Powerful BI tool with AI capabilities
March 31, 2022

Powerful BI tool with AI capabilities

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Analysis Studio
  • Event Studio
  • Query Studio
  • Report Studio
  • Dashboard
  • Data Module

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson

I use IBM Cognos Analytics extensively for developing queries, reports, dashboards, visualizations, FM models, data models, and administration and scheduling automations for reporting objects. It's widely used across the business on different levels and helping business users and stack holders with analyzing data, decision making, budgeting, and administrative processes.
  • Self Services Reporting.
  • Scheduling and automations.
  • Reporting and Data Visuals.
  • Better compatibility with available browsers.
  • Companion applications are restricted to use with Firefox only.
  • Definitively Time Saving.
  • Summary and Detail Data Presentations and visualizations.
IBM Cognos Analytics can handle larger datasets easily and has better performance than other BI tools.
These self-service capabilities are easy to use and allow business users to create their own reporting content for their business requirements. It has tremendously reduced work for developers and application administrators to engage with other productivities.
The data governance settings and tool capability management has given us the confidence to release various data sets for self-service reporting.
IBM Cognos Analytics has detailed control for overall data presentations and formatting capabilities which can be used with multiple data sources. Reporting capabilities provide many ways to customize report prompts, layouts, charts, crosstabs, bursting, and automatic schedules.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Cognos Analytics go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cognos Analytics again?

Yes

IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is best suited for Large Enterprise Level Data with AI capabilities. It may not be cost effective for small scale businesses.

IBM Cognos Analytics Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
7
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9
REST API
9
Javascript API
9