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Overview

IBM Cognos is a suite of business intelligence and performance management software, that includes dashboards, reports, forecasting, visualization & automation.

Cloud, on-premises, and desktop analytics platform offering data visualization, AI-assisted insights, and collaboration tools for.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

10.6

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

15

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.2

139

5

4

3

2

1

54

63

17

2

3

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
72%
would recommend this app

4.6

2.3K

5

4

3

2

1

1.4K

769

92

19

7

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
80%
would recommend this app

Pros

“I like the reliability and friendly customer support team of IBM Cognos Analytics.”
AM

Anna M.

Sales and Marketing Manager

“It has great functionality for reporting purpose.”
HS

Harpreet S.

Continuous improvement specialist

“I was able to show data in a relevant and interesting way thanks to the software, which offered a variety of possibilities for designing visually appealing and interactive reports.”
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Joseph M.

Senior Engineer

Pros

“For example taking leads from CRM, adding customer data from ERP, adding external website users who completed our squeeze sheet and overlaying geo data - amazing!”
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Brian K.

Senior Director

“It provides strong visualization capabilities and makes data analysis more accessible once you become familiar with the platform.”
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Cara H.

Adjuster

“It makes it easy to visualize data and identify trends that you cant easily see when working directly in a spreadsheet or static reports.”
LL

Lauren L.

President

Cons

“The cubes were not easy to define at first”
EH

Edward H.

Lead infrastructure engineer

“They need to work on their compatibility with web browsers, it did not work with Opera.”
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Federico A.

CFO

“The story telling capabilities are not seamless enough and consume too much efforts to be reach the desired effect.”
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Henri A.

Analytics Market Manager

Cons

“Its very slow to load, and the sharing links are annoying you should be able to copy the browser url instead of taking an extra minute to load the shareable link”
MS

Mrwa S.

Senior Solutions Engineer

“Also, it is rather difficult to embed Tableau dashboards into web pages and provide interactive action from the web page level; the Tableau.js library and support is slightly limited.”
RS

Robert S.

Data Analyst

“It can be slow with large datasets, and some tasks require extra data prep outside Tableau.”
SB

Sachita B.

Student

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last reviewa month ago
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  • Last review13 days ago

