Cognos is notoriously non descriptive and very useless. I don't even count on them for much of the troubleshooting I do.

Data Integration

7

It is useful for connecting to many different data sources.

Collaboration and Sharing

4

I don't think reports are easy to share between team members and we often have issues with the same reports being worked on simultaneously.

Likelihood to Recommend