IBM Cognos Analytics

cognos on steroids

What do you like best? love the functionality of the product and UI What do you dislike? i wish there were more intuitive training modules for everyone to use What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? real-time analytics

Its come a long way

What do you like best? Started using Cognos reporting solution when it was report studio, lots of improvements around visualizations. Dashboards are a huge improvement for our sales folks, and helps display data in a meaningful way. What do you dislike? The new user interface for report authoring seems clunky and disjointed. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? we are able to do all reporting and meet all visualization needs anywhere ...

Cognos Analytics Feedback

What do you like best? single platform for both reporting and dashboarding What do you dislike? lacking lot of basic features (example: Dashboard conditional formatting) What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? helps us to setup a single envrionment for both reporting and dashboarding

Cognos review

What do you like best? I feel that the cognos suite of analytics is a phenomenal too for clients to develop key insights in order to develop KPI's and to continue to serve organizations. What do you dislike? The initial set up can be cumbersome in some client environments. If the client has a smaller environment and not enough resources to analyze data or set up adequately, finding resources to properly make use of the data can be a challenge as well. What problems are you solving ...

Very good

What do you like best? Ease of use, friendly interface, very good for business What do you dislike? Some difficult functionalities i don't understand and i find low documentation What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Magamenet control of my company's data

Development and out of box

What do you like best? Cognos community and support is most helpful. From a feature point of view, the ability to develop and extend analytics and reporting beyond basic demands i important. What do you dislike? Diversity of ingestion of data from dissimilar platforms / sources Recommendations to others considering the product: compare multiple products however possible What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? cost savings on labor / traning

Cognos for a School District

What do you like best? Cognos has a strong "engine" that is able to manage our student and school data for a school District that is over 100 000 students. We have used Cognos as a reporting tool to support our focus on continuous improvement using data-drivenm decision-making. What do you dislike? I bvelieve Cognos has the engine of a BMW. However, for report writers and users of the product, it needs to be more user-friendly and have more flexibility to support a more 21st century ...

Cognos Analytics on Prem

What do you like best? Easy to learn the basics and navigate the Team Content, What do you dislike? Significant hardware requirements for larger installations. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Solving training and usage of reports

Cognos Analytics for Operations and Analysis

What do you like best? It has been easy to intergrate multiple data sources to meet complex reporting and analytical challenges. What do you dislike? It is catching up, but is still sometimes difficult for our end users to use. Recommendations to others considering the product: Understand your business case and integration points. Make sure your infrastructure scales. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Data exploration and complex ...

All in one analytics

What do you like best? Great tool to access all the information from databases, files,... and get analytcis. What do you dislike? It would be great to have better options for visualizations... modern ones. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are getting dashboards in front of business users.