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IBM Cognos is primarily used for business intelligence and reporting within our organization.
I am uncertain whether our organization uses AWS as a cloud provider, but we do subscribe to some SaaS applications, though I do not know where they are hosted.
IBM Cognos is used in the education industry.
From my experience, we use regular dashboarding with IBM Cognos for producing scheduled reports and for mandatory regulatory reporting. All our departments use IBM Cognos, with each department developing their own reports while our corporate IT team provides the data.
Some people use the interactive dashboards feature of IBM Cognos, and there are also other tools in use. I think some users utilize Power BI and Tableau, but our IT organization only provides IBM Cognos as an enterprise business intelligence and reporting tool. IBM Cognos is evaluated and complies fully with all our security standards.
In my opinion, IBM Cognos is very stable. It has been around for many years and many users are familiar with it, ensuring it performs well in its intended capacity. The benefits of choosing IBM Cognos, aside from cost savings, include having institutional knowledge for maintaining this infrastructure and a reliable solution that enhances developer productivity, given our team's extensive experience with IBM Cognos.
We are generally satisfied, but I am not certain if IBM Cognos meets every feature request from users since we only provide IBM Cognos as our standard and do not maintain infrastructure for other tools.
I have been using IBM Cognos for less than a year.
I find IBM's support and customer service to be responsive, particularly as we have been an IBM Cognos shop for a long time. Our systems team, operating on a lot of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and maintaining long-term relations with IBM, benefits from good support coverage.
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While I am not directly involved in the setup, I know that DataStage is not difficult to set up. However, our infrastructure team faced many challenges setting up the Cloud Pak cluster on-premises, including the initial establishment of an OpenShift cluster and deploying Cloud Pak for Data on top of that solution.
The actual report development is done by other people, while our infrastructure team provides the hardware and our system engineering team manages the installation and application maintenance for IBM Cognos.
I do not know the main differences between IBM Cognos and other business intelligence tools such as Tableau, since many users come from different teams with prior experience using various tools. Whatever tools they are familiar with likely influences their reporting solutions. While I do not track the specifics of other user tools, those who have the budget may subscribe to different solutions.
I do not use Dell PowerStore or Dremio. I work for a university setting with a very simple infrastructure, so we only use IBM Cognos and IBM DataStage.
I am very new to the organization with less than a year of experience, but IBM Cognos has been used here for more than 16 or 17 years.
I work in the higher education space at Boston College with approximately 9,000 to 10,000 students total.
I do not develop reports for IBM Cognos. We only host IBM Cognos infrastructure for our different user groups.
My responsibility involves working with different IT teams who maintain systems across the university. I connect to them using IBM DataStage to perform ETL activities and load data into an Oracle database, from which I provide access through IBM Cognos. My team maintains the infrastructure for both DataStage and IBM Cognos.
Regarding integration, I use IBM DataStage.
We use IBM DataStage on Cloud Pak and migrated from InfoSphere DataStage. The Cloud Pak version is also installed on-premises in our own data center. The modern OpenShift cluster-based platform is what we refer to as Cloud Pak.
The installation of Cloud Pak for DataStage happened almost two years ago, while IBM Cognos has always been in place.
I believe we are currently using version 11.2.4.
Referencing the machine learning capabilities of IBM Cognos is not my expertise. I do not have information about the pricing for IBM Cognos since that is managed by a different team which handles procurement.
We only provide support for IBM DataStage and IBM Cognos.
I would rate this review 9 out of 10.
IBM Cognos is a very comprehensive analytics tool that dissolves the challenge of turning complex and large data sets into clear, actionable insights by providing an intuitive platform for data visualization and reporting. It helped me quickly identify trends, monitor key performance indicators, and make informed decisions.
IBM Cognos offers a wide range of data visualization options and allows for seamless data integrations, which made the analysis process more efficient.
I also appreciate the predictive analytics capability of IBM Cognos, which enables forecasting and proactive planning, benefiting me by supporting smarter business strategies and better business outcomes.
I appreciate the built-in AI features that IBM Cognos offers, which help guide insights and suggestions, making it easier to understand patterns in the data.
The AI features in IBM Cognos helped me gain deeper insights into our business processes, enabling me to make data-driven decisions easily and understand which points need our attention and which areas of our business are performing well.
IBM Cognos has positively impacted my organization by providing an intuitive platform for data analysis.
IBM Cognos has helped me quickly identify trends, monitor key performance indicators, and make informed decisions. It has not only saved time but also improved accuracy in our analysis.
The data analysis capabilities of IBM Cognos help turn complex and large data sets into clear actionable insights.
Since IBM Cognos is a futuristic platform with many robust features, it takes time to grasp all the features and how they work, so there is a learning curve. The more I use this platform, the more confident I become, and I am able to explore more opportunities.