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Small project
What do you like best about the product?
The cloud option. It is that most vendors are going through and with IBM is not different, however, it is my worst experience comparing with other competitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool is very square. It is not very intuitive and the interface is not good. The sample reports that accompany the tool are quite inviting, but a common user can not create them. It is very difficult to create an attractive and interesting product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Foi realizado um projeto simples de Business intelligence para responder questões de ocorrências de polícia.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I believe it is gonna get better, but is not a great tool right now.
IBM Cognos Analytics Review
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to create custom reports without having to necessarily type in cumbersome coding
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, it can be hard to find exactly the field that you are looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We currently use Cognos as the BI engine for our HRIS program. It does exactly what we need it to do. you can create custom reports using your own data with ease. The different formatting options give you the opportunity to build professional looking documents without having to import into MS Office.
Once you Get it, You Get it
What do you like best about the product?
It cube-like interface is very useful when you need pivot table like analytics for line managers or executives. It can slice and dice data in more ways than you need and pretty quickly too.
What do you dislike about the product?
If your turnover is high or if there is not enough specialists on hand to REALLY train it well, its a lost value. The learning curve is steep and it really depends on your base level item level data and input. Can you trust what it is telling you?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used it to tell trends within the overall business all the way down to the rep level per product sub-segment. Once we agreed to 4-5 dashboard reports and strictly limited "custom" reporting in discussion, we started seeing value.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Really evaluate your current data integrity. Congnos is a heavy hitter and can move mountains but is your mountain easy to find?
Complete analytics tools in one place at your disposal in a very easy to use and stable UI.
What do you like best about the product?
It provides a complete set of web based tools that allow user to look at data visual, analytics, intuitive scorecards and key performance indicators measurements that is catered to my organization. It takes large big data and organized into an easy to understand graphs and reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
It works great with windows based computers at work but when access with Mac at home, there are some slow down when used with Safari browser.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Trying to make use of our large customer data and interpret the results of our promotional activities. It allows to know what we did wrong and tweak it for the next promotion events and campaign.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would definitely recommend Cognos for organization who deal with large volume of data on a daily basis and wanted to create meaningful data visuals, dashboard and executive summary for upper management to comprehend and use for decision making.
Frameworks manager is great
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility of development by creating many data sources using Frameworks manager.
Personally, I am a big fan of Frameworks manager. In comparison to something like SAP Universe (UNX), it provides flexibility and ease of adding/removing data sources without impacting existing data sources & metadata.
For report development, having vast amount data sources through Frameworks Manager allows them to do less custom/one-time objects for individual reporting objects.
Personally, I am a big fan of Frameworks manager. In comparison to something like SAP Universe (UNX), it provides flexibility and ease of adding/removing data sources without impacting existing data sources & metadata.
For report development, having vast amount data sources through Frameworks Manager allows them to do less custom/one-time objects for individual reporting objects.
What do you dislike about the product?
Like most web browser based application, random browser issues from even windows update.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reports for sales, purchasing, accounting/financial, inventory and rebates.
Working on many reports, the toughest challenge is the ever changing requirements. This is where Frameworks Manager has been great. We were able to make changes to data sources or add them quickly without impacting existing data source objects.
Working on many reports, the toughest challenge is the ever changing requirements. This is where Frameworks Manager has been great. We were able to make changes to data sources or add them quickly without impacting existing data source objects.
Reporting and cubes
What do you like best about the product?
Fully functional and scaleable to meet the needs of enterprise companies.
What do you dislike about the product?
Higher cost and not as nimble as some of the competition out there shaking up the industry.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Operational reporting and some analytics.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Product is in transition and trying to stay competitive.
Powerful tool but not user friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to do deep dives into datasets allows for great insights.
What do you dislike about the product?
Maneuvering between multiple analysis can be difficult at times due to web-based and rigid nature.
Query run time can be slow.
Query run time can be slow.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Understanding expenses and FTE
Report Builder
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it's a complete report builder and scheduler. From start to finish, you can work in Cognos to build the report and have it automatically schedule to pull data into a formatted report and have it directly send email to clients.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how it's so difficult to customize a report from a generic table to one presentable to the client. Changing color, aligning text, group and page layout require a lot of effort to make into a full fledged report.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This solves reporting problems by giving an environment to create reports and deliver them or just scheduling the data to send to required users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good tool to have if there is an experience Cognos user that has developed in it.
Capturing data can be done with other tools and data can be manipulated in other tools but Cognos can give you 1 stop shop if you know how to do it.
Capturing data can be done with other tools and data can be manipulated in other tools but Cognos can give you 1 stop shop if you know how to do it.
Use it for Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use. Reports come out clean and performance seems okay.
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult/expensive to make changes to reports without in-house expertise.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gain a view into the data that is housed in our application - able to share counts with business partners
quite useful
What do you like best about the product?
Dashboards and reports can be created very easily and also offers good flexibility in how the reports are made. I didn't need to install the application on my laptop. I can easily create reports and generate charts on the browser.
What do you dislike about the product?
I had some problems when using it on Mac book or on some browsers.
The documentation provided by IBM is not very good and understanding Cognos initially might be a little confusing.
The documentation provided by IBM is not very good and understanding Cognos initially might be a little confusing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was in the process of trying different tools for data visualization purpose and Cognos analytics was one of them.
IBM offers another product, IBM Watson analytics which was much easier to use in certain ways than IBM Cognos. There is not much differentiation among a lot of the tools available in the market for basic dashboard generation.
IBM offers another product, IBM Watson analytics which was much easier to use in certain ways than IBM Cognos. There is not much differentiation among a lot of the tools available in the market for basic dashboard generation.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
good for normal data visualizations but you will get better products for the same price these days.
It is better to select a product based on your specific needs in the long term as the dashboards provided by a lot of applications offer similar options.
It is better to select a product based on your specific needs in the long term as the dashboards provided by a lot of applications offer similar options.
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