As a business user, we try to do cross solutions to provide information for any department, and then we make it scalable. If the performance isn't good, we can either adjust the scalability of the data or the data strategy itself.

Currently, there are more than 2,000 users of Cognos in my organization, as it is mainly a cooperative tool for analysis. I think with the added capabilities and improved user experience of the new version we can extend the use of Cognos to even more people. We try to democratize the analysis of data with the dashboard as it is the easiest way to extend our usage of Cognos.

You can manage functionality.

The tool's scalability is good. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate the scalability of IBM Cognos at seven. We have 25 people who use this solution.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. We have about six people on our analytics team and two IT employees. The IT employees maintain a data warehouse and work with SQL where the data comes to Cognos.

We do not need to increase our usage because our analytics team reports and sends all the information to employees, managers, top management and others in the company.

You could scale IBM Cognos to any size. I don't believe that the institution that I worked with or worked for had it implemented to the best of the application's ability. Therefore, it was undervalued as far as how it was utilized.

We have approximately 500 to 600 people in my organization using the solution.

IBM Cognos was used extensively for its purpose. It could have been used more. We did not need the additional application that was bought by the company. The task that these other applications were being bought for, could have been performed very well with IBM Cognos. However, the management lack of understanding of the application, and they didn't have the skill sets to work with the equipment nor did they have the willingness to work with it.

IBM Cognos is used on a daily basis and sometimes for the entire day. It is scalable. We have approximately 2,500 users using the solution. 

The scalability is quite good. this type of solution is built for enterprises, and our enterprise environment is quite large. the solution handles it well. It can scale.

We encountered a scalability issue, but it has been addressed.

With Active Reports, the size of the data and complexity of our model combined with the size of our audience led to an additional month of development.

Ultimately, the Active Reports were generating far more queries than expected when bursting. In some cases, they produced temp space issues. Most of these issues were mitigated through aggregation, indexing, and partitioning.

We were able to streamline the Active Reports in the process which helped to a degree. The biggest gain, from what we understand, will be seen when we are enabling DQM. This is planned for 2017.

We have 3000 end users of the solution as our customers. I rate its scalability a nine.

With the proper end-user training and internal support, the product seems to scale well. As stated before, it fits the category/need of an “enterprise” business intelligence platform very well.

It is too soon for me to say anything about the scalability, but my impression is that it doesn't matter the amount of data you need to analyze the tool. The background has the infrastructure and the features that allow you to grow according to what you need.

Currently, we have a couple of users but will have five or six more next month. 

No

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I have never encountered any scalability issues. The product easily scales very well.

You can scale the solution if you need to. That's not a problem.

At our organization, we have between 150 and 200 people using it at any given time.

I have found no problems with scalability. With a good server, everything works.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

Once the users are trained on the product, everyone wants to use it, so it’s best when defining your in-house server or cloud that you incorporate future needs.

The scalability of the solution isn't ideal. There are a lot of aspects of scalability that need improvement. 

We have 700 users on the solution.

IBM Cognos is very scalable.

One of our customers has 1,000 users using the solution and 300 unique users every week running reports.

Cognos is scalable.

I have not encountered any scalability issues. Cognos scales very easily and we have several options for scaling the environment.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues. I put a lot of thought and effort into report run times. The biggest problems with scalability are usually with concurrency, so I endeavor to limit this.

We have 700 individuals using the solution and plan on increasing that number. 

We did not encounter any scalability issues. As long as you are following the guidelines set by IBM you should be ok.

I have not encountered any scalability issues. The product is built to be an enterprise solution.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I believe that my company did not configure the product very well, so we did not use the product with full capacity and its scalability features. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Around 50 percent of my company uses the product.

My company has no plans to increase the number of users of the solution. The product is useful mainly for people who make decisions in the organization, meaning it has limited usage in our company.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Scalability is okay.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

We have encountered scalability issues, depending on the hardware that the system runs on.

The solution is highly scalable.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability. Cognos is very good at scaling.

The product is very scalable and can support thousands of end users. HUGE companies are using this product.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

We have not had to scale yet.

Cognos' scalability is good.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

PowerCubes has limits and thresholds. Developers need to be aware of these when designing a cube, and take into consideration the cube performance versus the physical size.

Report Studio for operational reporting against relational data sources is very dependent on the underlying database performance and the design of your metadata model in Framework Manager. Report designers and modelers must analyze the generated SQL and tune the Framework Model and reports.

I rate the solution's scalability a seven or eight.

We currently have mostly data management people using the product and that is a total of about 200 people using the reports.  

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

I have not encountered any scalability issues. Cognos is very scalable. We could have a distributed installation (which we are already using) with multiple content managers and application tier components; we have never faced scalability issues.

Very good. We've been able to add more systems to it and it has no performance problems. We've recently got some guys to rejig it and we've got a lot more performance out of it. We're very pleased. It's clearly an enterprise product.

No, scalability its very easy

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Cognos has different licensing models. PVU license limits CPU and there is need to add that for more users.

We have never encountered any scalability issues.

We have had no scalability issues.

No

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

International distributed systems can have latency and consistency issues. The default round-robin load balancing works well, but the admin needs to remember to configure the weighting correctly.

I have not had any scalability issues.

There are no issues with scaling this product to a large number of users. The technical architecture is such that scaling is handled easily.

There have been no scalability issues. The product is perfectly designed for smaller companies to multi-national companies. The server architecture must be designed accordingly, but it's easy to upscale by adding servers.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

No I did not.

We had some minor issues with scalability.

IBM Cognos is the most scalable option, I think. It can handle thousands of users at the same time. If anything, the only thing you need is hardware that can support it.

This product is usually focused on medium to large organizations.

No issues encountered.

I encountered scalability issues when different users are querying at the same time or if one user is running a big report involving large query (SQL).

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

Scalability depends on the scalability of the source database system and the BI system, as well. Cognos BI can be scaled well, but the scalability of the source database system is more important in most cases, especially when a huge amount of data should be reported/analysed.

I have not encountered any scalability issues. You can install other software and this product can integrate with it – for example, Cognos Metrics, Mobile, PowerPlay and Transformer. This product can also integrate with IBM FileNet, WebSphere, Cognos Data Manager, and MS SharePoint 2010 and 2013.

We have not encountered any scalability issues. The architecture is scalable via the use of separate gateways and dispatchers, and can be scaled to include many servers across multiple locations.

Cognos has the most scalable options in the market. It has options for all, from personal users, to the most complex enterprise organizations.

There were no issues in regards to the scalability.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I think Cognos have problem with their dispatcher performance. In v7, I overrode their impromptu options, to catch performance requirement, while in v8, again, I had to override their dispatcher management with our code. Finally, in v10, we didn’t make any changes to improve Cognos, and now our users leave it.

Yes.

Cognos presents interesting scaling opportunities. Additional servers can be loaded and unloaded as needed, and there are many ways of routing report runs. For larger organizations, it's possible to optimize report runs by having one branch of an organization always run reports from a single server.

I did not find any scalability issues so far.

It is an extremely scalable product, across all distributed platforms.

Not really.

No scalability issues, but the data retrieval times of live data can be horrible.

I encountered scalability issues while reporting across multiple data sources.

No issues encountered.

No.

Scalability is good. We did not encounter any issues.

No issues encountered.

No scalability issues. Scaling is fairly straightforward.

I've encountered issues where calculation runs took upwards of six hours because of data storage and build issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

The product offers enough capabilities for a proper scalable setup.

No issues encountered.

Scalability is okay.

Scalability is fine. I never came across any major issues

No, no problems were found.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

No issues encountered.

No issues with scalability.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.