IBM Cognos Analytics for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
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Cognos has Grown Up
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.
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
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.
- 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).
IBM COGNOS
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.
Cognos Analytics is good at many things and continues to get better
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.
Tm1 for financial analysis
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.
IBM Cognos Analytics: Upgraded and Smarter Self Service BI Tool which one can trust.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Easy-to-use and has smart graphs however not very fast for data processing
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.
Powerful report writer
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.
Great Data Analysis Tool
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.
Good platform for data sourcing
What do you like best about the product?
Can connect and retrive any data needed for analytics. It has multiple inputs for admins and employees can source any data in a format of their choice easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
Functions are a bit minimal. More options required for filtering data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using the data sourced, I create data models to give a clear picture. Based on which strategies are developed.
Looks cool
What do you like best about the product?
Provides fancy graphics that tells the story easily for Executive Management
What do you dislike about the product?
not end user friendly. Must rely on more technical users to complete reporting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Executive reporting, Graphic solutions and tells story with pictures that can be interpreted fastest
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