IBM Cognos Analytics Reviews - Page 3

Customization and more options to tune performance improvements. Many ways to connect databases like FM. Direct datasource, usage of stored procedure, and usage of database trigger is good.

SDK has to be bought as separate package, whereas it should be given free.

Enterprise level BI implementation can be with less customizations. Can build robustic solution using product.

Most of small and medium size will not prefer this product because of the cost. Real time analytics will not be available.

The flexibility of the product and scalability of the solution.

Enterprise offerings are a bit pricey. For SMBs it can be a difficult conversation to justify the costs.

This software is very flexible and extensive enough to meet almost any of your needs. The reporting engine allows for complex queries and views that far surpass standard reporting methods.

While I was not involved in the purchase of the software it is my understanding the cost was a little high and this is not designed for novice users.

I love that you can report off any field and get results. There are calculations and graphs and so many tools to create any type of report for any data.

I struggle with all the information and fields and calculations. I'm old school!!

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

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.

Easy to create report

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This product will do just about anything you want it to do. It does take more of a skilled employee in order to create things. However, anyone can run things once they are created.

This product is pricey, especially for a mid range company. It takes a lot of training and setup to get the product going as one would like.

I like the ability to create reports on the fly.

I do not have any dislikes other than the staged rollout of pieces of my prior firm's datamart.

Being a IBM product it pack quality. great functionalities and features that defeat the competition.

It's hard to setup. Installation and configuration process is a pain. The space usage for this software is to high. The IBM Windows services is slow on startup and service errors can be very difficult to diagnose due to bad log structure or description.

I like the easy access, great UI, and several ways to interpret data.

It still needs to catch up with other advanced tools in this field.

Unfortunately, there is not much to write in this section. The only possible "pro" in all cases would be the flexibility offered in the product as far as setting up the framework. Other than that, not much to like.

User interface was slow and clumsy. The user experience was not smooth at all. There was no ease of use whatsoever. The retrieval times from the back end were even worse. We had to retrofit an existing n-tier system to use the reporting side of this software and it was a disaster. There is no way I would recommend to anyone to purchase this system.

This is a very good tool for analytics and for reporting. The tool has plenty of features. The drag and drop feature is very useful.

Though this tool has many features, this is not exactly easy to learn tool. Report generation could have been faster.

Cognos is a great tool for reporting. The visuals are not awesome but there is a lot of customization you can do for reporting.

It can be difficult to learn at first. It is not as easy to pick up as Tabeau. Googling for solutions can be tough.

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Expensive product comparatively with other latest BI products in the market and revolving around BIG DATA.

Its is a wonderful tool to make the reports.It has many functionalities and we can make different type of reports like PIE , BAR and many more. It has cool functionality, Good security features. we can connect to different types of databases.

Some times we were unable to save the reports.Rest all good. High pricing.

Very Powerfull

It' Great Product

I like that Cognos is incredibly intuitive. I can easily navigate through the program to finish coding and changing anything I need.

I sometimes struggle with coordinating upgrades and running up against other software/products. Some of that though is me.

standard reports are great to pull from the system and tbhe user interface allows us to easily create new reports

file size get pretty large due to the data and the other info it needs to pull and regenerate charts.

I had used the IBM Cognod Sales Compensation tool while working a global high tech company. It took a while to learn the system but once you figure it out then it was easy to use and configure the plans.

The only issue I had at the time was the very long time it would take to run a calculations. Average was an hour.

Once set up, the end user can easily get into advanced reports and simply navigate as needed to get information in a repeatable manner.

There are some odd, not intuitive quirks; however, I presume that’s a consequence of an organizations configuration and less about the software

Easy to use across an organization to keep things updated in real-time and organized.

System does run slow at times when multiple users are editing a number of workbooks or sheets within the workbook.

Customizeable, if you know how to code. Probably could be a good tool if you have a team of trained Cognos experts that deliver all the reports and dashboards in very old-school Enterprise way.

Very very bad UI, unintuitive, messy and buggy. Very fiddly to get things right when creating reports.