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IBM Cognos review

Carlos Larrad Salgado
Carlos Larrad Salgado
Deputy Director Operations Management Control at Mapfre
Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department
I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality....
Information Builders WebFOCUS review

reviewer1972854
Data Warehouse Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
A flexible mainframe product with unique file features and a rock solid scheduling...
Their latest release is called 9.0, and they added some new functions. This solution used to get awards on the level of documentation before they were bought out by TIBCO. Lately, though, they're releasing the product with major changes that are not documented at all. We've caught them on that. We'll ask technical support, "Where is this?"...

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