Cognos is a great enterprise tool
February 25, 2019
Cognos is a great enterprise tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Analysis Studio
- Event Studio
- Report Studio
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos
IBM Cognos is being used by our organization across multiple applications and teams. It is used by the whole organization. We use it to capture customer information, our team performance in handling customers' belongings and performance as a whole across different departments.
- IBM cognos is great as an enterprise tool.
- Being able to create cubes and packages that can be used to pull exactly what you want to see specific to your group.
- IBM Cognos allows multiple users to go in and change the report in a way that they want to see without changing the data that is provided to everyone as a whole.
- IBM Cognos has room for improvement in its charts and graphs. They are awesome on their own but compared to Tableau fall a little short.
- The speed of IBM Cognos could run faster, however considering the amount of data it is able to pull without slowing down makes up for the overall slower processing.
- The ease of setup and usage has a bigger learning curve compared to similar reporting products but once again the return on effort makes it worth that steep curve.
IBM Cognos stacks up against Tableau from my experience in that it performs better with larger amounts of data and it works well with other tools to use the data or pull the data from. I selected IBM Cognos because of the ease of having users create their own views from the cubes that you build.
IBM Cognos Analytics Feature Ratings
Using IBM Cognos
1001 - The business funtion that our business represents is travel
200 - The types of people and skills required to support IBM Cognos very vastly across the organization. We have IT, business analysts and more all using IBM Cognos.
- The organization could incorporate Watson and start doing predictive analytics.
- We could use Cognos for other departments that are not already using the tool.
- We could merge the reports in Cognos from other teams to get a greater more developed picture of the organization.
- The most important case for this product is analytics.
- We also use it for dashboards viewed across the organization.
- Also, we use it for ad-hoc reports that are requested on the spur of the moment.
- We have been able to show drill down dashboards for more detailed reports.
- It is easy to change a report to see exactly what you want to view.
- Everyone is able to use the tool in the organization because it is an enterprise version and on the web so you do not need to download and license every computer.