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IBM Cognos Analytics has garnered high praise from users for its user-friendly interface, ease of use, and powerful data visualization capabilities. Users appreciate the intuitive nature of the platform, making it accessible to users of all skill levels. The integration of Artificial Intelligence for visualization enhances decision-making and drives better ...Read more
Easy report creation, even for novices, reducing training needs.
User-friendly interface, suitable for users of all skill levels.
Utilizes Artificial Intelligence for visualization and decision-making.
Cloud-based tool with a wide range of features for data analysis.
Steeper learning curve for beginners without formal training.
Limited interactive PDF support for reports.
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Administrator in Automotive
02/13/19
What I like about Cognos
What do you like best? Cognos is an easy to use solution for tradional BI and reporting. Features are stable and provide consistent results. What do you dislike? New features that get added but are not built-out sufficiently to actually utilize in a production environment with very picky customers What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have 4000 users who have traditional BI, Transformer and PowerPlay reports. Self-service for sales and ...
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Christopher P
02/13/19
A complete solution
What do you like best? The integration with other IBM Analytics Products like Cognos Planning Analytics and SPSS. These integrations deliver a complete solution to bring the full breadth of knowledge directly to the decision makers. What do you dislike? The lack of interconnection with Cloud based products. Would like it if we could integrate on prem Analytics and Planning Analytics with cloud offerings of Cognos Analytics, PAW, Watson Analytics, and other services for a hybrid cloud ...
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Raveendra Babu G
02/13/19
Work on Cloud
What do you like best? Less Maintains on servers to easy to communicate and also reduceing the man power What do you dislike? Always with some server side fix to work our application What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? we can knowing where we are in our business
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Internal Consultant in Architecture & Planning
02/13/19
Scalabiity and performance on CLoud
What do you like best? I was thinking of moving my environment away from On-prem to cloud and found that IBM softlayer served its need to moving towards the cloud and also did a great help in migrating the environemnt.' it was a worry free process and its all taken care by IBM and we are at peace What do you dislike? evluation process and time to assessment of environment What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? scalability
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User in Insurance
02/13/19
Efficient access for end users
What do you like best? Cognos allows our users to quickly and efficiently access curated and critical data in a self service method. What do you dislike? Challenges around training of users and building curriculum What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Improved time for financial closings have been realized by various self service methods
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Jake S
02/13/19
Cognos Dashboards are a great product
What do you like best? I like the ease and speed of being able to put a visualization together and can get in the hands of the consumer quickly. What do you dislike? I dislike that commands can't be used across different packages. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are putting HR data into the hands of decision makers faster and more accurately than ever before.
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Executive Sponsor in Financial Services
02/13/19
IBM Cognos offers superior performance
What do you like best? Cognos offers flexibility and performance above and beyond that of other competing solutions What do you dislike? Some competing solutions position themselves at a much lower price point, which may maked additional investments in cognos difficult to justify to business executives. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Rich visualizations over virtualized data lakes. The solution performs very well and we have been ...
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Teddi D
02/13/19
New users, features coming quickly
What do you like best? That new features that are needed are being quickly updated and usable in the tool - this makes it very viable and easy for end users to use. What do you dislike? Transformation off of some older management consoles come over partially or slowly; like cognos administration is only 1/3 of feature of the older console version and it is way more flexible and can do bulk edits. Do not put out a tool until it is fully functional What problems are you solving with ...
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Administrator in Information Technology and Services
02/13/19
Upgrading from Cognos 10 to Cognos Analytics 11
What do you like best? The new interface, dashboards. The shortcurt menus to to create reports. DQM. What do you dislike? The numerous features that were working in 10 did not work in version 11. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Daily and Monthly premium, losses, financial reporting
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Administrator in Education Management
02/13/19
Great product but you need to listen to customers more
What do you like best? Cognos is a market leader and very solid product What do you dislike? Certain features are missing despite them being very basic for analytics such as % on interactive reports. Recommendations to others considering the product: Study the move carefully What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are simplifying and availing data and analytics to our C-level
