# MetaManager Reviews
**Vendor:** BSP Software  
**Category:** [Other Analytics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-analytics)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 3
## About MetaManager
BSP Software provides comprehensive administrative tools for your IBM Cognos needs. MetaManager increases ROI for any IBM Cognos Analytics investment by auditing, streamlining, automating, and maintaining Cognos environments. Cognos Admins can save hours of work each day with bulk updates, documentation, security changes, deployments, automatic backups, and much more with the power and flexibility of MetaManager.




## MetaManager Reviews
  ### 1. Very

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Peter B. | Risk Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2023

**What do you like best about MetaManager?**

Fast, very clear, detailed, feeds updating fastly

**What do you dislike about MetaManager?**

Free margin section for  spot trading while it must not be activated

**What problems is MetaManager solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Monitoring transactions and total exposure

  ### 2. MetaManager, at times life savings

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2020

**What do you like best about MetaManager?**

Easy of modifying lasget amounts of objects quickly.  Ability to audit and find issues in your environment.

**What do you dislike about MetaManager?**

Keys expire or error when upgrading software.  Due to how the sign in works usually has to be installed on a production server.

**Recommendations to others considering MetaManager:**

Make sure all admins have access to the installation location.  Carefully review all the modules you may want as they are sold piecemeal.

**What problems is MetaManager solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Finding broken report views.  Repointing report views to new versions.  Finding unassigned reports.  Modifying detailed security settings.

  ### 3. MetaManager is the best, most comprehensive IBM Cognos Analytics tool on the market.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020

**What do you like best about MetaManager?**

ROI and time savings for bulk tasks, documentation, and security inquiries and changes.

**What do you dislike about MetaManager?**

So much functionality and power that it is hard to know every feature of the product.  Luckily, their support is top notch and you can ask them anything.

**Recommendations to others considering MetaManager:**

Very Powerful Tool -  If you are a Cognos Admin or just looking to free up some of your time from implementing Cognos changes, you have to save yourself time and money and get this product.

**What problems is MetaManager solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Solving Cognos upgrade issues and Security Migration that could take months now, can be done in a day or two.  
Documentation that could take several hundred clicks, can be done with a drag and drop.


## MetaManager Discussions
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