Collaborative But Complicated
Updated November 16, 2019
Collaborative But Complicated
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Report Studio
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos
We use Cognos throughout our university. It houses shared frequently used reports for areas such as student records, financial aid, and human resources. Cognos serves as our data warehouse. We have connected it to Tableau Server in order to regularly refresh our Tableau visualizations.
- The prompts in Report Studio are easy for users to figure out.
- Cognos allows us to publish reports with a live data connection side-by-side with reports that use day-old data.
- The layout on the screen for changing the properties of a report is overwhelming. It's hard to remember where certain properties live.
- It's time-consuming to construct a prompt page and to match the formatting/branding of our previous reports. These types of things should be faster and easier.
We used to use Crystal Reports but transitioned our reports to Cognos when Crystal was no longer supported in conjunction with PeopleSoft. Crystal is a more flexible report-building tool for unique needs, but Cognos has better prompts and is a better server-style report repository for many users.