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Cognos too Powerful?
December 11, 2018

Cognos too Powerful?

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Analysis Studio
  • Event Studio
  • Query Studio
  • Report Studio

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos

We use Cognos as the primary business intelligence tool to ongoing and ad-hoc reporting. We are however transitioning to another BI tool
  • Self Service
  • Alerting
  • Scalability
  • Better visuals
  • Lower cost
  • Increased speed and performance
We actually selected Cognos, but had to switch to another BI tool due to cost reasons.
Very easy to connect to multiple data sources and views. Also modifying the data sources is easy as well.
Business users can create their own reports using query studio and share those results with others either via PDF or scheduling alerts.
Cognos would be best suited for a large enterprise that can have clear reporting requirements alongside engagement from the end business users. It is a fantastic tool that has most of everything a business user might need. But there is a steep ramp up period.

IBM Cognos Analytics Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.3
Pixel Perfect reports
5
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
9.8
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
9.4
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Delivery to Remote Servers
8
10.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Mobile Capabilities ()
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated