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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Key benefits of IBM Cognos Analytics Use Cognos to design automated process using an intuitive interface with no coding or IT skills required. Use Cognos Insight to create custom dashboards, apps \& visualizations using data from your desktop, such as personal files, historical data and more. Small \& medium-sized businesses can use IBM Cognos Express to access enterprise-level reporting, analysis, dashboard, visualization, scorecard, planning, budgeting \& forecasting. Use the Android and iOS app to access and interact with reports, analysis, dashboards, and visualizations when on the move. Use the collaboration and social networking-inspired tools to exchange knowledge and information, share insights, and comment on data. Use dashboards to visualize, personalize and interact with data. You can view historical data, data in motion, and predictive analytics on one screen. Use scorecards to measure and communicate performance and to manage and plan strategy with elements such as strategy maps, impact diagrams, \& financial KPI monitoring. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.2/5** | 139 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: IBM ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$10,60 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Contact IBM for a quote for any of the Cognos products. Learn more at: https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics/pricing - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Ad hoc Reporting - Alerts/Notifications - Audit Management - Benchmarking - Collaboration Tools - Customizable Branding - Customizable Dashboard - Customizable Reports - Customizable Templates - Dashboard - Dashboard Creation - Data Aggregation - Data Blending - Data Cleansing - Data Connectors - Data Discovery ## Integrations (48 total) - Adobe Acrobat Reader - Amazon Athena - Amazon Aurora - Amazon Redshift - Apache HTTP Server Project - Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Azure SQL Database - Azure Synapse Analytics - Db2 Big SQL - Denodo - Dremio - Exasol - Firefox - IBM Db2 - IBM Netezza Performance Server ... and 33 more integrations ## Support Options - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Business Budgeting Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/241/budgeting/software) ## Related Categories - [Business Budgeting Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/241/budgeting/software) - [Business Performance Management Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/242/business-performance-management/software) - [Financial Reporting Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/247/reporting/software) - [Business Intelligence Tools](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/318/business-intelligence/software) - [Analytics Reporting Software](https://www.getapp.za.com/directory/931/analytics-reporting/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Grow](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/106023/grow) — 4.4/5 (410 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Best BI tool" — 3.0/5 > **Cherup** | *09 March 2016* | Information Technology & Services > > **Pros**: Performance wise good > > **Cons**: Licence cost is high > > IBM Cognos maintain huge data and so many new features are in new versions.Easy to understand the structure of cognos.It is suitable for medium and large projects . ----- ### "Cognos- All in one tool for data analytics" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *03 February 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: decreases support because of complete report inclusion and a zero-impression climate. abbreviates detailing time because of consistent reconciliation and versatile composing. Further developed independent direction reports and dashboards present information in handily gotten designs. > > **Cons**: Investment in Cognos R\&D by IBM is declining. Won't work smoothly with large data sets having many parameters. Cross-browser compatibility is often problematic. ----- ### "IBM Cognos Report Studio" — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *28 March 2019* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: Complex reports can be achieved with IBM Cognos Report studio, great for setting up scheduled reports. > > **Cons**: Interface is not user friendly, certain features are not logically placed.Charts are not great when downloaded into Excel. > > I would recommend for company reporting, works great with a big database ----- ### "Business Intellegnce Software with Standard Reporting And Self Service BI" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *16 October 2018* | Government Administration | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Cognos Analytics is a flexible software for Standard Business Intelligence Reporting as well as for Self Service Data Visualization capability. You have the option to connect to a variety of the Data Sources as well as Multi-Dimensional Cubes. The new invention of Cognos Analytics software provides a greater flexibility for enterprise deployments and upgrades. It has the new feature of NLP (natural language processing) for predictive analytics by IBM Watson. > > **Cons**: Too many modelling tools (Cognos FrameWork Manager, Dynamic Cube Designer, Cognos Transformer) for modelling the content. Too many studios (Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio) for report development. Maintainence and cost is huge > > Overall it is a great product to use ----- ### "Effective Tool for Customer Management" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *06 November 2022* | Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: - Provides great Dashboards- Provides effective Reports- Helps in Data Visualization > > **Cons**: - Requires training to understand it effectively- Not very intuitive > > Great tool for Sales \& Marketing Function ----- Page: 1 / 7\ Next: [Next page](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/9919/ibm-cognos-analytics?page=2) ## Links - [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.za.com/software/9919/ibm-cognos-analytics) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-MX | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | ----- ## Structured Data