IBM Cognos Room for Improvement

Carlos Larrad Salgado - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Director Operations Management Control at Mapfre

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.

The user experience is also very important. Cognos is not very easy to understand sometimes, especially when they change the layout but keep the functionality the same. The help is not very graphic and they have no examples. Cognos has to make a big effort to help with understanding the functionality by improving the documentation. There is a lot of documentation, but the examples are hard to find and they should make their help section easier to understand for non-technical users.

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Paulius Bistrickis - PeerSpot reviewer
CFO at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We started working with Power BI, which we feel will be number one in a couple of years. Even though it still has some improvement, it's a promising tool. All BI tools have similar issues to IBM Cognos.

Regarding additional features, it would be good if the solution had conditional formatting similar to Excel, where you can conditionally format based on colour. For example, colour scales like green, yellow, and red make it easier to categorize tables, rows or columns by colour. Unfortunately, this feature does not exist in any BI tool.

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SalmanAhmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of ERP Applications at Patel Hospital

Data modeling needs to be improved. We use the ETL process, and when we get errors, we then need to identify which structural change is required. The error messaging should be better. They should be descriptive rather than semantic.

IBM should provide more support for Cognos development. It is quite limited in Pakistan.

In the next release, I would like to have a mobile app for Cognos. For instance, Power BI has a mobile app for their solution, and I would like Cognos to do the same.

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Mahmoud SAmi - PeerSpot reviewer
Data & AI Solution Arch. at Alkan CIT Ethiopia

Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the product.

The UI of the product needs to be similar to the one offered by Power BI, which has the most market share presently.

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MM
Lead Technical Consultant at Perficient

There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data. In the next release, Cognos should include artificial intelligence features.

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KARTHIKEYAN THANGARASU - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at American Savings Bank

We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required.

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RG
Head of Data Architecture at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information. IBM Cognos could be improved with some analytical solutions that could help us make predictions.

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LF
Resp offre IBM Cognos, Lyon at Talan

The solution's support needs improvement. Also, they should add better administrative tools.

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Ahmed Ashmawy - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Practice Lead at Hyve Technology Consulting

The solution could have more options for themes in terms of creating reports. Also, its drill-down feature needs improvement. In addition, they should include features for visualization in the next release.

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DA
Advisor at DCM infotech

The technical support team’s response time is slow and needs to be improved.

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WY
Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool.

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IBM Cognos
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