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Review by a BI Cognos Specialist
What do you like best about the product?
Userfriendly, Eyecatcher, Customization, Progression with updates
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the downside of Cognos Analytics is the step to start is big. Not every user will understand the product fast.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're helping our customers get insides in there data and help the transform to a data driven organisation.
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Cognos: a review
What do you like best about the product?
I find the reports to be pretty customizable. Many cost center departments liked the reports
What do you dislike about the product?
Upgrades require manual labor intensive work. Report writers have to know cognos. Reports could take a long time to generate. One of the problems is the cost. The cost of the tool and the cost to train report writers. Companies want to move away from cognos.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I worked on projects to take legal reports off of old access reports and use cognos. Cognos was customizable but each report needed a report writer. Each report generation was not instantaneous while being developed
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Invest in a team dedicated to report writing and report testing
IBM Cognos Analytics Review
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing is "Quality reports can be run at any time and by any representative with a substantial log-in at IBM Cognos Analytics.The AI enabled exploration and dashboard capabilities are easy to use and exceed expectations
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not simple to use. User has to get the formal training to utilise it to maximum extent. Report pulling is not that much fast. It take quite some time to load and display.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is AI driven, improves the business outcomes.It enhances decision making.Overall it improves business agility.
Great enterprise reporting tool with some average Self-service capabilities.
What do you like best about the product?
Enterprise reporting with one Cognos standard.
Robust solution.
Exploration.
Addition of machine learning.
Robust solution.
Exploration.
Addition of machine learning.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reporting in bank. Parametrize reporting solution for couple of countries.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great for enterprise solution to have all in one. You can reuse the data source through the platform. Do not believe so much to Gartner quadrant. There are not so many equivalent products. I have tried other two of the top and Cognos overall was the best. I am looking forward for AI (Watson) and ML included into the reporting and Self-service.
IBM Cognos Analytics
What do you like best about the product?
The visualization capabilities & the jupyter notebook integration
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes a little sticky to handle the UI
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We do complete company reporting and data exploration with cognos
Cognos analytics review,
What do you like best about the product?
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
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial Reporting
Intelligence solution
budgeting
strategic planning
forecasting, and consolidations
Intelligence solution
budgeting
strategic planning
forecasting, and consolidations
Solid BI Analytic Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Allows users to execute smarter data compilation and report data with visualizations options.
What do you dislike about the product?
The table joining ability can be limiting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organizational effectiveness, C-suite decision making, historical data reporting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Overall good tool for analytical reporting.
The useful tool for generating reports.
What do you like best about the product?
BM Cognos is an excellent tool, frequently used as for a business environment, since the functionalities it offers are very useful, mentioning that it allows its users to enter the platform and change the report in a way adapted to their environments. convenient the way they want to see, without changing the data that is provided to all as a whole, highlighting that I love it since it is a software capable of creating cubes and packages that can be used to extract exactly what you need to visualize in specific in your group you work for.
What do you dislike about the product?
The system does not present a good quality in the graphics of the images that can be created in this platform, including the changes of the pictures, which likewise require an update for complete visual satisfaction, rectifying that the software contains several packages of different functionalities, each of which are high-cost, it would be of great support if these prices were not so high, especially for large-scale economic savings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Cognos in our organization in general terms, as a business intelligence tool for the generation of continuous and high-end reports, which provide us with quite feasible and consistent information on every aspect and issues that the system can compromise, based mainly as a priority before our clients, to provide them with a complete service, in matters of analysis, so that they create and distribute this information in a more appropriate way, as well as for better knowledge and decision-making.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Cognos is ideal for corporate reporting and analytics in which departments that are based in the IT role, create these benchmarks of information and batch dashboards in near real time, especially if you need to configure these formats analytics, in a faster and guaranteed way in every aspect, with a low margin of incoherence, this software offers all the necessary tools to establish an effective work once implemented in a particular platform.
Cognos Analytics - All you need for Modern Business Analytics, for any kind of user, everywhere
What do you like best about the product?
In Cognos Analytics you already have "in the box" all best features, in calculations, graphics and trends, for any business need. The development environment, even for complex customized reports, is really easy and intuitive, and mapping any kind of data source is powerful, to get the perfect data integration. The user experience is excellent, with ease of use for any professional skill, with a few days of education. Moreover, you may sent reports by email to external users on a time basis. Mobile environment for reports is very complete and performing. Another important issue is security of information, based on single user profiles, managed by administrator of Cognos environment. IBM support is pretty good, and the web Knowledge Base very useful
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost of licenses might be lower, in comparison with other competition products. The support annual fee is expensive too. At the beginning the creation of new reports can require a stronger effort than other tools. The creation of multidimensional cubes might be improved in some features, especially as regards the data distribution. New version Cognos 11 had some UI changes that have made some navigation more complex than before; so some functions had to be done manually, this was a big trouble at the beginning of new installation, some user were really unsatisfied
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving many problems and needs of different company areas, for example accounting management, sales accounts, performance management, and we have strongly improved many needs of information to the external users, for example sales agents. We have also used Cognos "packages" to improve data quality and data integration in out organizations, that have different data base and some ERP
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try to know all functions of Cognos Analytics, go deep in analysis, to have the best advantages in your projects
Unique quality when reporting based on business intelligence.
What do you like best about the product?
We can mention that I like this system because it provides a graphical user interface for the creation of reports, which is totally easy, offering flexibility in its use when we refer to general terms, as well as learning and understanding the functionality. of the software as such, including when developing an analysis, as long as users understand the data that is provided by the service, without excluding that one of the points why I love Cognos is because of the authoring environment, which is designed to adopt complicated formats with somewhat inconsistent sources of information.
What do you dislike about the product?
The creation environment that is based on the web, is somewhat slow, which delays the work within the platform in a significant way, offering us low productivity, mentioning that it becomes slower with the constant growth of the size of the data, that is, the more information is attached to the online digital site, the less work performance we can exert, being a large-scale problem that requires a design update on its home page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Cognos in our platform as one of the main business intelligence tools, for the generation of continuous reports and beneficiaries, including to satisfy all the needs with analytical areas for our clients that are considered as potential, since this software allows them our users to create and distribute these brief documents in a safe and effective way, with valuable information for us, since in the same way it allows us to analyze these contextual news to find knowledge for the convenience of the company for better decision-making.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
IBM Cognos is excellently suited to the systems analyst for large markets, be it telecommunications, extensive retail chains, financial institutions, and among other fundamental organizations that use this software, as it offers a great capacity to access the data with multiple dimensions that are totally necessary for a coherent decision making in any business establishment, without excluding that this system is adapted for both high-grade category companies as well as medium and small ones.
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