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    Patrick C.

My analytics are all created by me at the top of my data.

  • November 23, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like it is easy to use, especially govern. I like that. My users can create their own views or choose from a built-in library. Professional developers can really create amazing perspectives. Business and casual users. May create amazing insights as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the product could benefit from more RESTful API power. The new SOAP API is fully implemented but must be modified. Implementing and maintaining integrations designed with the latest SDK solution can be tedious.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an IS director who manages a few renowned business analytical products, I never use any of the resources sponsored by my team to identify and view information every day. This was improved by Cognos Analytics because it allowed me to link to and model my existing data, upload additional data to that template and then create dashboards and reports that I use every day very easily. Cognos BI has maintained the components that creative, highly-trained experts in data visualization need to and has expanded Cognos Analytics to enable almost any user to find quick answers, without IS assistance.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Whether analytics is an essential evil or a competitive advantage, try to articulate the problem that must be resolved clearly. The idea of lonely analyst mining for analytical gold in tablets and then providing a stunning, c-suite visualization of that nugget is not synonymous with our constant need for insight. Every day, our analytical solution needs a process-based, verifiable version of the actionable truth.


    Insurance

Cognos cubes and data visualization

  • October 25, 2019
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like that my organization uses cognos analytics as a one stop shop for many data sources. It's nice to be able to create visual data as well as extract data with filters
What do you dislike about the product?
So far the only thing I don't like is that I don't have admin rights to have a little more functionality as a developer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating visual Analytics for a wide variety of internal customers


    Mike D.

Cognos has Grown Up

  • October 18, 2019
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What do you like best about the product?
Cognos is a complete solution for delivering insights from data. Whereas many competitors do one or two things very well (create elegant data charts, natural language, etc.), Cognos provides very good tools for all three key areas of modern analytics:

Mode 1 (enterprise reporting)
Mode 2 (data discovery / self-service analytics)
Augmented (AI-driven data exploration)

Also, Data Modules and Datasets are powerful tools for solving all sorts of problems related to data cleanliness and performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
Designing an (on-premise or private cloud) architecture to service a large number of users is complicated.
Some of the latest Cognos features (such as Explorations) don't function elegantly with OLAP data sources (such as TM1, SSAS Cubes, etc.)
No easy path to migrate content built in Dashboards to Reporting tool if advanced functionality is needed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Critical data gets delivered to the users who need in all sorts of ways:

- Flexible prebuilt prompted "production" reports (traditional enterprise reporting). Can be delivered on a schedule or when something happens in the data, or run interactively. These sorts of reports still work really well for many executives who don't want to learn any new tool.
- Stories feature is great for providing a narrative around the data and visuals being shown
- Users create their own interactive dashboards easily and on the fly
- The backlog to IT has been reduced by putting some intuitive data prep tools into the hands of business power users
- Explorations uncover relationships in data that may not have otherwise been noticed and therefore reported on.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be skeptical of Gartner "magic quadrants" and its placement of Cognos Analytics... In our view there are a ton of politics involved. Have worked with a ton of data and analytics tools and often can't make heads or tails of where products show up on the quadrant (actually reading the write-ups can be a bit more insightful).


    Nick P.

IBM COGNOS

  • September 20, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
IBM cognos is extremely easy to use. Very intuitive. Anyone can use this after a short while.
What do you dislike about the product?
The training and training material is extremely poor. Needs to be more comprehensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating trends and tables to organize your data. Pull into Excel for easier and more options.


    Jonathan M.

Cognos Analytics is good at many things and continues to get better

  • September 16, 2019
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
IBM Cognos Analytics provides a platform for governed reporting and data modeling and report development while at the same time allowing for ad-hoc reporting. It continues to incorporate more AI into its
What do you dislike about the product?
Dashboarding is not as intuitive as I would like it to be and its visualizations are not the best, but IBM continues to improve in these areas.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enterprise-wide reporting solution, consolidation of multiple reports. People like the interface because it is pretty intuitive, so employees are up and running quickly.


    Pharmaceuticals

Tm1 for financial analysis

  • August 29, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Tm1 is a very useful and resourceful tool that allows lots of scenarios to be analyzed and compared on a relatively easy manner.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a complex system that requires some level of background knowledge.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analysis and continuous follow up of financial data.


    Information Technology and Services

IBM Cognos Analytics: Upgraded and Smarter Self Service BI Tool which one can trust.

  • August 01, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
We can easily create and share visualizations in different formats.
We can ask questions about the data and can receive brilliant responses.
Cognos Analytics is built-in with natural language-powered AI assistant. So, it can find answers using AI and Machine Learning.
Data Preparation is easier because of built-in intelligence.
We can schedule reports, burst to thousands of users, or enable users to subscribe to reports.
Personally, I feel Active reports is one of the best features in IBM Cognos Analytics. I did not come across about Active reports kind of feature in any other BI tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Compared with other BI tools it is costlier other than that It is an awesome tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Can create pixel perfect and interactive reports.
We can schedule reports, burst to thousands of users, or enable users to subscribe to reports.
We can easily create and share visualizations in different formats.
IBM provides great documentation. We can find the user guide, bug-fixes etc. in IBM support portal.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend IBM Cognos 100% for the customers.
One can create powerful dashboards and animated stories
It has awesome features like built-in with natural language-powered AI assistant. So, it can find answers using AI and Machine Learning.
Data Preparation is easier because of built-in intelligence.
We can schedule reports, burst to thousands of users, or enable users to subscribe to reports.


    Banking

Easy-to-use and has smart graphs however not very fast for data processing

  • June 07, 2019
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I have used this product for almost 1 years. I did too many analysis and graphs with this amazing easy-to-use tool. Its graph recommendations for visualization is good enough.I have used it's features to cleanse and shape the data and also can merge different data sources to get better understanding.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish this program can run its analysis in database with SQL Push Back like SPSS Modeler because for large datasets, it really takes time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use this tool for first looking and analyzing data which I will use in my reports. Via IBM Cognos, I am trying to understand information and possible and meaningful visualization techniques to start my report or model.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend it to use for beginning in a report or analysis. This program can lead you really meaningful and smart graphs.


    Insurance

Powerful report writer

  • June 05, 2019
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Congos makes it easy to access oracle databases
What do you dislike about the product?
Not always intuitive to use but can be useful with training
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to create reports on large data sets
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Powerful report creator, takes some training.


    Higher Education

Great Data Analysis Tool

  • April 08, 2019
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I like Cognos IBM Analytics because it makes it easy for you to visualize and analyze large data sets. It is easy to use after you have some initial training. I like the different export options.
What do you dislike about the product?
IBM Cognos Analytics can be a little difficult to learn how to use. There are a lot of different features and it is not all just drag and drop. You need to understand the underlying data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My organization has a ton of data across different disciplines and IBM Cognos Analytics gives us a way to view and analyze data across the organization.