Key features

  • Total features76
  • A/B Testing
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Analysis
  • Ad hoc Query
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Annotations
  • Association Discovery
  • Audit Management
  • Authentication
  • Automated Data Preparation
  • Bayesian Analysis
  • Behavioral Analytics
  • Benchmarking
  • Campaign Tracking
  • Categorization/Grouping
  • Charting
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Contextual Search
  • Customer Database
  • Customer Journey Mapping
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Customization
  • Dashboard
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Aggregation
  • Data Analysis Tools
  • Data Blending
  • Data Capture and Transfer
  • Data Cleansing
  • Data Coding
  • Data Collection
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Dictionary Management
  • Data Discovery
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Governance
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Integration
  • Data Management
  • Data Mapping
  • Data Migration
  • Data Mining
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Quality Control
  • Data Security
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Warehousing
  • Database Support
  • Demand Forecasting
  • Drag & Drop
  • Dynamic Content
  • ETL
  • Element Analytics
  • Email Management
  • Embeddable Widget
  • Event Logs
  • File Storage
  • Financial Reporting
  • For Education
  • For Healthcare
  • For Sales Teams/Organizations
  • For Science
  • Forecasting
  • Functions/Calculations
  • Generative AI
  • Geographic Maps
  • Heatmaps
  • High Volume Processing
  • Information Governance
  • Integration into Third Party Applications
  • Interactive Elements
  • Interactive Reports
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Marketing Reports
  • Master Data Management
  • Media Analytics
  • Metadata Management
  • Mixed Methods Research
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Dashboards
  • Modeling & Simulation
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Channel Attribution
  • Multi-Channel Data Collection
  • Multi-Language
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Query and Conversational Analytics
  • Natural Language Search
  • OLAP
  • Performance Metrics
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Private Dashboards
  • Profitability Analysis
  • Public Dashboards
  • Publishing/Sharing
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Query Builder
  • ROI Tracking
  • Radial Mapping
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Regression Analysis
  • Relational Display
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Sales Reports
  • Scheduled/Automated Reports
  • Scheduling
  • Scorecards
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Self Service Data Preparation
  • Self Service Portal
  • Self-service Analytics
  • Sensitive Data Identification
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Server Monitoring
  • Single Page View
  • Single Sign On
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Statistical Simulation
  • Storytelling
  • Strategic Planning
  • Survival Analysis
  • Task Management
  • Templates
  • Territorial Mapping
  • Text Analysis
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Trend Analysis
  • Trend/Problem Indicators
  • User Management
  • User Research Analysis
  • Visual Analytics
  • Visual Discovery
  • Website Analytics
  • Widgets
  • Workflow Management
  • Total features149
  • A/B Testing
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Analysis
  • Ad hoc Query
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Annotations
  • Association Discovery
  • Audit Management
  • Authentication
  • Automated Data Preparation
  • Bayesian Analysis
  • Behavioral Analytics
  • Benchmarking
  • Campaign Tracking
  • Categorization/Grouping
  • Charting
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Contextual Search
  • Customer Database
  • Customer Journey Mapping
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Customization
  • Dashboard
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Aggregation
  • Data Analysis Tools
  • Data Blending
  • Data Capture and Transfer
  • Data Cleansing
  • Data Coding
  • Data Collection
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Dictionary Management
  • Data Discovery
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Governance
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Integration
  • Data Management
  • Data Mapping
  • Data Migration
  • Data Mining
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Quality Control
  • Data Security
  • Data Storage Management
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Warehousing
  • Database Support
  • Demand Forecasting
  • Drag & Drop
  • Dynamic Content
  • ETL
  • Element Analytics
  • Email Management
  • Embeddable Widget
  • Event Logs
  • File Storage
  • Financial Reporting
  • For Education
  • For Healthcare
  • For Sales Teams/Organizations
  • For Science
  • Forecasting
  • Functions/Calculations
  • Generative AI
  • Geographic Maps
  • Heatmaps
  • High Volume Processing
  • Information Governance
  • Integration into Third Party Applications
  • Interactive Elements
  • Interactive Reports
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Marketing Reports
  • Master Data Management
  • Media Analytics
  • Metadata Management
  • Mixed Methods Research
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Dashboards
  • Modeling & Simulation
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Channel Attribution
  • Multi-Channel Data Collection
  • Multi-Language
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Query and Conversational Analytics
  • Natural Language Search
  • OLAP
  • Performance Metrics
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Private Dashboards
  • Profitability Analysis
  • Public Dashboards
  • Publishing/Sharing
  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Query Builder
  • ROI Tracking
  • Radial Mapping
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Regression Analysis
  • Relational Display
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Sales Reports
  • Scheduled/Automated Reports
  • Scheduling
  • Scorecards
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Self Service Data Preparation
  • Self Service Portal
  • Self-service Analytics
  • Sensitive Data Identification
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Server Monitoring
  • Single Page View
  • Single Sign On
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Statistical Simulation
  • Storytelling
  • Strategic Planning
  • Survival Analysis
  • Task Management
  • Templates
  • Territorial Mapping
  • Text Analysis
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Trend Analysis
  • Trend/Problem Indicators
  • User Management
  • User Research Analysis
  • Visual Analytics
  • Visual Discovery
  • Website Analytics
  • Widgets
  • Workflow Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations29
  • AWS Lambda
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Agentforce
  • Airtable
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Asset-Map
  • BigQuery
  • Collibra
  • Control-M
  • Databricks
  • Dataslayer
  • Ellucian Student
  • Firefox
  • Five9
  • Forsta
  • Funnel
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • IBM Db2
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Iterable
  • Jira
  • MariaDB
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Project Server Subscription Edition
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Microsoft Teams
  • MongoDB
  • MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
  • MySQL
  • Observe.AI
  • Oracle Database
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prodigal
  • Rock RMS
  • SAP BW/4HANA
  • SAP HANA Cloud
  • SAP NetWeaver
  • SAP Sales Cloud
  • SAS OnDemand for Academics
  • Safari
  • Safetica
  • Sage Intacct
  • Slack
  • Snowflake
  • TIBCO Data Virtualization
  • Tableau
  • TimeXtender
  • VMware Greenplum
  • Workato
  • Zapier
  • Zoho CRM
  • Zoho Notebook
  • Total integrations42
  • AWS Lambda
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Agentforce
  • Airtable
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Asset-Map
  • BigQuery
  • Collibra
  • Control-M
  • Databricks
  • Dataslayer
  • Ellucian Student
  • Firefox
  • Five9
  • Forsta
  • Funnel
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • IBM Db2
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Iterable
  • Jira
  • MariaDB
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Project Server Subscription Edition
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • Microsoft Teams
  • MongoDB
  • MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
  • MySQL
  • Observe.AI
  • Oracle Database
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prodigal
  • Rock RMS
  • SAP BW/4HANA
  • SAP HANA Cloud
  • SAP NetWeaver
  • SAP Sales Cloud
  • SAS OnDemand for Academics
  • Safari
  • Safetica
  • Sage Intacct
  • Slack
  • Snowflake
  • TIBCO Data Virtualization
  • Tableau
  • TimeXtender
  • VMware Greenplum
  • Workato
  • Zapier
  • Zoho CRM
  • Zoho Notebook