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: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Invaluable Business Intelligence
Reviewed on 06/09/2019
Data is extremely vital to any organization and the ability to generate useful reports and...
Data is extremely vital to any organization and the ability to generate useful reports and dashboards on demand across multiple sources is invaluable.
Pros
Scheduling reports, configuring prompt pages on reports for users to run a standardized report with custom filters are both fantastic features that I used hundreds of times across all reporting.
Cons
Report building was intuitive for a power user but average users found it overwhelming. This just meant a bit more training from my department.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Enterprise Reporting and Analytics Tool
Reviewed on 07/10/2020
It has been a solid tool for our company for last so many years. IT meets out current needs in...
It has been a solid tool for our company for last so many years. IT meets out current needs in terms of performance and capabilities. However, as we start exploring more cutting edge technologies like cloud, SAAS and Advanced Analytics, we see the tool is not in the top 3.
Pros
Well established took with huge user base and support. Being IBMs main BI tool, it comes with a lot of Support and Knowledge Base. There are tons of supporting products for Advanced Analytics, Visualization and AI/ML which makes the tool both powerful and versatile. It fits into both departmental BI as well as for Enterprise wide reporting.
Cons
IBM should increase the support the provide for their products. It is difficult to get quick help from IBM.Self service features of the tool and not as easy as other contemporary tools like Tableau and Qlikview. IBM has catching up to do in this area. Also cloud based SAAS is not yet advanced for COGNOS.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
IBM Cognos Report Studio
Reviewed on 28/03/2019
I would recommend for company reporting, works great with a big database
I would recommend for company reporting, works great with a big database
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Complex reports can be achieved with IBM Cognos Report studio, great for setting up scheduled reports.
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Interface is not user friendly, certain features are not logically placed.Charts are not great when downloaded into Excel.
- 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.
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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.
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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: 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.
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: $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 Software, Phone Support
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