High Quality Enterprise Analytics Platform
Updated November 15, 2023

High Quality Enterprise Analytics Platform

Nick Waters | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review

Modules Used

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

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics

We use IBM Cognos Analytics internally to provide reporting, dashboarding, and analytical insights about our business. We also implement the solution in conjunction with our clients to help gain more effective business insights. It provides our clients and users with up-to-date dashboards and reports connecting to a wide variety of data sources.
  • Enterprise reporting
  • Interactive dashboarding
  • Data exploration
  • Data connectivity
  • Dashboard performance
  • Data visualization
  • Easy access to TM1 data
  • Time to develop new report content
  • Time to develop new dashboards
IBM Cognos Analytics supports better enterprise connectivity than the competition. It supports on-premises and cloud deployments, regardless of cloud platform, and also provides its own SaaS cloud platform. Other tools are locked in to specific cloud platforms and are not as data agnostic as IBM Cognos Analytics and its wide range of deployment options.
IBM Cognos Analytics' data modules allow for basic data prep tasks and continue to evolve. They provide a good web-based environment to manage metadata and build out calculations and filters, which help improve self-service analytics for end users. The AI assistant is a nice enhancement in recent releases.
Data governance and controls are vital when rolling out an enterprise reporting, dashboarding, and analytics platform. IBM Cognos Analytics has always provided good and effective controls in this respect, which continue to be supported in newer releases. Security control also remains a strong capability, providing customers with the ability to secure content easily.
IBM Cognos Analytics is well suited for organisations that need both mode 1 and mode 2 analytics. It provides enterprise reporting capability combined with interactive dashboarding capabilities for self service analysis of data. It supports both on premise and cloud based deployments and connects well to other IBM solutions for example IBM Planning Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
6
Report sharing and collaboration
7
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
6
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
8
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
REST API
7
Javascript API
7