Best BI Tool for Enterprises
March 28, 2018
Best BI Tool for Enterprises
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Analysis Studio
- Event Studio
- Query Studio
- Report Studio
- Framework Manager
- Metrics Studio
- PowerPlay Studio
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos
IBM Cognos used across my whole organization from everything related to operation reporting to financial reporting that gets seen by C-level personnel. The key problem that IBM Cognos addresses is the data or information visibility problem that exists between the boardroom and the factory floor.
- IBM Cognos used was used to for automated delivery of reporting for backorders of specialty products that needed special handling by the customer service department.
- IBM Cognos used was used to for pixel perfect reporting that was part of the month-end or year-end executive board book.
- IBM Cognos was used to deliver external reporting to customers/vendors/distributors to check on the health of the rented equipment.
- IBM Cognos could use an update on the backend side, it does well in the cloud, but a switch to RestAPIs for data access would be nice.
- IBM Cognos could have better documentation on the proven practice configuration of components on lesser used OSs.
There are a number of reporting systems, but these other systems are really data visualization systems that lack the ability deliver information through an enterprise on their own. IBM Cognos is well suited to be the delivery system for an enterprise's analytics and the solutions ability to access and model data from a wide range of on-premise and cloud data sources makes it best-of-breed when it comes to implementation flexibility.