Item: IBM Cognos Analytics
Rating: 9
Author: Nicholas Maeda

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson helps us understand our data. It is adaptable to different data processing scenarios and environments support various tools for back-end tasks such as data warehousing, data integration, data management, query language, ETL process, etc. Easily integrates with MS Excel and spreadsheets. Its amazing reporting feature helps to create very attractive custom dashboards. It allows powerful visualizations from our computer in a few seconds.

Pros and Cons

Integrated ETL tools.
Data export in multiple formats (PDF, Excel and CSV)
Fast and accurate data recovery.
Less expensive.
Scalability and flexibility to work.

Does not support multidimensional analysis.

Return on Investment

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson provides capabilities such as data analysis and reporting that work seamlessly for individuals, departments, and workgroups in all organizations and businesses.
Customizable and secure data exploration through NLP.
I can easily connect data analysis with ad-hoc reports.

Alternatives Considered

Unlike traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools, IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is geared toward enabling people from all walks of business to analyze information in an engaging way.

Self-Service

It provides practical data analysis to all departments of the company and provides the ability to access, understand and analyze data faster. What's more, it provides an analytics solution that is very easy to customize, integrate, and deploy.

Data Security and Quality

It fits well into the data processing paradigm, prioritizes flexibility, and has the ability to move data from one platform to another, adjust, and take advantage of new types of data.

Reporting

It is a very reliable interactive data visualization tool with which I can interact with the data, compare, etc. The reports that can be created with the tool are very visual, which makes it easy to quickly understand the data.

Other Software Used

Qlik Analytics Platform

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson offers the best performance with its features. It is a stable tool, it facilitates the storage and processing of data in companies. It is compatible with the popular RDBMS to handle data related to reporting and content management. It allows you to connect to any type of data source and also allows you to retrieve data from data sources.

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson - adaptable to different situations and data processing environments.

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson