Overview
IBM Cognos Analytics Overview
Start with trusted, agentic BI on AWS. IBM Cognos Analytics as a Service helps organizations build or modernize trusted business intelligence and data analytics through a fully managed SaaS experience. With governed analytics and BI agents built in, teams can reduce manual effort and accelerate decisions.
Use BI agents to shift analytics from manual reporting and analysis tasks to guided, AI-assisted workflows. Users can discover insights faster, explore data using natural language, create new analysis, and work within governed analytics workflows connected to business context and security controls.
Built and operated by IBM, the service manages the complete analytics platform lifecycle, including provisioning, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, and support. Customers can stay current with the latest Cognos capabilities with less upgrade effort, operational burden, and reduced infrastructure management.
Key features and benefits include:
- Faster decisions with BI agents: Reduce manual effort and accelerate time to insight by helping users understand reports, explore data in natural language, create analysis, and work within governed analytics workflows.
- Advanced enterprise reporting: Deliver trusted operational, financial, regulatory, and executive analytics with governed enterprise data.
- Interactive dashboards and data visualizations: Monitor KPIs, trends, and business performance through intuitive analytics experiences.
- Governed self-service analytics: Create reusable business definitions and semantic models while maintaining consistency, governance, and control across analytics.
- Targeted report distribution: Deliver personalized insights at scale through targeted distribution of reports and analytics content, helping stakeholders stay informed and aligned.
- Enterprise governance and security: Keep analytics connected to permissions, access controls, auditing, trusted content, and business context.
- Fully managed SaaS operations: Shift provisioning, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, and support to IBM to reduce operational overhead.
IBM Cognos Analytics as a Service gives existing Cognos customers a path to modernize without rebuilding their analytics foundation, while helping new clients build governed analytics from the start.
Book a meeting with IBM to discuss your Cognos modernization path and how to get started.
Highlights
- Trusted: Build or modernize enterprise BI with governed reporting, dashboards, data models, permissions, and security controls that help teams work from consistent, trusted data.
- Agentic: BI agents help users reduce manual effort, discover insights faster, explore data in natural language, and create analysis within governed analytics workflows.
- Fully Managed: Reduce BI platform operations with an IBM-managed SaaS experience, including provisioning, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, and support.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
Standard | One (1) instance of IBM Cognos Analytics environment, ideal for upto 1000 users (REQUIRED 1 QTY FOR STANDARD PLAN) | $96,000.00 |
Standard High Availability Add-on | This optional service when paired with IBM Cognos Analytics as a Service Standard Instance, provides a high availability production configuration of the Cloud Service | $30,000.00 |
Premium Base | One (1) instance of IBM Cognos Analytics HA environment, ideal for upto 1000 users (REQUIRED 1 QTY FOR PREMIUM PLAN) | $120,000.00 |
Premium Production | One (1) instance of IBM Cognos Analytics HA environment, ideal for upto 10000 users (REQUIRED MIN 1 QTY FOR PREMIUM PLAN) | $150,000.00 |
Agentic AI Standard Add-on | One (1) additional IBM Cognos Analytics Agentic AI Pod which enables Agentic AI and related DB storage to the Cognos Analytics Standard Instance | $18,000.00 |
Agentic AI Premium Base/Standard HA Add-on | One (1) additional IBM Cognos Analytics Agentic AI Pod which enables Agentic AI and related DB storage to the Cognos Analytics Premium Base / Standard HA Instance | $30,000.00 |
Agentic AI Premium Production Add-on | One (1) additional IBM Cognos Analytics Agentic AI Pod which enables Agentic AI and related DB storage to the Cognos Analytics Premium Production Instance | $48,000.00 |
DB Storage Add-on | 100 GB DB Storage | $1,800.00 |
S3 Storage Add-on | 50 GB S3 Storage | $300.00 |
The following dimensions are not included in the contract terms, which will be charged based on your usage.
Dimension | Description | Cost/unit |
|---|---|---|
DB Storage Gigabyte Overage | This overage part will be used to bill for usage that exceeds your current DB entitlement | $2.00 |
S3 Storage Gigabyte Overage | This overage part will be used to bill for usage that exceeds your current S3 entitlement | $1.00 |
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All orders are non-cancellable and all fees and other amounts that you pay are non-refundable. If you have purchased a multi-year subscription, you agree to pay the annual fees due for each year of the multi-year subscription term.
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