Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos
IBM Cognos is being used in most departments (finance, accountancy, operational). It helps us get operational information and analysis as a whole.
- It works with different kinds of databases and allows us to join data.
- It allows us to provide data for internal/external users according to pre-configured Cognos security [settings] for users and data.
- Has good development tools for building business models and analysis.
- It has perfect delivery service of data in any formats.
- There aren't many versions of Cognos. I have worked in most of versions of Cognos, but I can observe how Cognos is improving in each new version.
- Microsoft Analysis Server
IBM Cognos is a separate product but it allows us to connect to any databases and databases from Microsoft Analysis Services as well. This feature made me choose Cognos.