What is IBM Cognos Analytics?
Cognos Analytics is an AI-fueled business intelligence
(BI)
platform that helps users create
reports, dashboards, visualize, analyze, integrating reporting,
modeling, dashboards, data exploration and share actionable
insights.
Cognos Analytics supports the entire analytics cycle, from discovery to operationalization. Cognos Analytics gives users — whether data scientist, business analyst or non-specialist — more power to perform relevant analysis in a way that ties back to organizational objectives. It aims to shorten each user’s journey from simple to sophisticated analytics, allowing them to harness data to explore the unknown, identify new relationships, get a deeper understanding of outcomes and challenge the status quo. Users can visualize, analyze and share actionable insights about data with anyone in the organization.
Cognos Analytics supports the entire analytics cycle, from discovery to operationalization. Cognos Analytics gives users — whether data scientist, business analyst or non-specialist — more power to perform relevant analysis in a way that ties back to organizational objectives. It aims to shorten each user’s journey from simple to sophisticated analytics, allowing them to harness data to explore the unknown, identify new relationships, get a deeper understanding of outcomes and challenge the status quo. Users can visualize, analyze and share actionable insights about data with anyone in the organization.
Categories & Use Cases
Videos
Screenshots

a natural language query, used in IBM Cognos Analytics to get AI-powered insights from data.
Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-Premise, SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew, Urdu, Farsi |
FAQs
What is IBM Cognos Analytics?
IBM Cognos is a full-featured business intelligence suite by IBM, designed for larger deployments. It comprises Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search, and dashboards.
How much does IBM Cognos Analytics cost?
IBM Cognos Analytics starts at $10.
What are IBM Cognos Analytics's top competitors?
SAS Cost and Profitability Management, duplicate, Tableau Server, and Tableau Public are common alternatives for IBM Cognos Analytics.
What is IBM Cognos Analytics's best feature?
Reviewers rate Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile highest, with a score of 8.9.













