Fantastic Enterprise Reporting Platform
January 28, 2022
Fantastic Enterprise Reporting Platform
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Analysis Studio
- Event Studio
- Query Studio
- Report Studio
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson
Our team works across all industry verticals implementing IBM Cognos Analytics solutions for other companies.
Working with our clients, we design and implement Cognos into their organisation and build the solutions that help them gain more effective business insights. This includes building data models, reports and interactive dashboards to provide users with up-to-date information.
Working with our clients, we design and implement Cognos into their organisation and build the solutions that help them gain more effective business insights. This includes building data models, reports and interactive dashboards to provide users with up-to-date information.
- Advanced reporting
- Scheduling and burst report distribution
- Simplified development for end users with its drag and drop functionality
- Delivery in multiple formats
- Works across multiple databases and flexibility to join data
- License costs. Far too expensive for the small to medium size businesses.
- Visualizations. Lacking when compared to Power BI.
- Stability and bugs. Whilst it's inventible there will be bugs, the fix lists for v11 series contain far too many issues that should really have been detected during their QA testing. This becomes a major issue for clients that have thousands of users and cannot constantly be applying fix pack after fix pack.
- No completely free version for developers. IBM should follow Microsoft's approach with Power BI
- Quicker report development time
- Reduced costs with automated scheduling of reports
Allowing business users the ability to build their own reports reduces the burden on the developers within the IT department and demonstrates how Cognos provides a fantastic return on investment.
Security of the reports and platform is critical when rolling out any reporting solution. With Cognos seamlessly integrating with Active Directory and having Single Signon, security can be handled in one location and modified accordingly as part of the joiners, movers and leavers process.
Implementing row level security into the framework models provides confidence that when users are building their own reports, they are seeing the data that they're authorised to see.
Implementing row level security into the framework models provides confidence that when users are building their own reports, they are seeing the data that they're authorised to see.
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?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Cognos Analytics again?
Yes