IBM Cognos analytics 10.2 - Admin review.
April 20, 2021

IBM Cognos analytics 10.2 - Admin review.

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

Modules Used

  • Analysis Studio
  • Event Studio
  • Query Studio
  • Report Studio
  • Framework manager
  • Transformer

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM [Cognos] Analytics help us to create reports, analysis across various data [departments].
We have created packages and cubes using the tools.
Matching source and target difference, generating balance reports.

  • Easy to generate reports
  • User friendly
  • Training user to analyses, running queries
  • User based licensing.
  • IBM service restart taking more time.
  • Various error when deploying SSO
  • Dashboard is only available in Cognos Business Intelligence not in Cognos Analytics, it is called as Workspace in Cognos Analytics.
  • PDF format mismatch sometime for some reports
  • Many advantages in Cognos BI 11.1.
Multiple data sources connection
Cross platform software.
Click and drag capabilities.
Less coding.
Easy to install and manage
Self service capabilties help end user to create their own report depend on the their requirement, which does not require burden for developer to create one for them & attending meeting
Help them to run their own job with schedule and automate it, not supported by IT anymore. they own [it] themselves.
Analytics help use to analyze data across various data sources, framework which we created for them help user to make their own data analyzes
Data governance is very important to our company.
Quality of the data depends on the data sources we use in [IBM Cognos Analytics], we have data governance department which help them to manage the purchase order, list of licensed users, it helps them to develop the process to maintain.
We always trust the data which is generated internally regardless of the tools used.
1) Help users to generate report & manage jobs.
2) Good access management.
3) AD controls.
4) Multiple data source connection.
5) Workspace help us to generate a good dashboard reporting.
I have used various reporting and analytics tool like SSRS, SAP
[IBM Cognos Analytics] is good among these, can able to connect all the data sources without issue like ODBC, JDBC.
I don't think it is less appropriate. it is highly recommended to use from my [perspective].

IBM Cognos Analytics Feature Ratings

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