IBM Cognos Analytics

Great Enhancements

What do you like best? Cognos Analytics in Version 11 completetly changed against the old version 10. There are great enhancements in the user interface and the possibilities to build reports, dashboards, ... What do you dislike? There are no good possibilities to migrate from an older version 10 data model package to a current Cognos Analytics data module. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are using Cognos Analytics to build ...

Good product for in house analytics

What do you like best? The ability to build a custom model in Framework Manager to standardize the data model across teams. What do you dislike? Lack of source control and versioning support. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We replaced a third party reporting application that was owned by a competitor and wrote our own external facing reporting application to support our clients.

great tol for great people

What do you like best? all my researchers are cognos addicts. they are very well in building reports and they like the visualization possibilities What do you dislike? it asks al lot of effeort if you have to change existing reports What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? we provide our clients with benchmarkinformation so they can improve their way of working

Cognos analytics review,

What do you like best? The software is good for Standard Reporting as well as Adhoc Reporting and the ability to generate useful reports and dashboards on demand across multiple sources is invaluable also combining multiple queries in one report to create your desired report What do you dislike? Cognos Analytics can be hard to learn how to use. You have to really understand your data first so that you can figure out how to make the tool do what you need it to do. Interactive pdf is ...

Solid BI Analytic Tool

What do you like best? Allows users to execute smarter data compilation and report data with visualizations options. What do you dislike? The table joining ability can be limiting. Recommendations to others considering the product: Overall good tool for analytical reporting. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Organizational effectiveness, C-suite decision making, historical data reporting.

Ok to use, clean interface

What do you like best? Clean interface Robust analytical function What do you dislike? Complex set up queries function is confusing What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? D&I analysis by all levels The report came out fairly clean

Good

What do you like best? The best thing was about saving time with automated data preparation What do you dislike? Designing an (on-premise or private cloud) architecture to service a large number of users is complicated. Recommendations to others considering the product: Its graph recommendations for visualization is good enough. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? None, speed and accuracy

Cognos so smart

What do you like best? El mundo cambiante de hoy en día necesita de soluciones ágiles que nos ayudan a anticiparnos para mejorar nuestra productividad empresarial. Cognos es uno de los Bussines Intelligence más fáciles de usar por su intuitiva interfaz de usuario, fácil de navegar, y con la que podremos hacer cuadros de mando e infografías y creación de informes profesionales que podremos exportar en múltiples documentos, como hojas de cálculo Excel. La toma de decisiones nunca fue ...

Good platform for data sourcing

What do you like best? Can connect and retrive any data needed for analytics. It has multiple inputs for admins and employees can source any data in a format of their choice easily. What do you dislike? Functions are a bit minimal. More options required for filtering data. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Using the data sourced, I create data models to give a clear picture. Based on which strategies are developed.

Looks cool

What do you like best? Provides fancy graphics that tells the story easily for Executive Management What do you dislike? not end user friendly. Must rely on more technical users to complete reporting What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Executive reporting, Graphic solutions and tells story with pictures that can be interpreted fastest