IBM Congnos Analytics tool
March 25, 2025
IBM Congnos Analytics tool
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Event Studio
- Report Studio
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics
It addresses problems related to data warehousers, help with poor decision making, and difficulties in identifying trends and other potential opportunities. We utilize the tool within our organization to better understand data, make informed decisions, and that advantage of other features like reporting, modeling, analysis, dashboards, and AI powered insights to better track trends.
Pros
- We can make dozens of dispatchers all focusing on different types of workloads.
- Friendly user interface, without the need for coding or complicated editing.
- Highly functionality reporting tools.
- We can easily create trigger when a certain threshold are met sending reports or alerts to needed parties.
Cons
- Have to regularly checking official IBM channels or newsletters for updates and changes.
- The availability to work in a sandbox environments or trial versions of IBM Cognos Analytics to practice.
- Better for On-Prem vs cloud.
- The pricing is higher than some of their competitors.
- The platform can be pretty pricey.
- Convoluted contracts and they fine you for any breach during audits.
- Things are changed between releases without any warning and break.
- It is second to none at being able to customize list and crosstab type reports.
- You can easily set up a report to be emailed out every day and even have it export the report to a shared folder.
- On-prem environments can be scaled up pretty much as much as you would like.
One powerful feature not really talked about is Event Studio. It is a bit awkward to use, but it has some extremely powerful features. As the name implies, Event Studio operates on events. So certain tasks can be automatically run when defined conditions are met. For example, you can create something in Event Studio to automatically back up your reports, send out an email notification with dynamic text, call a web API, and then call a stored procedure with parameters.
Completely transparent to me, IBM Cognos Analytics would use the product type that I clicked on to filter the detailed report. Other tools have equivalent functionality, but I feel the parameter passing is more customizable and robust on IBM Cognos Analytics. I provided a simple example, but in more complex scenarios, it's nice to have more flexibility.
We selected IBM Cognos Analytics based on the following. The scalable and robust features for large organizations allowing it to grow as we do. The nest feature is the strong data governance and security features. It also supports a wide variety of data sources. Lastly, it offers both pre-defined and ad-hoc reporting capabilities.
Do you think IBM Cognos Analytics delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IBM Cognos Analytics's feature set?
Yes
Did IBM Cognos Analytics live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of IBM Cognos Analytics go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy IBM Cognos Analytics again?
Yes
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