IBM Cognos Analytics

Cognos Analytics

What do you like best? Ease of use, BI developers seem to like using it What do you dislike? The costs are prohibitive, we use it primarliy for one lending system at the moment What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? The syndicated loan group uses it for reporting on large commercial loans

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

Enterprise ready BI & Analytics Suite with SelfService

What do you like best? That you can adress all types of users you find in a company What do you dislike? Realtime Visualization isn"t there. There are lots of use cases (e.g. in manufacturing) What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Get the right information to the right time to make the right desicions.

Scalability

What do you like best? The scale and the technology advance research cababilities are really cool What do you dislike? the complex interface with too many interact to get the action don What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Agtech

I enjoy using Cognos Analytics - easy to use

What do you like best? ease of use - the upgrades to AI , exploration, and insights What do you dislike? na - some quirks with reporting and having to start over What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? disparates system reporting

Very satisfied, a lot of posibilities

What do you like best? Plenty congigurable options and ad hoc reports What do you dislike? Limited time series data visualisation possibilites What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Data visulization for real time operation in power szstem

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.

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

Analytics for Everyone

What do you like best? With the latest release of Cognos Analytics, Analysts, now more than ever, can uncover insights and correlations within data that would otherwise not be found. The addition of Watson Analytics capability has made it easier for users to better understand data visualizations and make faster decisions. In addition, the Watson Assist allows users to ask questions of their data and leveraging the software's internal AI, receive recommendations on data packages, objects, ...

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