Data insights have driven smarter decisions and support proactive planning for key business areas
What is our primary use case?
IBM Cognos is a very comprehensive analytics tool that dissolves the challenge of turning complex and large data sets into clear, actionable insights by providing an intuitive platform for data visualization and reporting. It helped me quickly identify trends, monitor key performance indicators, and make informed decisions.
IBM Cognos offers a wide range of data visualization options and allows for seamless data integrations, which made the analysis process more efficient.
I also appreciate the predictive analytics capability of IBM Cognos, which enables forecasting and proactive planning, benefiting me by supporting smarter business strategies and better business outcomes.
What is most valuable?
I appreciate the built-in AI features that IBM Cognos offers, which help guide insights and suggestions, making it easier to understand patterns in the data.
The AI features in IBM Cognos helped me gain deeper insights into our business processes, enabling me to make data-driven decisions easily and understand which points need our attention and which areas of our business are performing well.
IBM Cognos has positively impacted my organization by providing an intuitive platform for data analysis.
IBM Cognos has helped me quickly identify trends, monitor key performance indicators, and make informed decisions. It has not only saved time but also improved accuracy in our analysis.
The data analysis capabilities of IBM Cognos help turn complex and large data sets into clear actionable insights.
What needs improvement?
Since IBM Cognos is a futuristic platform with many robust features, it takes time to grasp all the features and how they work, so there is a learning curve. The more I use this platform, the more confident I become, and I am able to explore more opportunities.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used IBM Cognos for the past three and a half years.
Empowering Data-driven decisions with IBM Cognos Analytics: A practical and Insightful Experience.
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.
Dependable Analytics Tool That Simplifies Reporting Across Teams
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
Complete End User Reporting Analytics Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to create complex reports/dashboards by novice data users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be difficult to locate historical reports for novices.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick access to data for analytics based decisions rather that gut instinct of managers/area leads.
Simple but powerful
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy is to build a dashboard within minutes when data is available. I was impressed with the Assistant when creating a dashboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
The simplicity can restrict users from creating more complex reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We still in testing stage with Cognos, however, we have the IBM Cloud Pak for data available in our department.
Data structure 2nd to none
What do you like best about the product?
This product offers outstanding data integrity and governance, making it the best available on the market. It is also capable of handling any size or scale, which sets it apart from other options.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing involves more than just the overall cost; it also includes the various pricing models available.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All the Reporting capabilities
Tool is flexible to create all queries needed including graphical charts
What do you like best about the product?
Features built into the tool and continual development and support of the tool
What do you dislike about the product?
Depending on Data Structure and fields, may be difficult to pull the correct information
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to quickly access aggregated or compilation of data with all info in single report. Ability to dump into ms excel for further compilation and filtering
Cognos Analytics Review
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility in customizing reports and allowing developers to build and maintain
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex to build reports without in depth training and features in Cognos Reports are not available in dashboards, thinks like parameterizing inputs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows large amounts of data to be sent to business users for pivots/lookups moving the load off of TM1 cubes.
Great tool to build enterprise level analytics reports
What do you like best about the product?
The IBM support for the product and the ease of usage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Talent availability for the product would help to get the right engineers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing business reporting for various business transaction data. Providing dashboards for business users.
its a great tool for us
What do you like best about the product?
The tool is easy for us and knowledge is very complet
What do you dislike about the product?
in this moment our tool is on premise, its not same at cloud.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
developm analisis for the business for the decision makin
