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IBM Cognos Analytics

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10
Category
IBM Cognos Analytics
8.3 /10

What is IBM Cognos Analytics?

IBM Cognos Analytics offers smarter, self-service capabilities so you can quickly and confidently identify and act on insight. The engaging experience empowers business users to create and personalize dashboards and reports on their own - while providing IT with a proven and scalable solution that is available on-premises or in the cloud.

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Awards & Recognition

IBM Cognos Analytics won the following awards in the Business Intelligence & Analytics - Midmarket category

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IBM Cognos Analytics Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

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92 Plan to Renew

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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+89 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love IBM Cognos Analytics?

6% Negative
2% Neutral
92% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Respectful
  • Unique Features

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Data Exploration and Visualization

85

Dashboard

84

Collaboration

83

Data Connectors and Data Mashup

83

Operational Reporting Capabilities

83

BI Platform Administration

82

BI Security

81

Intelligent Alerts and Notifications

80

Self Service and Ad Hoc Capabilities

76

Mobile

74

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Customization

85

Availability and Quality of Training

84

Business Value Created

83

Quality of Features

83

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

Ease of Data Integration

83

Ease of Implementation

81

Ease of IT Administration

80

Breadth of Features

80

Vendor Support

80

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

79

IBM Cognos Analytics Reviews

Věra G.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Smart product for financial analytics

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates IBM Cognos Analytics from other similar products?

Highly developed features and functions

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Dashboards

What do you dislike most about this product?

not applicable

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try this smart product for your financial analysis.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Ismael G.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2022

create a real-time analysis.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates IBM Cognos Analytics from other similar products?

IBM Cognos Analytics is a software with the best in technology through which we have made large volumes of data from our company, another platform that we use due to its great capacity for functions and characteristics was the work tool, Salesforce Analytics Cloud which does not provided real-time data fetching and feedback and helped us create better collaborations with all of our team, we also used Yellowfin software which was great for analyzing all of our business data in an easy and simple way.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the positive aspects of this service is that we can control the quality of the data, which helps us with automatic cleaning and preparation of the data, which allows us to have a better visualization and make concrete and safe decisions. Through its operation, it offers us resources such as support for price planning that provides us with a managed solution for up to 200 users, outstanding functions such as control panels, narration and collaboration, creation of business reports and budget management that adapts to all organizations.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Thanks to its great capacity and its wide range of functions, they have allowed us to be able to execute PDF reports and spreadsheets, the information processing is done by creating an automatic cleaning of all the data, it could be said that it has increased productivity and efficiency in our organization, eliminating repetitive work and creating a complete view of all our results and customer traffic on our websites.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

its creation capabilities are unmatched by any other tool, it gives us the best functions to create dynamic reports, helping us to obtain good results, it allows us to carry out a flexible workflow, and it helps us make decisions based on our experience with the data obtained, It gives us functions to store and create a processing of all the important data of our organization.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Tracey B.

  • Role: Finance
  • Industry: Finance
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2022

report in real time.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates IBM Cognos Analytics from other similar products?

IBM Cognos analytics is a system with self-service and artificial intelligence capabilities that helps our organization to report and analyze in real time the data of our potential clients, collecting information in the cloud and creating an impressive visibility of our business, enhancing the marketing and sales service, allows to devise strategies to attract customers through email campaigns and videoconferences, in a system that can be used by small and large companies and with a monthly budget accessible to users.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the standout features of this service is the flexible pricing options for individual users and global businesses. We can visualize in real time the performance of our company through spreadsheets, with programs such as Excel, to have an estimate of how many sales have been generated monthly and have control of finances. It makes it easy for businesses to try out their service with a free trial and schedule meetings. It provides us with data preparation and cleaning by identifying the most important information.

What do you dislike most about this product?

One of the functions that the service can improve would be the ease of implementing the platform in small businesses that are starting up, helping with tutorials to start and practice its functionality. They could also include the ability to share PDF files in each report that we are writing and that the service has compatibility with all web browsers.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

definitely if it is a tool that I would recommend for large organizations, because it adapts very well to their needs, our experience with this software has been very good, because we have managed to increase the efficiency and workflow in our company, it has proven to be a fantastic product that helps make personalized and interactive reports, creates a database of all the marketing we do, our sales and potential customers.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Caring
  • Respectful

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