Cognos falling behind
December 07, 2017
Cognos falling behind
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Query Studio
- Report Studio
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos
IBM Cognos is used across the whole organization. It funnels down multiple databases to a standardize output and become report generating tool. It allows the editor with minimal sql coding skills to build reports across multiple sources. The downside is they do not provide cross packages report building, which we still ended up using additional tools to create the final reports. The additional tools I use, depending on the scale of the report, from basic Excel, Access, to Brio, SAS, SQL, to merge, integrate, clean data according to our need.
- Users need minimal coding skills
- Integrates multiple data sources
- Standardizes data items
- More Visual way to generate a report
- Not user-friendly, it still functions as if from the 90s.
- Too many odd bugs that users need to go around to avoid, especially now with the Cognos Analytic 10.
- Cognos does not allow cross packages data sourcing, which is a huge problem.
- The system functions like an old machine with a new wrapping.
- Tableau, Excel, Access, SQL and SAS
Tableau is amazing, user friend, innovative, straightforward in concept. Cognos does not stacks up against another software, it is more due to the insufficiency of this software that we need to accommodate with many others. Such as Excel, Access, SQL, SAS, Tableau. The load Cognos is taking in my position is becoming less and less.