IBM Cognos Review
December 04, 2019

IBM Cognos Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Query Studio
  • Report Studio

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos

We were looking for a product to give us some great BI information and analytics. We did a POC of several different companies and chose to go with IBM. Their product is streamlined, easy to use and very modular. Several key departments first championed the product and once the reporting architecture was deployed, many other adopters started to use this product.
  • Reporting Analytics - Able to customize our reports depending on the reader and audience.
  • Business Key Intelligence with API - Able to interconnect it with multiple data sources.
  • Structural and maneuverable - The GUI is easy to transition from one screen to another and readable data keys
  • Pricing - You get what you pay for? We wanted to best and therefor you have to pay a little more. But we love it.
  • Structured Support - Tier pricing on support, domestic vs. international.
Cost wise, the above products are less expensive and offer tons more upfront, but you will pay for it on the back end. They have vendor limitations and their support mechanism was inline for what we wanted.
Its great being vendor agnostic and having the ability to pull from multiple areas.
This was superior in every facet of the application. Cross-pollinating application with data sources, ability to manage multiple role-based access with SSO and reporting for structure levels is key to its success. This product truly delivered.
The ability to receive multiple data sources from multiple vendors is the key to success. Being vendor agnostic has provided us valuable data that we couldn't achieve with just one tool.

IBM Cognos Analytics Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
REST API
8
Javascript API
8
iFrames
8
Java API
6
Themeable User Interface (UI)
7
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
6