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Make better decisions faster with IBM Cognos Analytics.
Unlock the full potential of data with the next generation of business intelligence reporting, AI-powered insights and interactive visualizations.
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Overview
Turn your data into decisive actions and drive business success with IBM Cognos Analytics.
In the current data driven world, IBM Cognos Analytics empowers businesses with cutting edge business intelligence (BI). Offering a comprehensive suite of features, it provides near real-time, accurate, and trusted insights helping you understand your data, predict outcomes, and uncover the "why" behind trends.
Unlock the future of business intelligence (BI) with IBM Cognos Analytics Certified Containers. Embrace cloud-native modernization for customer-managed Cognos, with robust support for Kubernetes environments, including hyperscalers and microservices to streamline scalability, deployment, and resource utilization. The enterprise-grade containerized deployment integrates seamlessly with existing DevOps and Kubernetes environments, helping to ensure a smooth transition and enhanced performance.
With IBM Cognos Analytics Certified Containers, you can:
- Optimize infrastructure costs: Scale Cognos dynamically based on demand, paying only for what is needed.
- Versatile deployment options: Deploy on IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Red Hat OpenShift, offering unparalleled flexibility.
- Effortless transition: Move from traditional Cognos to containers without disrupting the end-user experience.
- Enhanced security: Fortify organization security posture with Kubernetes deployment, safeguarding data as it grows.
- Accelerated deployment and updates: Leverage existing CI and CD processes with fully Kubernetes-supported containers, minimizing downtime and accelerating deployment speed.
- Robust recovery and redundancy: Simplify disaster recovery with self-healing, auto-scaling, and rapid redeploys, reducing downtime and data loss.
- Streamlined management: Utilize current investments in tools, metrics, and practices without altering DevOps framework.
- Efficient scaling: Seamlessly scale BI setup or down based on demand, optimizing resource utilization.
- Cost reduction: Maximize hardware efficiency by running multiple Cognos Containers on a single server, eliminating virtual machine overhead.
Transform an existing BI environment with ease by transitioning from traditional to containerized Cognos, there is no user disruption or retraining required. Experience enhanced performance, quicker upgrades, and greater scalability while reducing costs.
Create new environments that harness the full potential of Cognos Analytics in a modern, portable, and scalable deployment model engineered for flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
Containers offer an approach to managing data-driven workloads, leveraging improved resource utilization, scalability, and operational efficiency. These advantages can translate into substantial savings across infrastructure, personnel, and energy costs, helping to ensure investments in DevOps, CI and CD security management, and data center and cloud computing remain aligned with the value generated by business software.
Highlights
- High-quality, high-scale business reporting: Create and share clear, customized reports tailored to your needs. Enjoy fast and efficient handling of large data from many sources as your business grows. Collaborate seamlessly with your team and make smarter decisions faster.
- Enterprise-grade governance, security and scalability: Keep your data secure and organized with centralized management and advanced security, improving the quality of your data and reporting. Easily scale your business intelligence as your company grows, with simple pricing and flexible deployment options, from single-user setups to large-scale deployments.
- Interactive data visualizations with AI-enhanced insights: Explore your data with dynamic dashboards, interactive visualizations and AI-powered forecasting tools. Uncover hidden trends and future possibilities, no advanced skills needed. Gain valuable insights and focus on what matters most to your business.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
Analytics User | Users can can create new Reports, Dashboards, Explorations, Stories, New Jobs, Data Server/Source Connections, or Data Modules (REQUIRED) | $924.00 |
Analytics Viewer | Users can can subscribe to reports and view dashboards and stories | $261.60 |
Analytics Explorer | In addition to Analytics User capabilities, users can can also access Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel, Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Cube Designer and Dynamic Query Analyzer, Jupyter Notebook, and Transformer | $1,716.00 |
Analytics Advanced | In addition to Analytics Explorer capabilities, users have limited Administration capabilities | $1,848.00 |
Analytics Administrator | In addition to Analytics Explorer capabilities, users can also access IBM Software Development Kit; and components in the Manage menu, including IBM Cognos Administration (REQUIRED) | $9,636.00 |
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Customer reviews
Anil P.
Excellent for Creating Dashboards and Reports
Reviewed on Jan 11, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The best about IBM cognos analytics is to create dashboards and reports for analysis data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Till now there is nothing dislike about IBM cognos analytics
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It becomes very beneficial for me in terms of my general business also for report generation and advance analysis
Antas K.
Enterprise-Grade Reporting with Powerful AI Insights
Reviewed on Jan 08, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like best about IBM cognos analytics are it provides enterprise grade reporting and it has such a poweful AI- driven insights
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost is quite high, making it difficult for some people to afford.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
this platform assists a lot in making an informed decision making of an organization
Konjengbam M.
Powerful Data Analysis with Intuitive Drag-and-Drop Visualizations
Reviewed on Dec 27, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I love this platform for its wide range of abilities to analyze data to a more resourceful out. The best I love about this platform is the capacity to build visualization by drag dropping the data set. It enables faster understanding of raw data to information in no time. Other than its capabilities I love the way in which it can be customized to make the platform more comfortable for users. Its AI also assist a lot in providing deeper insights with ease. Though there are many commendable features about this platform, Its worth mentioning about the security features it provides. I can also say that the platform is user friendly and allows user to easily monitor.
What do you dislike about the product?
I love most part of this platform but I wish that this the price was a little bit low. The user also needs to spend a good amount of time utilizing this platform to excel in using this platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This platform assist a lot in making an informed decision making of an organization with the use of results from this platform. It allows teams to be organized and efficient in handling the data.
Sumit Kumar S.
Empowering Data-driven decisions with IBM Cognos Analytics: A practical and Insightful Experience.
Reviewed on Nov 11, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I appreciate about this product is how effortlessly it bridges the gap between data and understanding. In a classroom setting, it allowed me to demonstrate dashboards and reports in a way that was both visually engaging and easy for students to grasp.
What do you dislike about the product?
While it is a powerful, user-friendly tool, one area that could be improved is the initial onboarding experience. New users often face a steep learning curve, especially when navigating advanced features like data modelling or custom visualizations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using IBM Cognos Analytics in the Classroom has been a game-changer for demonstrating real-world data insights to students, management, CxO level. Its interactive dashboards and visually rich reports make complex concepts more accessible and engaging. The platform's intuitive design allowed me to focus on storytelling with data rather than just the technicalities, helping clients connect analytics to practical decision-making.
Ethan O.
Dependable Analytics Tool That Simplifies Reporting Across Teams
Reviewed on Oct 30, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Cognos analytics makes it easy to pull consistent reports from multiple data sources, Once set up it's stable and fast, and the dashboard tools helps turn complex data into clear visuals for management, I use it a couple of times every week
What do you dislike about the product?
Some configuration requires technical skill, but once built, report run smoothly without constant maintenance
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps our team centralize reporting and automate monthly summaries, Saving time and reducing manual data error