IBM Cognos Analytics Reviews & Product Details

Enterprise reporting with one Cognos standard.

Robust solution.

Exploration.

Addition of machine learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slow adaptation of new features and fixes form the official support.

Development do not much listen for community enhancements ideas - more then 2 year to get the feature to implementation.

Self-service not in Power Bi standard.

Bad straight connection to the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cognos is a good enterprise tool, security works well to a point and with the new developments is easier to use than ever before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IBM took away fix lists which enabled people to justify the upgrades necessary, The support process needs work as currently it is not an easily accessable tool and the development team can take 10 days to reply! the IBM Cognos Analytics tests are a joke based on old versions that require out of date knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is good for Standard Reporting as well as Adhoc Reporting and the ability to generate useful reports and dashboards on demand across multiple sources is invaluable also combining multiple queries in one report to create your desired report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cognos Analytics can be hard to learn how to use. You have to really understand your data first so that you can figure out how to make the tool do what you need it to do. Interactive pdf is not available for reports. Can be difficult to implement without admin support for end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Userfriendly, Eyecatcher, Customization, Progression with updates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the downside of Cognos Analytics is the step to start is big. Not every user will understand the product fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Allows users to execute smarter data compilation and report data with visualizations options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The table joining ability can be limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

El mundo cambiante de hoy en día necesita de soluciones ágiles que nos ayudan a anticiparnos para mejorar nuestra productividad empresarial.

Cognos es uno de los Bussines Intelligence más fáciles de usar por su intuitiva interfaz de usuario, fácil de navegar, y con la que podremos hacer cuadros de mando e infografías y creación de informes profesionales que podremos exportar en múltiples documentos, como hojas de cálculo Excel.

La toma de decisiones nunca fue tan fácil, basada en un análisis de modelos de datos extraídos de centenares de registros, proporcionando las soluciones necesarias para responder a las preguntas de negocios más difíciles, encontrando patrones, a la par que reduce los costos.

Otra de las grandes ventajas es la flexibilidad y escalabilidad de la aplicación para PPYMES. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hay muchos bugs en la herramienta.

Requiere de una inversión muy costosa para tu empresa.

Es una herramienta muy pesada que requiere mucho espacio de disco para la base de datos OLAP.

Implementación compleja de realizar, de hecho el despliegue en un servidor WebSphere ha dado muchos fallos.

A pesar de su interfaz intuitiva, requiere de una etapa de Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to user.

User friendly.

Good analytical tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Installation and configuration is bit complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing was about saving time with automated data preparation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Designing an (on-premise or private cloud) architecture to service a large number of users is complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cognos Analytics is an upgrade to Cognos Business Intelligence (Cognos BI). By adding cognitive guidance, a web-based interface, and new data visualization features, Cognos Analytics provides self-service analytics to large and midsize organizations across all industries. At the same time, it provides security features, data governance, and management features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No option for Planning, budgeting, forecasting, Data exploration, model development, and training Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clean interface

Robust analytical function Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complex set up

queries function is confusing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance reports can be run in IBM Cognos Analytics at any time and by any employee with a valid log-in. Daily process occurs each evening, in addition to month-end and preliminary processing. The interface enables users to share content and reports with a business team or maintain a personal file of reports that are used internally only. Sorting and labeling reports and folders is easy and straightforward for users who are familiar with PC operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Running reports can be slow when data are being loaded to the Data Warehouse, thus limited the tool's usefulness when reports are needed ASAP at an inconvenient time. There is also a learning curve for new users to become comfortable with using the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Cognos Analytics suite provides a broad spectrum of functionality in a single package as opposed to having to use a large number of third party tools to supplement requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The new UI is simply terrible paticularly in Reports Builder.

There appears to be a complete disregard for the positioning of icons and duplication of functions.

The in windows pull down tabs are not used consistently. For example when editing a report you get an in window pulldown tab but when you run the edited report you get a whole new browser tab. However when you just run the report without editing it once again is an in window tab. Powerplay cubes also generate a separate browser tab.

There is no inbuilt version control software.

Bullet charts changed radically from the prior version to no longer creating a single chart with multiple bullets per category. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the fact that there is one Reporting Tool for all user roles, the improved Search capabilities, and the context sensitive functions. We are using 11.0.12. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Dashboard Tool capabilities require improvement so that it is not necessary to use the Advanced Reporting Tool for formatting fonts, and complex user requirements like showing detail list reports along with Visualizations in a dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cognos has a strong "engine" that is able to manage our student and school data for a school District that is over 100 000 students. We have used Cognos as a reporting tool to support our focus on continuous improvement using data-drivenm decision-making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I bvelieve Cognos has the engine of a BMW. However, for report writers and users of the product, it needs to be more user-friendly and have more flexibility to support a more 21st century look and feel to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That new features that are needed are being quickly updated and usable in the tool - this makes it very viable and easy for end users to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Transformation off of some older management consoles come over partially or slowly; like cognos administration is only 1/3 of feature of the older console version and it is way more flexible and can do bulk edits. Do not put out a tool until it is fully functional Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simplicity. The product works great and wonderful product integration with Data. The search is powerful and visualizations are great.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not exactly dislike. Too many powerful features and not organized as story books. If they were guidewires or guide by examples, that would have been wonderful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that as an IT member, we can expose data using a Framework Model and Data Package then the business can drag-and-drop whatever they want to create their own Report and Dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Creating a conection directly to a Data Source, without creating a Framework Model and Data Package, is very limiting in what the users can do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel that the cognos suite of analytics is a phenomenal too for clients to develop key insights in order to develop KPI's and to continue to serve organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial set up can be cumbersome in some client environments. If the client has a smaller environment and not enough resources to analyze data or set up adequately, finding resources to properly make use of the data can be a challenge as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Started using Cognos reporting solution when it was report studio, lots of improvements around visualizations. Dashboards are a huge improvement for our sales folks, and helps display data in a meaningful way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The new user interface for report authoring seems clunky and disjointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Congos makes it easy to access oracle databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not always intuitive to use but can be useful with training Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to build a custom model in Framework Manager to standardize the data model across teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of source control and versioning support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded is a great reporting tool. It allows you to view reports and information that normally would be too large and timely to digest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The creation is a little difficult, but overall, it is a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Powerful report development. Detailed customization options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dynamic cubes are cumbersome to build/support. Don't have a good replacement for power play and transformer is no longer recieving enhancments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The modeling of the data and the fact that the data needs to be structured before it gets ran in reports FM modeling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the complex mature of mass changes. some times the admin is tough Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.