Good business analyst tool to connect datasets and visualization

IBM Cognos Analytics is widely used by business analysts as a way to build dashboards and for data-analytic work. While other job families such as data scientists are using Python and Jupyter Notebook to connect data and visualization. The tools make easy connections with your database if your work scope is within the services that it provides.

Under the condition that the data cleansing and data analysis/visualization are very standard, the tool does speed up the data processing data. However, for important and inconsistent data cleansing, it requires lots of manual processing, and using the tool might lead to some serious damage to the data and bad business decisions.

This functionality definitely helps us to understand the data and perform data governance controls but it requires manual effort to check the data for monitoring. However, using python to do the data transformation in the first place, we need to spend much more time but save lots of time by leaving integration time for the monitoring.