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IBM Cognos Analytics Overview

What is IBM Cognos Analytics?

IBM Cognos Analytics acts as your trusted co-pilot for business with the aim of making you smarter, faster, and more confident in your data-driven decisions. IBM Cognos Analytics gives every user — whether data scientist, business analyst or non-IT specialist — more power to perform relevant analysis in a way that ties back to organizational objectives. It shortens each user’s journey from simple to sophisticated analytics, allowing them to harness data to explore the unknown, identify new relationships, get a deeper understanding of outcomes and challenge the status quo. Visualize, analyze and share actionable insights about your data with anyone in your organization with IBM Cognos Analytics.

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IBM® Cognos® Analytics offers smarter, self-service capabilities so you can quickly gain insight and act on it. The solution empowers business users to create and personalize dashboards and reports on their own - while providing IT with a scalable solution that is available on premises or on the cloud.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Our vision with IBM Cognos Analytics is to become your trusted AI co-pilot with an integrated, easy to manage, and extensible data and analytics platform powered by IBM Watson. Like a reliable co-pilot we’re enabling customers to do more with the data they already have through AI infused self-service capabilities. We have made significant investments in building advanced capabilities into every aspect of Cognos Analytics.

Fast analytics anywhere. Provides a unified experience that works the same on web or mobile devices, enabling you to quickly find, analyze, create and share insights. AI-infused data analysis for everyone. Helps ensure more users have straightforward and productive access to data. Reporting and visualization benefit from a guided and intuitive experience that lets you create visuals, infographics, dashboards and reports in minutes. Analytics you can trust. Provides access to curated data that can eliminate risk and uncertainty.


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IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers.


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4.0 out of 5
"It’s best if we’re concerned about the deployment or installation of this app on our local systems."
I would say, as we had installed it on site, and we had really have control over customization. So far, we had used dashboards and charts in order ...
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4.5 out of 5
"One tool for many stop solutions"
Now its been while i am using this tool for reporting and analysis,data visualization, and its capability of advance analysis using AI Technology a...
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"Data Reporting for All"
Report development is quick and easy to pick up. There are many options for configuration and customization to bring your reporting to the next level.
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Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Ease of Use, Ease of implementation. A wider variety of charts especially Geographic charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Not many companies ask for IBM Cognos. Most companies ask for Power BI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Comparing future and past techonolgy usage. Finding the trend in the usage of techogoly we can have prediction for further decision making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Ability to connect with multiple data sources that are not only structured but also unstructured is one of the strengths of Cognos Analytics. Consequently, it is highly flexible and enables deeper analysis of various data which comes from different sources. The drag and drop interface for creating visualizations is also very intuitive and easy to use, even for those who are not technically savvy.

Another thing that I found really useful while using the software was having the dashboard feature. It allows you to monitor key performance indicators in real time while still showing the entire data at a glance. This comes handy when you need to make snap decisions or detect tendencies that require attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

The initial setup and customization of the software is time-consuming, but this drawback was minor. It is worth all the effort in the end and finally, IBM’s support team were always there to help for any trouble. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

IBM Cognos Analytics software helped my business to take decisions based on data and attain valuable insights. Its comprihensive features, user-friendly interface, and advanced analytics capability make it one of the best choices for analytics software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Now its been while i am using this tool for reporting and analysis,data visualization, and its capability of advance analysis using AI Technology and its ability to integrate with various data sources. I find it easy to use and can easily share reports and dashboards with my peers.

Ya its no doubt customer support is good and any time if face any issues, we can connect with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

To be very frank i dont encounters many issues while working with the tool, but one thing i want to highlight is performance issues while handling large dataset.

Like i encounter slowness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

The tool is integrated with many different data sources and using it for generating analysis dashboard for my teams like sales teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Easy accesible

Friendly UI

Features are very well designed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Monthly cost

Slightly difficult for newbie Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating dashboards using IBM Cognos makes everyone to understand the problem statement easily and useful to create more insights from the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

With the help of IBM Congnos Analytics i am able to create good and informative dashboard and with ease , it has helped the customers with decision making and and monitoring.

And the access to mobile for the reports is very handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

As of now there is nothing that i found which i disliked about it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping customers with detailed analysis of the data which is helping them in monitoring and decision making for their business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Roopkumar M.
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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

I liked the fact that, the dashboards and reports were dynamic and well aided software for data visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

According to me it seems a bit complicated to learn and the features are good but it's as bit complicated and time consuming to learn, without learning operation the software is not possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Particularly the inventory management part , when in my case the inventories mismanagement such as overstocking of certain items and stock out of other is prevented Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raj S.
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Billing Operations Analyst
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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Good query studio, Reporting studio feature

powerful platform for use cased scenarios.

Good security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Not cost friendly compared to likes of Power Bi

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What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

As operations analyst we tested Cognos Analytic for backlog inventory case scenario.

We had hard time since it was scary for first time and having just 30 days trial didn't impress us.

Though it allowed us and FP&A department to prepare for forecasting inventory case model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pankaj S.
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Finance Manager - Global SDI
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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

its a simple yet powerful tool. Help in Working accross multiple entities and let us manage our global data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Tool can be more smooth and more faster though i am happy with current speed too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping in Handling large data for multiple entities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manjunath K.
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Machine Learning Intern
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

It is very useful in creating BI reports in an IBM enterprise system. Creating own custom SQL queries for custom joins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

Sending the report through email is not avaialable or not functional. No way to select multiple reports, individually regenerating manually and resending is the pain point which should be addressed soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating excel report for financial analysis and KPIs. Able to translate the content for multi language teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about IBM Cognos Analytics?

In an effort to better understand our data we started using this tool after trying a couple of other tools. Out of the box the tool is relatively easy to use. The interface is user friendly, and depending on your previous experience, is relatively easy to learn. Implementation is not too difficult, depending on your environment and knowledge, but make sure you have the computing power. The tool is pretty rich in features, and can be used daily as easily as any other tool. Able to analyze a variety of datasets. Many reporting features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Cognos Analytics?

The tool appears to be computing resource-intensive, gobling up CPU cycles. If you don't have a powerfull enough computer, it can be a little frustrating. It does not work with all web browsers, so integration may be a little challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Cognos Analytics solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us better understand financial and operational data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.