Rich and scalable platform for Analytics
October 20, 2020

Rich and scalable platform for Analytics

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Report Studio

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics

Our company provides banking solutions to many financial institutes in Europe. IBM Cognos Analytics is the primary platform we provide to this institutes for analyzing their business and clients. With a large number of standard Reports many areas are addressed. Additionally we provide packages for building individual Reports. We also use IBM Cognos Analytics for internal Reporting solutions.
  • Powerful Report Authoring solution.
  • Debugging is not easy or at least cumbersome.
  • Broad Technology platform that allows focusing on analyzing the business topics.
  • Self Service reporting reduced costs for preparing pre-built-reports.
Self-service BI is an integral part of the overall Analytics solution we provide to our customers. Providing access to all relevant data through packages allows building individual reports for a wide range of business issues.
Security-Controls on data are very important in the financial industy. Cognos Analytics provides rich functionality in this area that we actively use in our solution to ensure that every users sees only the appropriate data.
IBM Cognos Analytics works well for intermediate to expert users.
Report consumption is easy for less experienced users as well, but for building individual reports some learning efforts are required.

IBM Cognos Analytics Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
7
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
8
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
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
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated