About IBM Cognos Analytics
Cognos Software by IBM is a family of business intelligence products with tailored solutions for businesses of all sizes. The software combines standard BI features such as reports, dashboards, advanced data visualization, real-time monitoring, analysis, and forecasting, with advanced features such as performance scorecards and strategy management, collaboration tools, and financial planning and analysis. You can also use Cognos to design automated workflows and data integrations.
The kinds of analysis you can carry out in Cognos include trend analysis, what-if analysis, and predictive analysis. You can build interactive dashboards in Cognos with moving data and collaboration tools such as comments and annotations. You can also build scorecards to monitor performance, measure KPIs against corporate objectives and develop strategy. Also included in the suite of products are solutions for sales compensation management, process automation, and planning & budgeting.
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- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Business Intellegnce Software with Standard Reporting And Self Service BI
Reviewed on 16/10/2018
Overall it is a great product to use
Overall it is a great product to use
Pros
Cognos Analytics is a flexible software for Standard Business Intelligence Reporting as well as for Self Service Data Visualization capability. You have the option to connect to a variety of the Data Sources as well as Multi-Dimensional Cubes. The new invention of Cognos Analytics software provides a greater flexibility for enterprise deployments and upgrades. It has the new feature of NLP (natural language processing) for predictive analytics by IBM Watson.
Cons
Too many modelling tools (Cognos FrameWork Manager, Dynamic Cube Designer, Cognos Transformer) for modelling the content. Too many studios (Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio) for report development. Maintainence and cost is huge
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Cognos Review
Reviewed on 18/11/2017
Overall, if there is a company that wishes to automate it's reports and improve efficiency across...
Overall, if there is a company that wishes to automate it's reports and improve efficiency across their organization, Cognos is a must-have tool. There is a bit of upfront cost involved to get the reports created in Cognos but the efficiency achieved is almost unparalleled.
Pros
Cognos is an incredibly powerful reporting tool offered by IBM and it has a wonderful ability to be customized across different industries and companies. It can transform work efficiency but automating virtually any data that exists in a company's primary accounting and finance system.
Cons
Cognos is not very user-friendly and often times it can take a while for an individual working with Congos to get familiar with the functionality and the power this tool possesses. Furthermore, report writing and query studio functionality require some database knowledge so the true power of the tool is sometimes limited by these factors.
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Cognos - Fantastic In Some Areas; Lags In Others
Reviewed on 06/12/2022
It’s a means to an end. Not perfect, but no tool is. Pretty much everyone I know in the industry...
It’s a means to an end. Not perfect, but no tool is. Pretty much everyone I know in the industry operates in a multi-tool BI environment. Cognos, like most, hasn’t been able to put together the full package.
Pros
Pixel perfect printing. Most competitors have tagged printing as a way of the past, but there’s still a half generation that relies heavily upon it. This can’t be overlooked.
Cons
The flexibility/functionality of the viz tools can’t compete with competitors. I think it also has a more difficult learning curve. It isn’t an intuitive tool.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Full-featured, slightly behind the curve.
Reviewed on 26/11/2021
It brings a lot of functionality all under one roof. Our team found the "visualization" a little...
It brings a lot of functionality all under one roof. Our team found the "visualization" a little easier in Cognos vs Power BI, but the paginated reporting better in SSRS/PBIRS. We ended up transitioning entirely from Cognos to the MS stack and the broad consensus by the team is it was an overall welcomed upgrade. We're starting to consider Tableau or Looker, but returning to Cognos isn't on our horizon.
Pros
The ability to visualize data in many way all using the same utility is beneficial so we don't have to worry about multiple deployment/support patterns. Having an in-memory OLAP option made performance less of an issue compared to hitting an on-prem database directly for everything. The ability to add custom code allows for some really creative solutions to unique business problems in reporting.
Cons
We felt the interface and functionality was a little dated - our more technical employees were fine but the more analyst-type developers preferred something "prettier"/"friendlier" like Tableau/Power BI. It also got expensive for us which was one of the two the primary reasons we transitioned. This is obviously dependent on the number of users, so consider your own environment of course.
- Industry: Primary/Secondary Education
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
IBM Cognos Review
Reviewed on 23/02/2017
My company has been using IBM Cognos for the past 4 years. When we purchased IBM Cognos it was the...
My company has been using IBM Cognos for the past 4 years. When we purchased IBM Cognos it was the best fit for our situation. It has been a valued piece of software in our business. It has given us the ability to tie data from multiple data sources. It has given the ability for our departments to run reports that we haven't been able to in the past.
Pros
The software is very intuitive. If you have knowledge of SQL, it is a very easy software to pick up. The Help portion of the Cognos interface is very helpful also.
Cons
Customer Support for this product isn't the best. We have been on Cognos 10.1.1 for a while and when it came up for licensing renewal, we were charged for a newer version of Data Manger. When we inquired about this through our support contract we were going to be charged for the new software.
IBM Cognos Analytics FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for IBM Cognos Analytics.Q. What type of pricing plans does IBM Cognos Analytics offer?
IBM Cognos Analytics offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: USD 10.00
- Free Trial: Available
Contact IBM for a quote for any of the Cognos products. Learn more at: https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics/pricing
Q. Who are the typical users of IBM Cognos Analytics?
IBM Cognos Analytics has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does IBM Cognos Analytics support?
IBM Cognos Analytics supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does IBM Cognos Analytics support mobile devices?
IBM Cognos Analytics supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does IBM Cognos Analytics integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations IBM Cognos Analytics has
Q. What level of support does IBM Cognos Analytics offer?
IBM Cognos Analytics offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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