Cognos works mostly
January 27, 2016

Cognos works mostly

Andrew Davidson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Analysis Studio
  • Event Studio
  • Query Studio
  • Report Studio
  • Framework Manager

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cognos

IBM Cognos is being used for operations, business analytics, planning, business improvement, and budget forecasting to name a few.

Pros

  • Cognos scheduler works pretty well by sending out reports to groups of users successfully and reliably.
  • Cognos framework is pretty effective for modeling data for us.
  • Report Studio is fairly reliable and works most of the time.

Cons

  • There are missing DB2 functions in Cognos that would be useful to have but most of the time I can program around it.
  • Event studio could be better, it takes forever to load and crashes frequently.
  • Error reporting in Cognos is notoriously non descriptive and very useless. I don't even count on them for much of the troubleshooting I do.

IBM Cognos Analytics Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
6
Drill-down analysis
6
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
4
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
3
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
6
Multi-User Support (named login)
5
Role-Based Security Model
6
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
6
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated

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