Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly.
With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions.
Deputy Director Operations Management Control at Mapfre
Real User
Top 10
2022-07-27T11:17:40Z
Jul 27, 2022
The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way.
Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category.
The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them.
Consultant at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-09-13T21:24:00Z
Sep 13, 2021
The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly.
Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-07-06T18:43:08Z
Jul 6, 2021
In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager.
The pricing of this product is meant for medium to large-scale enterprises. These higher licensing costs are why we recommend Pentaho or Talend for the SME segment. For them, they have to minimize the total cost of ownership. This segment is also interested in open-source enterprise solutions, which will reduce their costs to a large extent.
The solution's initial setup process is easy.
It is a stable product.
Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly.
With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions.
The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us.
The main difference that I like about Cognos compared to other solutions is its data splitting functionality. We have all our company data inside the Cognos environment and so we prefer to split the information Cognos itself. It's more efficient this way.
IBM Cognos is an excellent solution for tax, planning, budgeting, profit and loss statements and balance sheets.
Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules.
Comparing IBM Cognos to other applications, once a person is trained on it or they have developed a skill set to operate the application, it is best in its category.
The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them.
We are able to generate quality reports easily which allows us to decrease response time.
The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting.
I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot.
The comprehensiveness or broadness of the software functions or business intelligence functions that it provides is valuable. It is also quite easy to use and user-friendly.
In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager.
The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report.
This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats.
IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team.
IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions.
The initial setup is quite straightforward.
A drag-and-drop interface for selecting creating ad hoc reports makes this product very easy to use.
The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility).
For planning, forecasting, in-boxing, modeling in general and for predicting numbers and doing work analysis, they are excellent.
A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports.
The most valuable feature is developing reports from different data sources, making it a reliable data source.