IBM Cognos is a Great Tool with the Appropriate User Privileges
February 25, 2016
IBM Cognos is a Great Tool with the Appropriate User Privileges
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Query Studio
- Report Studio
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos
IBM Cognos is used by departments as a reporting query tool for reporting on institution data. Data being analyzed is from the Student Information System (PeopleSoft) where we extrapolate data on students' enrollments, enrollment caps, average enrollments, demographic data (race, age, geographic, level of education, etc.) . It flags high or under performing course offerings and academic departments (as a whole).
- IBM Cognos allows the administration to make certain data available based on individual rights, privileges, and exclude data that they should not be viewing.
- IBM Cognos allows the institution to easily label high or under performing departments so that the marketing teams can promote programs with high demands.
- IBM Cognos provides collections of required data, but graphs and table functionality should be improved. As this functionality isn't extremely helpful, data is exported to other programs do produce charts and tables as needed.
- Functionality to flag inconsistencies with various query outputs. Within the user interface it would be helpful to see where databases need to be reviewed and/or updated to reflect consistency.
- Include options, to users with limited customization privileges, to request output customizations or changes to database fields directly from the GUI.
IBM Cognos made it easy to request data that was needed. With PeopleSoft, our IT department needed to be involved/was required so that in-house programmers could design code and queries in order to be able to review the data. Excluding this extra step made productivity much higher and data more accessible.