IBM Cognos Analytics Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use IBM Cognos Analytics for its business intelligence (BI) functionality in complex reports preparation, data analysis, dashboard formulations, and monitoring business unit's sales performance over the period. IBM Cognos Analytics, helped us in solving various problems ranging from manual reports creation leading lost of hours of turnaround and human error, dealing with data silos within various departments, delay in decision making. Bing business analyst, my scope of use case for Cognos centres around turning scattered data into actionable insights by creating sales insights reports, interactive dashboards for seniors consumption, and data exploration, validation, analysis and storytelling.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited:

Financial reporting - It can handle complex, pixel perfect, muti-page reports with scheduled delivery to stakeholders (like sales report by region on quarterly periodicity)

Operational dashboard across departments - It can combine multiple data sources (ERP, CRM, excels etc) with filters, and embedded AI insights

Less appropriate:

Live dashboards - As stated earlier as well, IBM Cognos Analytics doesn't suit well for live dashboards or event driven data. For ex: live web traffic data or IOT device data, etc

Data science - Although IBM Cognos Analytics is great tool for data exploration but it should not be used as a substitute for Python or R, which has edge over advanced modelling and stats based workflows like predictive modelling or clustering

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Cognos Analytics as part of various leadership reports and insights. The business problem we address is how effective our inventory is flowing and what inventory is in more demand and which location.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I am likely to recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague For enterprise grade data. In my experience, IBM Cognos Analytics is good and the dashboard stories can be created with best visuals,

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cognos Analytics for Running entire reporting for 3k users

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I would likely recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague by saying that I work with IBM Cognos Analytics since 20 years and, I think IBM Cognos Analytics fits every need u might could have

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, IBM Cognos Analytics is used for to produce asset reports and asset utilization reports.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is likely that I would recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague because I think IBM Cognos Analytics is Well suited for enterprise level asset reporting.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cognos Analytics for Inventory, financial, and historical reporting and dashboarding.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I am likely to recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague because it is Easy to use, develop in and obtain the output that I need.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This software has great benefits, but especially for the BI and data mining aspects, but all focused on the decision-making aspect within our company.

Este software tiene grandes bondades pero mas para la parte del BI, la explotacion de Datos pero todo enfocado a la parte de la toma de decisions dentro de nuestra Empresa.

Likelihood to Recommend

Decision making is good but less so for data mining or marketing.

Toma de decisiones es bueno pero menos para mineria e Datos o mkt

<i>This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.</i>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cognos Analytics for Data reporting, tracking personnel, supply chain timelines, etc.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think I am likely to recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague by telling them that As someone who doesn't enjoy creating visual dashboards. IBM Cognos Analytics makes it simple to create visually apealling products

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using IBM Cognos Analytics since its creation. 1000's of reports are run on a daily basis as well as 1000's are run through the scheduler built into IBM Cognos Analytics. IBM Cognos Analytics offers triggering thru the scheduler which we use to confirm the completion or other processes completing the data collection needed to be available before the job is scheduled to run.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cognos Analytics suits our needs for 1000's of reports and information needed daily to keep our business running as smooth as possible daily.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cognos Analytics has been used for several years, and it helps us achieve more than just BI goals. From commissioning to business insight to strategical planning, IBM Cognos Analytics is a very powerful tool and I can't wait to see what's coming next!

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for static reporting as well as dynamic uses, leveraging the same semantic model. All that in a cost effective way that's hard to compete!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, I use IBM Cognos Analytics for analyzing operational data

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion, I am likely to recommend IBM Cognos Analytics to a colleague because I think IBM Cognos Analytics is Good for generating routine company reports and defining standard metrics for the organization.