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IBM Cognos Analytics
What Is IBM Cognos Analytics?
Unlock the full potential of your data with AI-powered automation and insights in Cognos Analytics. The natural language AI assistant is always available–describe the data you need and let Cognos Analytics build stunning data visualizations for you. Describe a question or a hypothesis you want to test and let AI give you the insights you need.
Transform your business team into power users so your data analysts can focus on finding deeper insights. Move to the new generation of BI with AI capabilities that not only bring an accurate, trusted and complete picture of your business, but forecast what’s coming in the future, predict outcomes and explain why they may happen.
Who Uses IBM Cognos Analytics?
All enterprise organizations, from small to medium to large.
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Reviews of IBM Cognos Analytics
Tool that improves decision making
Pros:
It has a nice user interface, with multiple customization options, attractive panels and excellent performance. It has the useful drag and drop tool that makes it easy to manipulate data to create nice visualizations. Provides high quality and visually pleasing real-time reports. The mobile application works very well, giving the platform greater mobility.
Cons:
I would like them to improve the documentation to start using the platform more easily and get the most out of all its functions. Its cost is considerably high.
Robust BI tool
Comments: It provides a set of highly flexible and customizable features that help improve our analytics and positively impact our decision-making.
Pros:
It allows you to connect the data thrown by different sources and create personalized reports that you can share in real time. It allows planning operations based on pre-established rules to model the entire business process and obtain the best results on the implemented strategies.
Cons:
Its license has a high cost compared to similar platforms. It has a steep learning curve and its user interface has a lot of room for improvement.
Used to be good, showing age
Comments: General business intelligence tool that is showing its age and needs to be geared more for agile. Not a great solution for small user numbers or more towards hardcore analyst/data scientist.
Pros:
The latest versions have improved the report writer experience by consolidating a few of the modules. Generally robust at connecting to single data sources.
Cons:
Steep learning curve for writing reports and setting up Framework Manager packaging is way too time consuming. The end user interface got more complicated and less easy to use in their attempt for more flashiness. The latest versions have been extremely buggy. Data blending and quick turnarounds are not its strong point.
Powerful, Reliable, Expensive
Comments:
I've been working with IBM Cognos since version 8.4
I like this product and see how IBM is improving it.
Pros:
It's been a long on the market. It's offered by IBM It has a great integration with many databases
Cons:
New version (CA 11) has some inconvenient UI changes (new side panel which does not allow to easily navigate and see all properties) Many things need to be done manually instead of integrating as best practices (security, deployments, testing, version control, etc.) New studios are not that intuitive / transparent
A great solution for your financial planning
Comments: Take your time and implement it right and the rewards will be very good.
Pros:
It has integration with with other IBM products like business intelligence. The excel functionality is great for finances. The product to meet our needs perfectly for all our needs.
Cons:
Creating reports is overwhelming at the beginning but if you dedicate time and resources there will be the face of your deployment.
