Flexibility in customizing reports and allowing developers to build and maintain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complex to build reports without in depth training and features in Cognos Reports are not available in dashboards, thinks like parameterizing inputs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of creating and analyzing reports in different browsers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not so easy to build reports on a smartphone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use without any programming knowledge. Cognos Analytics integrates data from a vast base with security and accuracy, generating sophisticated and useful reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The price! Compared to other BI tools, it is very expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robust tabular and paginated reporting (PDF/Excel)

Powerful scheduling & report bursting

Strong security, governance, and AI integration

Scalable for enterprise-grade deployments

Integrates well with IBM ecosystem (Watson, Cloud Pak) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steep learning curve; dated UI

Setup/configuration is painful

Licensing & contracts can be expensive and convoluted

Visualisations lag behind market leaders

Community/support/documentation could be much improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is full stack. I an create fully detailed reports and super fancy dashboards. And over the past five years the number of improvements are tremendous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is difficult to use for novices, especially the reporting module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It works with many kinds of data and helps make nice dashboards.

It gives smart ideas from data, is easy to use, and lets people work together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it is slow and a few parts look old. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the ibm cognos analytics his build used most advanced techs and the have for accurate analysis and validation then best results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the ibm cohnos analytics his build used most advanced techs and the have for accurate analysis and validation then best results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the convenience it gives the user, watching the clients do something as quickly as the tool does, specific for each one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A bit complex to write the logic of the Cognos language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Security, stability, easy to use, self reporting, modern and follows the trends. Good AI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it has a long learn curve, but beside that there are not major flaws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data security is tight with Cognos Analytics unlike spreadsheets where there is high risk of losing original data while working in a team. Here each team member gets a different copy such that any change made is limited to his or her edition. Add to it AI chatbot that answers all the queries (even perform mathematical computations) as the query is raised in a simple English like talking to your friend.So no need to write a single piece of SQL query/code. Finally push notification that can send notifications across devices for keeping tab on important deadlines and accomplishments while working in a team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cloud version at times can be a bit slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.