IBM Cognos Analytics, in my opinion, legacy leader modern laggard
March 29, 2024
IBM Cognos Analytics, in my opinion, legacy leader modern laggard
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
Modules Used
- Report Studio
- Query Studio
- Event Studio
- Analysis Studio
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics
Primarily used for Dashboard and Report development with some level of self service capabilities.
- Tabular reports
- Dashboards
- Role based access controls
- AI integration
- Self Service reporting
- Introducing new charts and visuals
- As a question feature
- Collaboration
- Frequent upgrades
- Easy integration with Active Directory and optimized administration efforts
- Low maintenance and support cost
- Role based security implementation is not tedious
- Good ROI on basic tabular reports and statical dashboards
While there are claims for the AI integration and other aspects, the implementation of these are not easy and I have seen few success stories of the same. Data cleansing in a reporting tool is rather not recommended and should be done at data source or in data quality tools.
Security and access control based on department, role and user types is one of the key requirements for me. This is something IBM Cognos Analytics does quite well and easyly integrates with windows AD.
IBM Cognos Analytics is our legacy BI solution. It hadn't stacked up well against its modern contemporaries. We are thinking of replacing it with Microsoft BI.
Do you think IBM Cognos Analytics delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with IBM Cognos Analytics's feature set?
No
Did IBM Cognos Analytics live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of IBM Cognos Analytics go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Cognos Analytics again?
No