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Cognos in Higher Education
What do you like best about the product?
Cognos is a powerful BI tool. It has been set up to be integrated with several of our existing databases to allow us one interface to pull data on demand, or send scheduled reports to university stakeholders. It has just enough needed to make the menus and layout easy to use, without overwhelming the users. I like the features that allow it to save reports on my own dashboard or to make available to other users on different campuses. This ensures we are using the same parameters when looking at data and cuts out repeat work from multiple departments. This has truly helped us run our programs and make decisions on real-time data instead of using manual data tracking as in the past.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cognos is very selective with which browsers work best. For example, some browsers will not even let me log into the system, while other browsers let me log in, but do not allow me to write reports. I have only found one browser which will support Cognos all around, but unfortunately, it can be buggy at times. The filters freeze and I often get server timeout errors. This could all be related to our individual campus and where our data is housed, but it does inhibit my productivity at times. Other times it works just great. Really can be hit or miss.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Cognos to pull enrollment, demographics, grades, registration habits, academic standing, basically everything we need to know about our University. It allows us to collaborate, and remain consistent with our data over time. We are also able to work anywhere and have access to Cognos cloud.
Let's us go everywhere
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of interface and security allows us to access important data securely
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes system can be slow but that may be the systems feeding into it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allow us to access vertical applications in our industry
Upgrading to IBM Cognos Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of use and new look of Cognos Analytics. We've used Cognos 10 now for quite some time.
What do you dislike about the product?
I like the look but since it is so different, it's also difficult to find the features and functionality I'm used to using.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We combine data from many sources for project performance and we also have our Peoplesoft accounting data in a data warehouse. This offers a quick way for us to create reports for our Financial users.
Cognos Review
What do you like best about the product?
This product presents information in a concise way.
What do you dislike about the product?
This product runs slowly and does not have an easy learning curve. The product also isn't attractive--it lacks style.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collecting and distributing data for a team is made easy through this product.
We used it to write some reports out of our ERP system
What do you like best about the product?
Automation and layout as well as having the data readily available every morning for analysis
What do you dislike about the product?
Ease of use and trying to get edits moved
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data readily available every morning to see where things are throughout our workflow
Powerful BI tool for business insight and reporting
What do you like best about the product?
The Cognos is very powerful to leverage the big data - you can have all the ways to design the report and get what you wanted. It provides all the ways to design the report - Query Studio/Report Studio/Active Report/Event Studio ... I like to use the report studio to design the reports and set in the schedule so I will be able to receive it as planned. Query studio give you a quick way to look into the data. Active report provides you the more flexibility to be more interactive with the data.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's always tricky to use the reporting. Not easy to take on the active report quickly and user friendliness is in question. If you are ready to invest a big resource in the platform, this would be a great one to go for. The tool is a little heavy not a very light one and sometimes you got stuck in a unknown error code which caused a big trouble.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use the tool to design the reports which provide the insight how the network performs. This data and how it presents are very important for network technicians and engineers to understand the network performance.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a powerful tool but not as easy to ramp up quickly as other tools. So if you are ready to invest in the tool and people, you will be benefiting so much from it by getting more insight from data.
IBM Cognos Review
What do you like best about the product?
I like that one is able to compile large data sets and derive meaningful results using Cognos.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the interface; it is antiquated and sometimes loads slowly, depending on one's connection.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving problems relating to potential theft and fraud.
Cognos has every function we need!
What do you like best about the product?
I like the versatility of Cognos. Although it can seem a bit foreign at first, the user ability is actually quite easy. After no time I was figuring out how to do the most complex of tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
On the same token, I wish the interface was more modern. It looks a bit archaic and the graphics could definitely use an update.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a software that would connect multiple departments with sales data figures. Cognos allows us to run numerous ad-hoc reports that each department utilizes in a different way.
It works, but not the most user friendly software.
What do you like best about the product?
It is a commonly used software among the corporate world. It standardize the data sources before you query out the database, so definitely save you time on data cleaning or data preparation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface looks like it is never updated since the 90s, it really is not user friendly.
To elaborate on how it is not user friendly, besides the interface appearance, it would be helpful if they have a search function for the data item within the package and it would also be helpful if they can show the item content directly after included in the query or report item.
To elaborate on how it is not user friendly, besides the interface appearance, it would be helpful if they have a search function for the data item within the package and it would also be helpful if they can show the item content directly after included in the query or report item.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To obtain data decision reports from multiple data sources that do not link together directly otherwise.
We are able to manage large amount of data through this visualize query that does not required direct coding.
We are able to manage large amount of data through this visualize query that does not required direct coding.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The trend of data really gear toward user friendly, visualize, self-service goals, which are the area Cognos are not strong at.
Easy to use, fast, reliable
What do you like best about the product?
Coming from SAP BO, I was almost stunned by the ease of use of IBM Cognos.
Before I started using Cognos I had to wait days, or weeks, to access updated reports now is only a matter of seconds, sometimes minutes.
Before I started using Cognos I had to wait days, or weeks, to access updated reports now is only a matter of seconds, sometimes minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
The remapping of all the dimensions in the different environments.
Due to this, I had to redisign all my queries.
Due to this, I had to redisign all my queries.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had a big problem of NRT data availability. Now, with the new infrastructure in scalable cloud, all this has been made possible.
Even the maintenance speed of queries has been increased significantly.
Even the maintenance speed of queries has been increased significantly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There are no specific contraindications. If you intend to switch all your reports and data easily, consider a tiling between your current BO solution and Cognos.
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