IBM Cognos Analytics for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
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Good analytics for BIG data
What do you like best about the product?
Cognos is a really useful, powerful platform that can handle a LOT of data and gives you the freedom to organize and compare data in many different ways. I can look at trends in data over different years, quarters, months, etc, and I can also compare across departments at my company depending on how I query the data.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a fairly steep learning curve when using Cognos. It isn't always very intuitive, but lots of that has to do with how your company sorts and organizes their data. Also, there isn't a great way to visualize the data other than by using numbers. It isn't great at helping outsiders understand the information quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to find trends, answer specific questions that department heads have, and track expenses, budgets, basically any data that we want to. As long as the people who need the answers understand the basic information at our company, Cognos does a great job of helping everyone move forward with better information.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're expecting Cognos to be like Tableau or other data visualization software, this isn't for you. It's good at handling BIG data and keeping track of thousands of lines of information, but it doesn't do much to visualize it. It can present it in numeric forms and
Great Interface
What do you like best about the product?
Search options, Updated Interface, Modern Charts, easy to manage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Admin Tab is still old school. It can be improved, especially in terms of monitor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial reporting, Operations reporting, Customer reporting, Cubes
Cognos Analytics On-prem
What do you like best about the product?
New visualizations, better UI, modern graphics, easily customizable front end.
What do you dislike about the product?
Separate locations for administration functions. Fly out screens often truncate data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better user acceptance due to modern UI.
IBM Cognos Analytics opens the door to analytics
What do you like best about the product?
I can see my data in many different ways
What do you dislike about the product?
Not initially intuitive, it takes training and time to get used to
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
What inventory is overstocked in my warehouse. Which of my warehouses are most efficient, can we put warehouse managers together to share processes based on looking at similar data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Build a team with IT and Lines of business together
Analytics Review
What do you like best about the product?
The product give users the ability to do deep dives into their data and gain insights that were previously very hard to find
What do you dislike about the product?
When a software bug is found it is hard to get the proper support for the problem
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better ability to plan for future distribution of products and ability to track productivity of DC;s
Comprehensive Analytics & Reporting Solution
What do you like best about the product?
I like the way IBM has unified its reporting tools with a dashboarding, reporting, and modeling interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
Errors that are generated could be better-explained.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Cognos Analytics on-prem, we're using a governed central source of truth (single FM model off of an EDW for back-office data) to combine information from several areas in our Oracle data used in a wide array of reports.
Cognos - Dynamic report creation to find value to your data
What do you like best about the product?
Cognos enables team collaboration, putting people in the same room from Sales person, business Analyst to PM
What do you dislike about the product?
Data import/cleaning/filtering is a bit limited compared to Excel features...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retail treads for our customers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Starting using Watson Analytics until I realized Cognos was a way more advanced product, with better capabilities. If you ve been using Watson and beeing frustrated, move to Cognos
Learning more about the tool
What do you like best about the product?
If you have the opportunity I would recommend you joining one of the Cognos Analytic conventions through IBM. Learning more about the tool and future releases planned will help you and your leaders make more insightful decisions for the future of your organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Looking forward for more enhancements on graphical representation of the data and story telling. AI enhancements are just starting and I look forward to seeing where you take it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Executive insight to organizational challenges and driving factors behind the perceived "wins"
Preparing to upgrade
What do you like best about the product?
Our Cognos environment is easy to use and provides a rich mix of operational and analytical reporting to our end users.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I really dislike. We moved forward with using Qlik as our dashboarding tool because a few years back the CA dashboarding was not as mature as we would have liked it and we were not in a position to upgrade.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We provide a mix of reports which allow the business to plan for production, inventory, materials and capacity. We also provide a rich set of sales reports which allows our sales team to track where they are relative to plan.
I like to work with Cognos as it is stable you can relay on it.
What do you like best about the product?
the governance of the product and the innovation from the last versions
What do you dislike about the product?
slow moving and a bit running behind the other market players
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
get the data on time to the end users and helping them to get the right decisions on time
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