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IBM Cognos Analytics
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IBM Cognos Analytics Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives
IBM Cognos Analytics product overview
What is IBM Cognos Analytics?
Cognos Software by IBM is a family of business intelligence products with tailored solutions for businesses of all sizes. The software combines standard BI features such as reports, dashboards, advanced data visualization, real-time monitoring, analysis, and forecasting, with advanced features such as performance scorecards and strategy management, collaboration tools, and financial planning and analysis. You can also use Cognos to design automated workflows and data integrations.
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IBM Cognos Analytics pricing information
Value for money
3.9
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139
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10.60
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IBM Cognos Analytics features
Functionality
4.2
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Total features
75
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IBM Cognos Analytics users reviews
Overall Rating
4.2
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139
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VIKAS S.
Information Services, 10,001+ employees
Used other for 6-12 months
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It is AI driven, improves the business outcomes.It enhances decision making.Overall it improves business agility.
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.
Nabeel C.
Government Administration, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall, if there is a company that wishes to automate it's reports and improve efficiency across their organization, Cognos is a must-have tool. There is a bit of upfront cost involved to get the reports created in Cognos but the efficiency achieved is almost unparalleled.
Cognos is an incredibly powerful reporting tool offered by IBM and it has a wonderful ability to be customized across different industries and companies. It can transform work efficiency but automating virtually any data that exists in a company's primary accounting and finance system.
Cognos is not very user-friendly and often times it can take a while for an individual working with Congos to get familiar with the functionality and the power this tool possesses. Furthermore, report writing and query studio functionality require some database knowledge so the true power of the tool is sometimes limited by these factors.
Curt J.
Insurance, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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It’s a means to an end. Not perfect, but no tool is. Pretty much everyone I know in the industry operates in a multi-tool BI environment. Cognos, like most, hasn’t been able to put together the full package.
Pixel perfect printing. Most competitors have tagged printing as a way of the past, but there’s still a half generation that relies heavily upon it. This can’t be overlooked.
The flexibility/functionality of the viz tools can’t compete with competitors. I think it also has a more difficult learning curve. It isn’t an intuitive tool.
Robert G.
Construction, 10,001+ employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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It brings a lot of functionality all under one roof. Our team found the "visualization" a little easier in Cognos vs Power BI, but the paginated reporting better in SSRS/PBIRS. We ended up transitioning entirely from Cognos to the MS stack and the broad consensus by the team is it was an overall welcomed upgrade. We're starting to consider Tableau or Looker, but returning to Cognos isn't on our horizon.
The ability to visualize data in many way all using the same utility is beneficial so we don't have to worry about multiple deployment/support patterns. Having an in-memory OLAP option made performance less of an issue compared to hitting an on-prem database directly for everything. The ability to add custom code allows for some really creative solutions to unique business problems in reporting.
We felt the interface and functionality was a little dated - our more technical employees were fine but the more analyst-type developers preferred something "prettier"/"friendlier" like Tableau/Power BI. It also got expensive for us which was one of the two the primary reasons we transitioned. This is obviously dependent on the number of users, so consider your own environment of course.
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Government Administration, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall it is a great product to use
Cognos Analytics is a flexible software for Standard Business Intelligence Reporting as well as for Self Service Data Visualization capability. You have the option to connect to a variety of the Data Sources as well as Multi-Dimensional Cubes. The new invention of Cognos Analytics software provides a greater flexibility for enterprise deployments and upgrades. It has the new feature of NLP (natural language processing) for predictive analytics by IBM Watson.
Too many modelling tools (Cognos FrameWork Manager, Dynamic Cube Designer, Cognos Transformer) for modelling the content. Too many studios (Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio) for report development. Maintainence and cost is huge
IBM Cognos Analytics FAQs
IBM Cognos Analytics has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $10.60/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)
Q. Who are the typical users of IBM Cognos Analytics?
IBM Cognos Analytics has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
Q. What languages does IBM Cognos Analytics support?
IBM Cognos Analytics supports the following languages:
English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
Q. Does IBM Cognos Analytics offer an API?
No, IBM Cognos Analytics does not have an API available.
Q. What level of support does IBM Cognos Analytics offer?
IBM Cognos Analytics offers the following support options:
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