IBM Cognos Analytics

Score7.1 out of 10

584 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

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a natural language query, used in IBM Cognos Analytics to get AI-powered insights from data.

AI-generated insights and forecasts that can be added with just a click of a button.

a dashboard that can be generated automatically using IBM Cognos Analytics by uploading or selecting data.

an AI-generated dashboard from a spreadsheet that was just uploaded. This offers a great starting point for the creative process.

where to import data to IBM Cognos Analytics from CSV files and spreadsheets. Users can connect to cloud or on-premises data sources, including SQL databases, Google BigQuery, Amazon, and Redshift.

a sample operational dashboard of a coffee shop created using IBM Cognos Analytics.

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Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Category average: 7.9
Report Versioning
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
Category average: 8.4
Javascript API
A Javascript API is a type of API
Category average: 8.3

Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.
Category average: 7.6
Predictive Analytics
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
Category average: 7.8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
Category average: 8.3

Ranjit R Puthenpuramodyil View profile

Principal at Toshiba (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Cognos Analytics as part of various leadership reports and insights. The business problem we address is how effective our inventory is flowing and what inventory is in more demand and which location.

Pros

Data Cleansing
Visual Graphs
Predictive Analytics

Cons

Performance
GenAI based SQL instructions

Return on Investment

Time Savings
KPI reporting

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop and Powerbird

Other Software Used

IBM Sterling Order Management, IBM Maximo Application Suite, IBM Watson Content Analytics

Bernd Oerthle View profile

Head of analytic infrastructure in Engineering at ALH Gruppe (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Running entire reporting for 3k users

Pros

Reporting
Crosstabs
Data modules

Cons

Dashboards
interoperability with planning

Return on Investment

Almost every report runs on Cognos

Alternatives Considered

IBM Planning Analytics

Dion Paul View profile

Business Intelligence Administrator in Information Technology at AscendSC (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Inventory, financial, and historical reporting and dashboarding.

Pros

Scheduling
Modeling
Interoperability

Cons

2FA with other authenticators
Interconnection with other applications like PA on Cloud Hosted

Return on Investment

Significant time savings in report distribution
Ease of administration
Savings by keeping things secured

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

IBM Planning Analytics

Eduardo Valadez

Pre Sales in Engineering at Compusoluciones (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This software has great benefits, but especially for the BI and data mining aspects, but all focused on the decision-making aspect within our company.

Este software tiene grandes bondades pero mas para la parte del BI, la explotacion de Datos pero todo enfocado a la parte de la toma de decisions dentro de nuestra Empresa.

Pros

decision making
Data mining
Executive reports
Toma de decisiones
Explotacion de datos
Reportes ejecutivos

Cons

Creation of reports
Connection to different sources
Creation de reportes
Connexion a diferentes fuentes

Return on Investment

Decision making (ROI)
Toma de decisions (ROI)

Alternatives Considered

Business Excellence Net

Jochen Pausch

Administrator in Engineering at ALH (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am the administrator. We use IBM Cognos Analytics for Marketing, Operation, Managment etc. Reports.

Pros

Reports
Connectivitz to Oracle and other databases

Cons

Dashboards can be better
move the rest of old Administration site to the new Administration

Return on Investment

time saving

IBM Cognos Analytics

What is IBM Cognos Analytics?

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Key Features

Top Performing Features

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Report Versioning

Javascript API

Areas for Improvement

Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

Predictive Analytics

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

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