IBM Cognos Implementation Team
Our IT department uses their personnel as well as consultants to maintain the Cognos environment.
View full review »I implemented it myself with the help of a reseller. I had two other team members, one who was responsible for ETL generation and the other for the physical database and backup. We have one person who maintains the solution.
View full review »The deployment process of the product was taken care of by one of the in-house teams in my organization.
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March 2024
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We completed the deployment in-house.
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Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Architect
We have a team of two that did the maintenance and support of the solution. I did all of the maintenance and upkeep of the application and the upgrade and everything else.
Overall IBM Cognos is not maintenance heavy. Once you set it up properly, it runs close to maintenance-free.
View full review »We used support from the vendor for the implementation. It took approximately one and a half months for the process.
For some of the aspects of the solution requires maintenance. One of the features that we were using is the development of interactive and interdependent dashboards. For some reason, this dashboard used to fail when we would get out of the dashboard and close IBM Cognos and come back to IBM Cognos again. That required an upgrade on the application, which we did, but it was still not working. This issue required some maintenance to resolve.
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Asha Shankar Lakshumanan
DWH/Cognos Project Lead at Syntel Inc @ Mercedes Benz USA
In-house. I have implemented most of the solution specific to user requirements.. One of them is the automate cube build and deployment.
View full review »We implemented the solution using our in-house team.
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Susheel A
Director - Metrics & Analytics at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had someone who helped us set everything up and provide the required technical training.
View full review »We handled the implementation internally. We did not need any outside assistance from integrators or consultants.
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reviewer990360
Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did the implementation ourselves. We used the Azure platform to receive the data from an API and we send it up to IBM Cognos for the database.
For maintenance of the IBM Cognos service, we have one person using 12 days a year, for patching or the install of new releases.
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Hatem Bousrih
Director at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Implementation was done by an expert, we did not have any issues with the setup.
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Pavan Kumar Maddali
Senior Cognos Developer at ADP
in-house
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Barry Morris
BI Cognos Expert at Pilmark LTD
The amount of people needed to support the implementation depends on the customer. If it's a small business-sized customer with 10 to 20 users, I can do the implementation by myself. If it's a larger business then sometimes four, five people.
The maintenance can be very minimal because the data structure doesn't change. However, on the other hand, some customers have the requirements over time to change.
View full review »I have done both. The original implementation was done by a vendor team (before I was hired), and I have since performed two upgrades myself. The vendor team was capable, but they didn't understand our needs as completely as I have come to know them.
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In house
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It was a mix, the vendor usually has good skills on the subject. Support can be sometimes be disappointing.
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Bob Edis
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
An in-house team implemented it.
View full review »At that time I was implementing with the Cognos team and in-house. People from Cognos were very experienced.
View full review »As a consultant, the vast majority of my clients hire out the development team. A few times I've been brought on to provide additional temporary support or training.
View full review »Both of them according to the project. We rated their level of expertise with POC.
View full review »Implementation was done by an In-house team who learned from scratch.
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Barry Morris
BI Cognos Expert at Pilmark LTD
You need a consultant or an integrator for setup. You need somebody to do it. You can't just do it by yourself.
View full review »It had already been installed, and I got a lot of support from other people in the company. I have no experience with a vendor team.
View full review »We always implemented it through a vendor, but until now, we are more expert than they are.
View full review »It has always been in-house implementation.
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Bob Edis
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We used an IBM partner who were good.
View full review »Through a vendor. Very good expertise.
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In-house
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One day was needed to implement the product, and this was done by an experienced consultant from the vendor.
View full review »We used a vendor team. They talked a good game, but I would rate them at a 6/10.
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IBM Cognos
March 2024
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