IBM Cognos Analytics

Cognos 11 has shown us our future

What do you like best? As a long time cognos customer we were excited to learn about and build upon new data visualization options with cognos 11. Paired with our new Netizza data warehouse appliance we are able to allow our decision makers to work with data directly and find insights needed for improved decision making. What do you dislike? It is difficult to meet our customers scorecard requests. Currently have multiple reports/jobs running to render one scorecard. Technical team ...

Cognos Analytics review

What do you like best? User friendly self service features, and a powerful report builder. What do you dislike? Dashboarding tools offer limited customization. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Creation of standardized reports and dashboards to enable users to access a common set of KPI"s.

IBM Analytics has been doing great

What do you like best? I like the integration with Watson Analytics What do you dislike? Mapping capabilities. I would like integration with ESRI What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Crime Analysis and prediction

Wide varierty of options to build analytical capabilities

What do you like best? Ease of use, variety of options, visualizations to choose from What do you dislike? Uncertainty of the data sources to use for dashboards, reports - packages, data sets etc What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Advanced reporting capabilities - pretty robust functionality Effective and simple dashboards - ease of use and building

All In One

What do you like best? Cognos Analytics has a great way of facilitating BI for the power users, as well as creating federated data sources for citizen data scientists. With no tools, or training, users can get started right away. The dashboarding feature is incredibly powerful and allows us to create and deploy trusted dashboards throughout the organisation quickly. What do you dislike? Creating complex data structures requires a significant understanding of data modelling concepts ...

Exploring IBM Products

What do you like best? How powerful Cognos Analytics is and the many ways Cognos could be used. What do you dislike? My lack of product knowledge on the various products IBM offers. Recommendations to others considering the product: Take advantage of the training classes offered. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reporting and visualizations used to make decisions.

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.

Cognos - Bringing Analytics to LIfe

What do you like best? The new Cognos Analytics has many new features that make it a true competitor in the analytics market. These new features have given our business the leverage to push new releases and bring a fresh face to our analytic reporting. What do you dislike? Cognos tuning! I dislike that I have to pay for a tool, and then purchase service hours to tune it. In today's age of AI and ML, we should be able to run an agent that monitors the environment and then makes tuning ...

Even better than the on premise version of the software

What do you like best? Easy to buy, easy to deploy, with all the power of Cognos. The new interface with a cloud deployment option is a game changer for my clients. What do you dislike? It took too long to get this version of the product released. IBM please put more money into the IBM analytics development team. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Pixel perfect reporting, report distribution, end user report creation and query, all in ...

Cognos Analytics Review

What do you like best? dashboarding, storytelling, new visualizations, augmented intelligence What do you dislike? new user interface might be challenging to adapt to for our users What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? product and geograhic mix. still in progress.