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    Food & Beverages

Learning more about the tool

  • October 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
If you have the opportunity I would recommend you joining one of the Cognos Analytic conventions through IBM. Learning more about the tool and future releases planned will help you and your leaders make more insightful decisions for the future of your organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Looking forward for more enhancements on graphical representation of the data and story telling. AI enhancements are just starting and I look forward to seeing where you take it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Executive insight to organizational challenges and driving factors behind the perceived "wins"


    Retail

Preparing to upgrade

  • October 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Our Cognos environment is easy to use and provides a rich mix of operational and analytical reporting to our end users.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I really dislike. We moved forward with using Qlik as our dashboarding tool because a few years back the CA dashboarding was not as mature as we would have liked it and we were not in a position to upgrade.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We provide a mix of reports which allow the business to plan for production, inventory, materials and capacity. We also provide a rich set of sales reports which allows our sales team to track where they are relative to plan.


    Higher Education

Review of CA 11 on Prem

  • October 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy the anticipation of new features to review with every quarter release. While my organization may not adopt each release, it is exciting to see where the product is moving and the needs IBM is seeking to serve.
What do you dislike about the product?
On prem upgrade from 10.2.2 to 11.0.10 was not smooth. We had numerous issues show up after a go-live upgrade which did not manifest during our year-long testing. After several consultations with IBM, a few of the remaining major issues have still not been addressed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are still working to get back to a parity position of functionality between our 10.2.2 environment and 11.0.x and have not been able to fully explore new features.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Wait until 11.1.


    Stoyka B.

I like to work with Cognos as it is stable you can relay on it.

  • October 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
the governance of the product and the innovation from the last versions
What do you dislike about the product?
slow moving and a bit running behind the other market players
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
get the data on time to the end users and helping them to get the right decisions on time


    Automotive

Cognos is Great

  • October 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Framework Manager models allow flexibility and control, Transformer OLAP is excellent and popular, reports are easy for users to assemble self-service, bursting and email is easy and popular
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features in one product or studio aren't in another, managing content can be a challenge but are easily augmented with Motio products
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time savings and trust in data, users like drag and drop features without having to know data modeling


    Higher Education

Cognos Analytics offers flexibility in reporting and dashboards

  • October 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
ability to create visualizations and custom data items
What do you dislike about the product?
challenges relates to data cannot always be addressed with the tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Financial analysis, clinical productivity, research metrics and other mission based reporting. Executive dashboards have increased transparency.


    Telecommunications

Refreshed Cognos experience for Analytical users

  • October 04, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Refreshed interface, Dashboard interface, improved visualizations, ease of use for non technical users.
Frequent releases for fixes and enhancements.
Ease of applying the releases.
What do you dislike about the product?
Old Admin Console (within Cognos connection), Configuration dialog is out of date. The interface is sluggish at times and struggles to load content when the count is more than 20. For example: If a particular folder has 50 reports, it takes a while to load the content vs a folder with 5 reports. Mobile is app is very unfriendly on ipads thereby making users rely on native browsers such as ipad which deters users from using Cognos on Mobile devices.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Dashboards are very easy to compile when compared to earlier versions of Cognos (10.x and 8.x). User adaptability and user training is much easier due to friendly interface. The improved analytical capabilities have improved the business perception towards Cognos as a reporting tool.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Cognos has greatly evolved in the past 2-3 years and is on the path to modernize the Analytical reporting. Greatly recommended if looking for the next age BI solutions.


    Insurance

Enterprise wide reporting platform with a solid product roadmap

  • October 03, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Data storytelling feature
Augmented analytics
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently, creating data modules is tedious but with the new product update, I am optimistic that it will make things much easier
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Campaign analysis'
Financial Reporting
Sales performance reporting


    Health, Wellness and Fitness

cognos

  • October 03, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
ease of use, data governance, security,
What do you dislike about the product?
constantly getting rid of products with new versions -- ie Workspace and Portal pages
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
historical reporting


    Banking

Easy to use, powerful tool with some base knowledge

  • October 03, 2018
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Visualization tools to create dashboards
What do you dislike about the product?
Some steps/actions are not intuitive like "going back" to close a report or visualization back to the next step, i end up closing out my session.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data discovery, single version of the truth, problem solving through reporting
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Build your data to be tool agnostic and have CA in your arsenal for reporting and data discovery