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Versatile platform that facilitates data visualization and analysis
Updated March 26, 2023

Versatile platform that facilitates data visualization and analysis

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 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

IBM Cognos Analytics offers the ability to drive the productive growth of our company, with its versatile features that optimize decision making that positively impact the performance of the company, allowing to adjust plans and forecasts in real time. We use this platform to optimize future actions to be taken, based on accurate and reliable data. It allows us to create visually pleasing dashboards, presenting data that significantly facilitates its analysis, processed with a high level of security. This platform offers real-time information that allows you to adapt strategies based on accurate and reliable data.
  • Allows you to easily create interactive and intuitive dashboards
  • Its user interface is visually very pleasant and easy to use
  • Allows to obtain very complete reports, which improves our planning process
  • Provides accurate forecasting powered by artificial intelligence
  • Its cost which is significantly high
  • It requires training for beginners to handle its full potential
  • Ensures secure and efficient use of data
  • It is a highly scalable platform and improves decision making
  • It has the ability to generate a highly collaborative workflow
This is a BI solution that has versatile and robust capabilities, offers a customized experience and a very easy to use interface.
The self-service capabilities of this platform allow users to build their own dashboards, reports and scorecards in a simple, intuitive and secure way. It also provides ease of use for advanced data analysis.
The security features offered by this platform in data management greatly reduce risks and allow reliable access to data.
This platform offers excellent collaborative capabilities, which facilitate quick and easy delivery of generated reports. IBM Cognos provides flexibility and fluidity in reporting.

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

This platform has the ability to strengthen decision making and facilitate the creation of strategies based on effective data analysis, allowing to improve the overall performance of the organization. It is suitable for creating customized, attractive and intuitive reports, which can be shared quickly and easily. In addition to generating dynamic visualizations to improve our forecasting. Due to the effective data management it offers, this platform allows to understand more accurately what is happening in the company, revealing hidden problems and facilitating their effective correction.

IBM Cognos Analytics Feature Ratings

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9.3
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
8.8
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
9
9.0
Publish to PDF
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
8.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
9
8.8
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
8.7
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
9
9.0
REST API
9
Javascript API
9

Scalability and Accessibility

It is very useful, allowing you to efficiently merge data from different sources, generating a lot of versatility and flexibility.
The entire process of importing data from CSV files and spreadsheets runs smoothly and securely.
It is very significant to use the mobile access it offers, allowing access to data anywhere and at any time.
This platform stands out for its ease of use, among other features. It has a lot of potential and it is easy to manage the whole set of tools.
This platform achieves high scalability.