Robust platform delivers excellent reports and insights while needing improvement in self-service capabilities
What is our primary use case?
Our clients utilize IBM Cognos mainly for static reporting, board packs, business reporting, and insights.
What is most valuable?
IBM Cognos is a robust governed platform with significant security features and provides excellent graphics and reporting. One of our customers can get a full company update on a Monday morning from all of this data via Cognos Analytics.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in self-service analytics and predictiveness.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using IBM Cognos for over five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the stability of this solution as nine out of ten, indicating it is highly stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the scalability of IBM Cognos as six out of ten. It can be scaled out to other teams, but requires building cubes and implementing policies.
How are customer service and support?
I rate technical support from IBM as eight out of ten, indicating a high quality of service.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
Setting up IBM Cognos is quite complex. I rate it a four out of ten in terms of ease.
What was our ROI?
Our clients have seen a return on investment, evidenced by one customer who can get a comprehensive company update through Cognos Analytics.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I rate pricing as a four, meaning it is more expensive compared to other solutions.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend IBM Cognos and rate it six out of ten overall.
Data Reporting for All
What do you like best about the product?
Report development is quick and easy to pick up. There are many options for configuration and customization to bring your reporting to the next level.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a learning curve, just like any other tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need structured reporting. Cognos helps us deliver canned reports for our end users daily, weekly, and monthly.
Great for all types of output
What do you like best about the product?
One report can be exported to multiple formats with just a click
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be difficult to create complext reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifies problem customeres and accounts. Makes it easy to deliver key insights to users
Cognos Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
Good Reporting tool for enterprise solution
What do you dislike about the product?
clients comparions about basic functionalities which are hard to get out of the box
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cognos Dashboard has helped consolidate the clients data into one vizual dashboard that they have not seen befoew
Overall Great Product for the Market and User Friendly Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of Use
AI Driven Data Dashboards
Scalability
Excellent Support
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning Curve
Issues with Large Data Sets
Confusing Features
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data Silos and Disconnected Systems
Complex Data Analysis
Reporting Bottlenecks
Performance Monitoring
Good product for corporate reporting
What do you like best about the product?
IBM Cognos Analytics is great for corporate reporting. It comes with great pixel perfect reporting. More important, it has additional capabilities for audit and compliance by using IBM's Motio DevOps suite leveraging zero-touch version control and deployment.
With te capabilities to do reporting and dashboaridng it is a complete suite for organizations.
What do you dislike about the product?
It needs education and skills to fully leverage the product. Report Authoring can be complaex and is not designed for every user.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IBM Cognos Analytics is key to deliver Business Analytics when strickt guidelines are needed, apporval processes must be in place ton ensure the most accurate and reliable BI implementation is required.
All in one Reporting solution
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility to use data, to visualiye and do standard reporting for all kinds of users without missing reaching out to data experts
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes features come a bit tooo late, like Project Ripasso
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Day to day Reporting to seize control over the companys business on different departments and assist management in making proper decisions
Wirte a honest review on IBM Cognos Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
Cognos Analytics features stringent data protection, unlike spreadsheets, where there is a considerable risk of losing original data while working in a team. Since each team member is given a different copy in this instance, any changes are unique to their edition. Incorporate an AI chatbot that can answer any query and even perform mathematical computations when requested in natural language, just like you would in a conversation with a friend. Consequently, no SQL code or queries need to be written. Finally, team members may remain on top of important deadlines and accomplishments by using push alerts that can be transmitted between devices.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are times when the cloud version is a bit slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All of our data is secure and accessible to all stakeholders, including administrators, staff, and customers. Numerous data science tasks, like forecasting and displaying trends as graphs, can be completed without writing any code.
All of our data is secure and accessible to all stakeholders, including administrators, staff, and customers. Numerous data science tasks, like forecasting and displaying trends as graphs, can be completed without writing any code.
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IBM Cognos Review
What do you like best about the product?
the way they approch candidates and explaing about the role and responsibilities
What do you dislike about the product?
Taking more time to release the offer letter
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
easy to visilize the information
IBM Congons
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of Use, Ease of implementation. A wider variety of charts especially Geographic charts.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not many companies ask for IBM Cognos. Most companies ask for Power BI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Comparing future and past techonolgy usage. Finding the trend in the usage of techogoly we can have prediction for further decision making.