IBM Cognos Analytics

What do you like best?

The visualization capabilities & the jupyter notebook integration

sometimes a little sticky to handle the UI

We do complete company reporting and data exploration with cognos

What do you like best?

We can mention that I like this system because it provides a graphical user interface for the creation of reports, which is totally easy, offering flexibility in its use when we refer to general terms, as well as learning and understanding the functionality. of the software as such, including when developing an analysis, as long as users understand the data that is provided by the service, without excluding that one of the points why I love Cognos is because of the authoring environment, which is designed to adopt complicated formats with somewhat inconsistent sources of information.

The creation environment that is based on the web, is somewhat slow, which delays the work within the platform in a significant way, offering us low productivity, mentioning that it becomes slower with the constant growth of the size of the data, that is, the more information is attached to the online digital site, the less work performance we can exert, being a large-scale problem that requires a design update on its home page.

IBM Cognos is excellently suited to the systems analyst for large markets, be it telecommunications, extensive retail chains, financial institutions, and among other fundamental organizations that use this software, as it offers a great capacity to access the data with multiple dimensions that are totally necessary for a coherent decision making in any business establishment, without excluding that this system is adapted for both high-grade category companies as well as medium and small ones.

We use Cognos in our platform as one of the main business intelligence tools, for the generation of continuous reports and beneficiaries, including to satisfy all the needs with analytical areas for our clients that are considered as potential, since this software allows them our users to create and distribute these brief documents in a safe and effective way, with valuable information for us, since in the same way it allows us to analyze these contextual news to find knowledge for the convenience of the company for better decision-making.

What do you like best?

It has integration with with other IBM products like business intelligence. Easy to access and gives you required insights. I love working with this tool from IBM. It allows some SQL language, and some configuration features that are very good too. The user interface is pretty good. Easily integrating with most of the ERPs, very good for customizing reports, very detailed reporting. I was able to develop reports in report studio that gave the user the ability to pick what type of report they wanted (YTD, YTD vs LYTD, MTD, etc.). It has modules that help both end users and report writers. Cognos Analytics provides a high degree of governance and automation which facilitates the delivery of information in a mid size organisation. The current version also offers flexibility for new data exploration and analytics. The product does everything we need it to do, from governed reporting to self-service dashboards using governed sets of data.

Creating reports is overwhelming at the beginning, and deployments is a thing that needs to be worked on. Interactive pdf is not available for reports.Tough to learn & not many resources available, you will get the value of the money invested in it only if you are able to get the most out of it.

Best tool for analytical domain, be it any domain works as per requirements.

Creating report is one of the best complete solution for delivering insights from data at enterprise level, worked on multiple domains. Bulk migrations between environments can be completed easily and upgrades are accomplished in-place with no issues.

What do you like best?

Ability to connect to multiple sources through the tool

Gui needs to be more intuitive and user friendly

Cross sell opportunities

What do you like best?

Building my own reports easily it’s powerfull

The interface design needs to be updated

I high recommend IBM Cognos

It saved a hundreds of working hours for making analysis

What do you like best?

I like it is easy to use, especially govern. I like that. My users can create their own views or choose from a built-in library. Professional developers can really create amazing perspectives. Business and casual users. May create amazing insights as well.

I think the product could benefit from more RESTful API power. The new SOAP API is fully implemented but must be modified. Implementing and maintaining integrations designed with the latest SDK solution can be tedious.

Whether analytics is an essential evil or a competitive advantage, try to articulate the problem that must be resolved clearly. The idea of lonely analyst mining for analytical gold in tablets and then providing a stunning, c-suite visualization of that nugget is not synonymous with our constant need for insight. Every day, our analytical solution needs a process-based, verifiable version of the actionable truth.

As an IS director who manages a few renowned business analytical products, I never use any of the resources sponsored by my team to identify and view information every day. This was improved by Cognos Analytics because it allowed me to link to and model my existing data, upload additional data to that template and then create dashboards and reports that I use every day very easily. Cognos BI has maintained the components that creative, highly-trained experts in data visualization need to and has expanded Cognos Analytics to enable almost any user to find quick answers, without IS assistance.

What do you like best?

I like that my organization uses cognos analytics as a one stop shop for many data sources. It's nice to be able to create visual data as well as extract data with filters

So far the only thing I don't like is that I don't have admin rights to have a little more functionality as a developer

Creating visual Analytics for a wide variety of internal customers

What do you like best?

Cognos is a complete solution for delivering insights from data. Whereas many competitors do one or two things very well (create elegant data charts, natural language, etc.), Cognos provides very good tools for all three key areas of modern analytics:

Mode 1 (enterprise reporting)

Mode 2 (data discovery / self-service analytics)

Augmented (AI-driven data exploration)

Also, Data Modules and Datasets are powerful tools for solving all sorts of problems related to data cleanliness and performance.

Designing an (on-premise or private cloud) architecture to service a large number of users is complicated.

Some of the latest Cognos features (such as Explorations) don't function elegantly with OLAP data sources (such as TM1, SSAS Cubes, etc.)

No easy path to migrate content built in Dashboards to Reporting tool if advanced functionality is needed

Be skeptical of Gartner "magic quadrants" and its placement of Cognos Analytics... In our view there are a ton of politics involved. Have worked with a ton of data and analytics tools and often can't make heads or tails of where products show up on the quadrant (actually reading the write-ups can be a bit more insightful).

Critical data gets delivered to the users who need in all sorts of ways:

- Flexible prebuilt prompted "production" reports (traditional enterprise reporting). Can be delivered on a schedule or when something happens in the data, or run interactively. These sorts of reports still work really well for many executives who don't want to learn any new tool.

- Stories feature is great for providing a narrative around the data and visuals being shown

- Users create their own interactive dashboards easily and on the fly

- The backlog to IT has been reduced by putting some intuitive data prep tools into the hands of business power users

- Explorations uncover relationships in data that may not have otherwise been noticed and therefore reported on.

What do you like best?

We can easily create and share visualizations in different formats.

We can ask questions about the data and can receive brilliant responses.

Cognos Analytics is built-in with natural language-powered AI assistant. So, it can find answers using AI and Machine Learning.

Data Preparation is easier because of built-in intelligence.

We can schedule reports, burst to thousands of users, or enable users to subscribe to reports.

Personally, I feel Active reports is one of the best features in IBM Cognos Analytics. I did not come across about Active reports kind of feature in any other BI tool.

Compared with other BI tools it is costlier other than that It is an awesome tool

I would recommend IBM Cognos 100% for the customers.

One can create powerful dashboards and animated stories

It has awesome features like built-in with natural language-powered AI assistant. So, it can find answers using AI and Machine Learning.

Data Preparation is easier because of built-in intelligence.

We can schedule reports, burst to thousands of users, or enable users to subscribe to reports.

Can create pixel perfect and interactive reports.

We can schedule reports, burst to thousands of users, or enable users to subscribe to reports.

We can easily create and share visualizations in different formats.

IBM provides great documentation. We can find the user guide, bug-fixes etc. in IBM support portal.

What do you like best?

Much easier, sophisticated way to analyze and display data. Allows for a much more robust way of visualizing data in a meaningful way.

New learner so any dislike is probably a result of my own ignorance

Pricing, contract, manufacturer name, item attribute inaccuracies