IBM Cognos Controller Reviews & Product Details

IBM Controller offers easy integration with Planning Analytics and provides numerous features for creating financial and accounting reports. I use the application frequently, and whenever I encounter an issue, I have quick and easy access to IBM support. I’ve implemented it several times without difficulty. From my experience, I understand that it is an easy-to-use application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some features of excel-link and client controller Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Link the TB to COGNOS grouping and get going. Enter the date with all the assumptions / actual parameters and your consolidated financial statement is ready to serve to auditors for audit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Struggle to take out the Consolidated Cash Flow for various companies in various countries operating in various currencies. There are some errors always thrown and staruggle starts to match them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Independence from IT leads to faster work and more structured way to define and execute tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was slower, in its earlier build, but with updates, it has improved a lot, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Multiple roles with various right steps

Integration with excel and SAP softwares

Easy user interface

Administrator role can be performed by finance team member, not IT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of shiny colors. Interface used to be black, grey and white (when I used to work on it back in 2012-2015). You wish to have some colors while scratching numbers and aligning budget.

The layout on the screen for changing the properties of a report is overwhelming. It's hard to remember where certain properties live.

Ease of overwriting all data in the cubes - think it should be limited, or somehow warning the user, before the trouble is done Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Definitely the quality of functionality - I assisted with a financial operation in which this tool was used. We primarily looked at this tool as part of a trade study for a short term intern project and ended up using it to generate mock reports for management. The reports were detailed enough that management decided to continue using the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Definitely not the most user-friendly product- most tools used for financial report generation are not. Generally, having prior experience in these kinds of tools helps but for a first time user not in the finance field, it was not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cognos is one of the best tools that our team uses on a daily basis. I would highly, highly recommend to anyone! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

System is going through a lot of updates and changes, and that can cause some delays Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy GUI and robust customization along with flexible reporting. Good customer support practices and easy to navigate support. Sales team is pleasure to work with. I like how you can configure your own home page and have your personal views and can save your views as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clutter icons on toolbar and coloring plus fonts. Dashboard based reporting could be improved and exporting of data needs improvement. The screen also needs better design so that users feel less stressed while using it and should be able to change toolbar buttons and dashboards. We also think it can do better by having settings button on the home page itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easy to use. Data can easily be transformed that eases the reporting process. It has a friendly user interface which allows even those implementing it for the first time to have an easy time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like everything about IBM. However, it can hardly process structured data directly. If you are using another software, the costs of switching might also be high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This software is an affordable cloud based solution to a lot of key business which makes it stand out amongst other software's and creates competition. I love the features in software and it really helps when viewing data and visibility wise. Great for financial analysis and solution base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only part that I dislike is that the layout can be more tech friendly. Most cloud based soft wares have a similar kind of layout which makes it very dull for the user. Along with this, there can be additional features that can be added to help users with their analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the ease of it being a cloud based item- its a great feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not used it long enough to see any significant negatives. For me I need several months to figure out its issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.