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Meh...
What do you like best about the product?
Trainings are informative, but almost necessary to use this non user friendly system
What do you dislike about the product?
Too many steps to achieve a result. Not that user friendly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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Cognos helped me to stay abreast of the financial performance of my business.
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of all the financial numbers from my business in one place in order to see how we performed against other locations in our company.
What do you dislike about the product?
I felt that the user interface was not always easy or intuitive to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was able to deep dive into the various departments of my businesses and coach my team accordingly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to be able to have your financial numbers all in one place be able to analyze better, I recommend this software.
Cognos: Business Intelligence Made Easy but not Simple
What do you like best about the product?
Accessible to the technically unsophisticated.
What do you dislike about the product?
So many options, it can be difficult to optimize.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cognos helps establish the link between actions and results. Cognos helps solve the age old problem of determining return on investment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
IBM Cognos Analytics is no flash-in-the-pan software fad. It's time tested and proven, and with IBM's resources and support, Cognos will always be on the cutting edge of innovation.
Dynamic tool useful for more advanced reporting needs
What do you like best about the product?
I like how its a very flexible platform that can be adopted to most any data set. We integrated it with our orion servers. As our application has a completely dynamic structure with almost no standard field sets. Due to the customizable nature of our product we needed something that could work with it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its a long learning curve. We invested a decent amount of time and budget into training staff on this tool IN addition to getting long consulting engagements to aid with support and implementation. I do not see this engagement ending anytime soon. Maintaining this tool entirely in house would be a large undertaking.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a tool that could populate our custom fields data on a on demand basis. Letting us report across multiple tables without the need for any techincal skills involved on the customer end. Additionally having two versions of the tool Report Studio and Workspaced advanced. One for our internal teams to build custom reports and the other for standard end users to work with.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would as the tool however complex. DOes have good help documentation. Its common enough you can find resources online. ALso it looks alot like outlook or excel. Products people may be familar with. The product we give to our end users. Is a much more simplistic version of the tool and its completely customizable. YOu can allow them to have little or lots of functions. Really depends on what your user needs are and how high their comfort level is with using a advanced reporting tool. You can aldo build reports with the standard tools or add Java on top to make it look much more pleasing. We find that this added function allows us to have a reason to make some reporting billable and is an extra line of revenue.
Cognos V11 is just what we have been waiting for...
What do you like best about the product?
The new user interface and graphical capabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
The speed of some advanced reports is 20 seconds to return.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have discovered in insights into our pipeline and the resources needed to support our clients. It helped increase sales by focusing us on the right customers with the right amount of resources.
IBM Cognos
What do you like best about the product?
This software is very user friendly. I like how easy this is to figure out all you need to know.
What do you dislike about the product?
This is one of the most expensive software programs I have come across.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This is a great tool to use to structure the data we have. Also is very secure and reliable.
Excellent reporting tool
What do you like best about the product?
There is a lot of functionality and the basics are easy enough to figure out.
What do you dislike about the product?
You have to be very knowledgeable to use it in depth. It isn't very user-friendly like other tools. It takes a lot of practice and probably some outside training.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for HRIS and payroll reporting. It helps drive many of our dashboard and metric reports, as well as day-to-day management of data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to have a knowledgeable person to trai others.
Small project
What do you like best about the product?
The cloud option. It is that most vendors are going through and with IBM is not different, however, it is my worst experience comparing with other competitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool is very square. It is not very intuitive and the interface is not good. The sample reports that accompany the tool are quite inviting, but a common user can not create them. It is very difficult to create an attractive and interesting product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Foi realizado um projeto simples de Business intelligence para responder questões de ocorrências de polícia.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I believe it is gonna get better, but is not a great tool right now.
IBM Cognos Analytics Review
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to create custom reports without having to necessarily type in cumbersome coding
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, it can be hard to find exactly the field that you are looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We currently use Cognos as the BI engine for our HRIS program. It does exactly what we need it to do. you can create custom reports using your own data with ease. The different formatting options give you the opportunity to build professional looking documents without having to import into MS Office.
Once you Get it, You Get it
What do you like best about the product?
It cube-like interface is very useful when you need pivot table like analytics for line managers or executives. It can slice and dice data in more ways than you need and pretty quickly too.
What do you dislike about the product?
If your turnover is high or if there is not enough specialists on hand to REALLY train it well, its a lost value. The learning curve is steep and it really depends on your base level item level data and input. Can you trust what it is telling you?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used it to tell trends within the overall business all the way down to the rep level per product sub-segment. Once we agreed to 4-5 dashboard reports and strictly limited "custom" reporting in discussion, we started seeing value.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Really evaluate your current data integrity. Congnos is a heavy hitter and can move mountains but is your mountain easy to find?
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