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I have seen a return on investment, as I mentioned earlier about time saving and productivity gains, with a consistent governed data model that reduces the risk of errors.
I have seen a return on investment with time savings and productivity gains, as we have consistent, governed data models that reduce the risk of errors by eliminating manual data entry.
Our systems team, operating on a lot of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and maintaining long-term relations with IBM, benefits from good support coverage.
I rate technical support from IBM as eight out of ten, indicating a high quality of service.
I would love them to be proactive and responsive twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Support is generally fast for Sev1 or Sev2 tickets but slower for lower-severity tickets.
I rate Oracle's technical support as very good, giving it a score of 8 to 9 out of 10.
The response time is not that good.
The scalability of IBM Cognos is very good, as it has continued growing with my organization's needs, allowing us to analyze and store a significant amount of data and handle our organization's growth efficiently.
It can be scaled out to other teams, but requires building cubes and implementing policies.
I rate the scalability of Oracle Hyperion as an 8 out of 10 because it remains a top choice in the market.
Even though we deal with a huge amount of data, it is capable of handling it, making it very stable.
I rate the stability of this solution as nine out of ten, indicating it is highly stable.
Cloud configurations have not exhibited issues like crashing or slowing down for significant data volumes.
We sometimes encounter bugs and need to connect with Oracle Support.
Integration with Azure login makes trouble.
One area where IBM Cognos falls short is that sometimes the application breaks for no reason many times and is fixed on restart.
There is room for improvement in self-service analytics and predictiveness.
It is user-friendly and offers several advantages in financial reporting and consolidation.
After moving to PBCS and EPBCS, the per-user license fees can be reduced, particularly for bulk users.
The pricing model could be more flexible as it's more expensive than its competitors.
I rate pricing as a four, meaning it is more expensive compared to other solutions.
I believe the pricing is affordable and pocket-friendly for every organization.
The pricing model is on the higher side compared to its competitors.
I love the seamless and efficient data integration capability of IBM Cognos Analytics, where it allows us easy merging of data from various sources such as customer feedback and sales figures.
The AI features in IBM Cognos helped me gain deeper insights into our business processes, enabling me to make data-driven decisions easily and understand which points need our attention and which areas of our business are performing well.
We have been able to save about 60% of our time from IBM Cognos Analytics, which helps us to make data decisions easily while also saving a lot of time.
It enables me to input data directly based on my security and business lines, with an inbuilt calculation engine for data aggregation and reporting.
This issue has been resolved, and Oracle Hyperion data can now be updated, with data loads completed in 30 minutes.
The feature that allows automation of the budgeting and forecasting process is extremely valuable, especially when compared to Excel.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| IBM Cognos | 1.3% |
| Microsoft Power BI | 8.9% |
| Tableau Enterprise | 6.2% |
| Other | 83.6% |
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Oracle Hyperion | 4.9% |
| Anaplan | 6.9% |
| CCH Tagetik | 5.1% |
| Other | 83.1% |

| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 34 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 23 |
| Large Enterprise | 88 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 16 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 6 |
| Large Enterprise | 38 |
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides a wide range of tools to help you analyze your organization's data. IBM Cognos BI allows businesses to monitor events and metrics, create and view business reports, and analyze data to help them make effective business decisions.
IBM Cognos applies techniques to describe, summarize, and compare data, and draw conclusions. This allows users to see trends and discover anomalies or variances that may not be evident by simply reading data. Data sources that contain information from different areas of a business can be stored in separate packages. Users can see only information that they have been granted access to, based on their group or role.
IBM Cognos BI consolidates the following business intelligence functions into a single web-based solution:
Reviews from Real Users
IBM Cognos stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its powerful analysis tool and its reporting capabilities.
Prasad B., a senior software engineer at a financial services firm, notes, “The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report. We can receive automated reports as well. They are easy to schedule on a weekly or monthly basis. It is very fast. I mean in means of report output, it's very fast compared to the actual clients involved.”
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