IBM Cognos Analytics

catching up

What do you like best? new looks, intergration, data preparation and scalabillity of the product What do you dislike? looking at competitors, its good to simplify the offering / product and the licence model to a scalable offering What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? finance, sales, hr, .. etc

Powerful and Robust

What do you like best? I like that IBM Cognos Analytics covers so many different reporting and data analysis business cases. What do you dislike? The tool can, at times, be difficult to navigate. Some configuration settings are controlled in places you would not expect. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I am delivering reports, dashboards, and data dumps for our Financial analysts. Again this speaks to the overall robustness of the ...

Cognos Analkytics

What do you like best? AI feature including chatbot , Instant Data model and replications What do you dislike? discovery prediction grap in AI chatbot. Need to be more decriptive and with slicer. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? instant viz dasboard

Boardroom ready reports for your enterprise

What do you like best? Cognos Analytics allows leadership to request, review and utilize enterpise data to define strategy. Scalability, ability to integrate multiple data sources in today's ever changing digital world, Cognos Analytics is an ally all organization can benefit from. What do you dislike? Implementation cycle were longer than we originally anticipated - not product issue,, just we underestimated size of undertaking What problems are you solving with the product? What ...

Enterprise wide Analytics tool

What do you like best? Gouvernance, security and report distribution mecanism What do you dislike? Complicated for non eperienced end users. Lack features and easiness for self-service What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Get the right information to the right people on time for decision making

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 ...

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 ...

good

What do you like best? variety of items available. there is enough booths to enhance the productivity of ibm products. What do you dislike? not enough knowledge on TM1 and cognos with TM1 cubes. Not much contents/demos/labs on dimensional data What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? cubes, summarizing and descripting data

Cognos admin user

What do you like best? The modeling of the data and the fact that the data needs to be structured before it gets ran in reports FM modeling What do you dislike? the complex mature of mass changes. some times the admin is tough What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? solving issues with mass updates and security

Over 20 Years of IT Development

What do you like best? I enjoy teaching users on the features and benefits of IT in general and Cognos specifically. What do you dislike? I don't enjoy leadership where they are set in their ways. Recommendations to others considering the product: Review it for yourself to see the features and benefits What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I am presenting business with reports and dashboard to gain insight into their business.