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IBM Cognos Analytics - Business Intelligence Software

IBM Cognos Analytics Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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IBM Cognos Analytics Reviews & Ratings

4.1

Very Good

Based on 810 ratings & 172 reviews

Rating Distribution

Excellent

(100)

Very Good

(57)

Good

(11)

Poor

(2)

Terible

(2)

Expert's Review

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

IBM Cognos Analytics pros and cons

  • 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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David B

02/12/19

5 out of 5

Cognos has been instrumental in its ability to meet reporting needs of our government customer.

What do you like best? Cognos has several installations within many of our government customers who use its scalabale delivery of business reporting capabilities., What do you dislike? There is nothing about Cognos that our customers who are using it disline. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Cognos offers a scalable offering that is both agile and effective.

ES

Executive Sponsor in Education Management

02/12/19

4.5 out of 5

Great Update

What do you like best? The AI embebbed is a great new feature. What do you dislike? The natural language understanding feature is only available in english What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Our clients only need one tool to meet alll their analytical needs now with the Data Discovery improve features is more easy than ever to have self service analytics

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Alfonso M

02/12/19

4.5 out of 5

Cognos for Customers

What do you like best? We are working wit a customer in Mexico for deployment of Cognos soluction to establish a BI solution for their Sales Department and it looks and feels very well, nothing to do with the older version of Cognos What do you dislike? The lack of sales training for us Business Partners What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? The customer needs to have a better understanding of tehir businness and their customers needs

AI

Administrator in Insurance

02/12/19

4.5 out of 5

Experience is great and the application is improving rapidly.

What do you like best? In 11.1 the ease of use with report design. What do you dislike? It seems like more enhancements get rolled out before all bugs are fixed some times. Also, running Cognos on AIX was troublesome in early stages. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Making our data tell stories for our end users.

AI

Administrator in Logistics and Supply Chain

02/12/19

4.5 out of 5

Improve visibility of our bussiness

What do you like best? Easy way to build reports and connect to differente data sources. What do you dislike? A liitle complicate to implement by our own. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Daily statistics and reports about our key operations.

AI

Agency in Insurance

02/12/19

4 out of 5

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 ...

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giuseppe m

02/12/19

4 out of 5

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

LW

Leighton W

02/12/19

4 out of 5

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.

ES

Executive Sponsor in Health, Wellness and Fitness

02/12/19

4 out of 5

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

CI

Consultant in Information Technology and Services

02/12/19

2 out of 5

cognos review

What do you like best? traditional cognos dashboards serve the need of business users What do you dislike? traditional data integration, modelling and then dashboard building process What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? operational reporting