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IBM Cognos Analytics, an AI-powered business intelligence platform, empowers data analysis with cost-saving features, intuitive reports, and dashboards. It offers broad data connectivity, AI-driven data prep, and predictive abilities, catering to businesses of all scales. This tool comes with flexible deployment and diverse chart options to ensure top-tier data analysis and integration.

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G2
4.0
Top Comments by G2
Positive Comments
  • Akshat H.Delivery Lead
    Review
    4.5

    We use this for our accounts and its fabtastic. The AI driven approach towards visualization is superb. Its one of the best in class BI products which helps the business in taking right decisions. The data exploration and pridction models are wya ahead of the rest. The intercative and lve dahsboard helps us in making right sense of the data analytics. The actionable insights helps us to move faster and go to market increases by a long way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

  • Rhythm K.IT Engineer
    Review
    5.0

    The best part is the approach that uses Artificial Intelligence for visualisation is great and helps to take great decisions helping to bring better outcomes, prediction models, as well as data exploration models, gives good results, on top of everything the tool is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

  • Shreyansh S.Senior SEO Analyst
    Review
    5.0

    IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson is that it enables organizations to quickly and easily analyze large volumes of data, identify trends and patterns, and gain insights into their operations. By leveraging Watson's AI capabilities, the platform can help organizations uncover hidden insights that might not be apparent using traditional analysis methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Negative Comments
  • Manasvini (Shriya) R.Dreamforce Sales Specialist
    Review
    1.0

    It was hard to pivot, even harder to use. It was outdated and couldn't be easily exported from excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

  • Stephen P.Engineering Program Manager
    Review
    1.0

    Insanely steep learning curve. This is not a software package you can hand to a business analyst without a ton of training. There are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot, yielding a report that completely fails but without a clue what to do next. Also, a lot of the data modeling must be done upfront by the report creator, not a lot of dynamic discovery is possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

  • Nithyananda S.IT procurement Section Head
    Review
    0.5

    well to be honest there is nothing much we could say on this as we are happy at the moment and so far it is going very well and even our partners in the group are happy and we welcome any thing further upgrade come on the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GetApp
4.1
Top Comments by GetApp
Positive Comments
  • Anonymous ReviewerElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing
    Review
    5.0

    Great tool for Sales & Marketing Function

  • Anonymous ReviewerMedical Devices
    Review
    5.0

    It has been good, but I am still looking for the best to match my business practices

  • Federico A.Banking
    Review
    5.0

    It was the greatest experience we have with a BI tool. We really loved it.

Negative Comments
  • jakob A.Computer Software
    Review
    1.0

    Cognos is years behind the modern BI tools like Qlikview/Sense, Power BI and Tableau. I will hopefully never again have to work with Cognos products in the future.

  • Bret W.Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
    Review
    1.0

    No Comments

  • Kathy J.Mining & Metals
    Review
    2.0

    This is the reporting system our payroll company provides us with for weekly reports, its not easy to use and is frustrating. They do have a lot of options for running the report but its difficult to get the report to run.

Capterra
4.1
Top Comments by Capterra
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  • pavan r.IT Manager
    Review
    3.0

    I used Cognos as an analytical tool by linking our ERP (Microsoft Dynamic NAV) to it. All the financial data would be mapped & a lot of customized reports were taken out like Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). The user interface is pretty good. The CUBEs are little confusing but once you get the grip they work very well. The ability to drill down the reports to very basic level is a plus point A little tough to learn & customize. It's a little slow when dealing with a medium amount of data.

  • Henri A.Analytics Market Manager
    Review
    4.0

    We have been using Cognos BI for many years for data reporting and performance analysis. Our business analysts were constantly complaining about the long delays to get data extracts. Withe Cognos Analytics we were in a position to give the BA access to pertinent data extracts in record time and with minimum hands-on training. This empowered them and allowed them to spend more time on building predictions and preparing recommendations for corrective actions.

  • Leon P.SENIOR BI ARCHITECT AND ADMINISTRATION LEAD
    Review
    4.0

    Cognos is one of 2 major Business Intelligence tools on the market. If it is implemented correctly, it could provide complete web-based business solution based on the data analysis. It is a platform which allowing to deliver mission critical analytics to the business including but not limited to Enterprise reporting, Planning & Forecast, OLAP cubes technology, etc.

  • Dawn R.Project Manager
    Review
    4.0

    I utilize Cognos for dashboard and custom reports and the ease of creating and storing reports is fairly simple. The organization of files is a bit confusing and the ability of seeing other employee folders tends to be complication for sharing. The availability to send out reports is much easier though.

  • Catarina A.SAP Business Analyst
    Review
    5.0

    I use IBM Cognos daily, as this is the tool made available by SAP Concur to work with Business Intelligence reports. I use it to provide the necessary information to those who require it, and it works more or less like a database, where you can apply SQL language - but in a slightly different format.

  • Kathy J.Payroll & Benefits Manager
    Review
    2.0

    This is the reporting system our payroll company provides us with for weekly reports, its not easy to use and is frustrating. They do have a lot of options for running the report but its difficult to get the report to run.