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What is IBM Cognos Analytics?

Cognos Analytics is an AI-fueled business intelligence platform that supports the entire analytics cycle, from discovery to operationalization. Cognos Analytics gives every user — whether data scientist, business analyst or non-specialist — more power to perform relevant analysis in a way that ties back to organizational objectives. It shortens each user’s journey from simple to sophisticated analytics, allowing them to harness data to explore the unknown, identify new relationships, get a deeper understanding of outcomes and challenge the status quo. Visualize, analyze and share actionable insights about your data with anyone in your organization.

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Product Description

IBM® Cognos® Analytics offers smarter, self-service capabilities so you can quickly gain insight and act on it. The solution empowers business users to create and personalize dashboards and reports on their own - while providing IT with a scalable solution that is available on premises or on the cloud.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Fast analytics anywhere. Provides a unified experience that works the same on web or mobile devices, enabling you to quickly find, analyze, create and share insights. AI-infused data analysis for everyone. Helps ensure more users have straightforward and productive access to data. Reporting and visualization benefit from a guided and intuitive experience that lets you create visuals, infographics, dashboards and reports in minutes. Analytics you can trust. Provides access to curated data that can eliminate risk and debate over numbers.

Key features: An intelligent assistant powered by AI, automated data preparation, guided visualization creation, smart data discovery and trusted analytics with robust data quality and security options.

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IBM
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SWX:IBM
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1-866-277-7488
Year Founded
1911
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Armonk, NY
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$77,147
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@IBM
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www.linkedin.com
519,733 employees on LinkedIn®
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IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world's most advanced servers and supercomputers.

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Video 1: How to upload your own data (11.1.x) Video 2: How to create an exploration (11.1.x) Video 3: How to create a story (11.0.4+) Video 4: How to create your first report (11.1.0+) Video 5: How to create your first dashboard (11.1.0+) Video 6: IBM Cognos Analytics: overview with customer testimonials

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What do you like best?

Its the best among the avilable and we are using this for some time and out ITS team is happy with the product and support. we have also recommended to the other educational pratners in Qatar and their feedback is great and we are growing by day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike?

well to be honest there is nothing much we could say on this as we are happy at the moment and so far it is going very well and even our partners in the group are happy and we welcome any thing further upgrade come on the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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very much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best?

The functionality is wide throughout the product. It just does not do dashboards like other products, but also does enterprise reporting that other products do not do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike?

Mapping is not up to speed as other products, dashboarding is coming along fine but still needs to catch up with products such as Tableau and PowerBi.

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Client questions based on what they ask. Data questions answered faster and at a lesser cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best?

It is possible to make decent looking dashboards for data visualization. The software has a fair amount of power to post-process data, for example, a reasonably efficient join. Despite being a bolt-on acquisition, it integrates nicely into the IBM tool ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike?

Insanely steep learning curve. This is not a software package you can hand to a business analyst without a ton of training. There are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot, yielding a report that completely fails but without a clue what to do next. Also, a lot of the data modeling must be done upfront by the report creator, not a lot of dynamic discovery is possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Really look at who your likely user base is and their likely adoption level. If you just need a couple people who are pros, this package might be fine. But if you want people to be able to just pick it up and dabble occasionally, look elsewhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I used this software to crunch & report on a variety of structured healthcare data related to workflow steps and clinical information. The report was distributed to customers in PDF form for maximum portability, losing a lot of the power along the way because there was no other simple way to distribute it in compiled form outside our corporate walls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I really didn't like it. At best, it was easy to store all your data in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike?

It was hard to pivot, even harder to use. It was outdated and couldn't be easily exported from excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I was looking to analyze large databases and have since switched to mixpanel. We were trying to find out what our sell-through revenue for paritcular lines of our product were. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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IBM Cognos Analytics Pricing

Cognos Analytics Trial
Free
Up to 5 trial licenses per organization
Standard
$15.00 USD
Per user per month
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IBM Cognos Analytics Features

Highest-Rated Features
  • Data Filtering - Data Modeling and Blending
    • 2% above average
  • Data Governance - Data Preparation
    • 3% above average
  • Connectors - Data Preparation
    • 3% above average
Lowest-Rated Features
  • Automodeling
    • -9% below average
  • Score Cards
    • -8% below average
  • Steps to Answer
    • -7% below average
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Data from Grid® Report for Analytics Platforms | Winter 2021
Top Industries Represented
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22
Information Technology and Services
20
Banking
14
Financial Services
13
Government Administration
12
Other
220
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IBM Cognos Analytics User Ratings

7.1
Ease of Use
Analytics Platforms Average: 8.5
7.0
Quality of Support
Analytics Platforms Average: 8.8
6.1
Ease of Setup
Analytics Platforms Average: 8.3
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