IBM Cognos Stability

Carlos Larrad Salgado

Deputy Director Operations Management Control at Mapfre

The performance is okay. Sometimes we have small interruptions and I suspect these are due to configuration changes, but I don't know for sure. Cognos was one of our first applications running and it's quite stable.

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Kumar Gurram

Senior Business Analyst at HSBC

The product’s stability is good.

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Gnanavel-Chakkarapani

Junior Consultant at CMA CGM

The tool's stability is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Mahmoud SAmi

Data & AI Solution Arch. at Alkan CIT Ethiopia

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

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Paulius Bistrickis

CFO at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is stable.

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reviewer2112948

Consultant at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a six out of ten.

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reviewer1803024

Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Architect

The performance of IBM Cognos is good. However, it is important that it is implemented correctly with the proper resources available. The person managing it has to have the skill sets to understand how to operate the application. It's very reliable for what it does.

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SusheelA

Director - Metrics & Analytics with 5,001-10,000 employees

The stability of IBM Cognos is excellent.

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Jay Bockstoce

Cognos BI Developer at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We encountered some minor issues. With Active Reports, we have a recurring HAL error that is being investigated by IBM at this time. It only affects 0.01% of our 1500+ outputs.

Other reporting tools such as Report Studio (standard reports), Event Studio, Workspace, and Workspace Advanced work well with no issues.

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LUKE FITZGIBBON

Resp offre IBM Cognos, Lyon at Talan

It is a stable product. I rate it an eight for stability.

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Lou Zunin

Managing Consultant at Adaptive USA

I have not experienced many issues in terms of stability. The product is fairly stable, especially if you are keeping up with the latest releases of upgrades and fix packs.

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SunnyDarediya

Sr. Data Warehouse Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Product stability-wise, I do find Cognos stable. We have faced some issues with memory in our client environments wherein if the client has created a custom report, it may not be optimized. In such cases, the memory gets utilized and the Cognos server goes down. A simple restart does resolve the issue, but that's still an issue if the client has a production server which is using Cognos. These kind of issues are among the biggest pain points we have. Other than that, Cognos has been fairly stable for us.

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FranciscoSosa Garcia

RPA Architect & RPA Product Owner at Francisco Sosa

It's a stable solution. It's very strong.

With Software Assessment Services, you can forget about the infrastructure. The servers and everything that is related to the typical deployment of the tool is easy because it's on the IBM Cloud.

Your focus your attention on using it instead of the technical side of things.

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Asha Shankar Lakshumanan

DWH/Cognos Project Lead at Syntel Inc @ Mercedes Benz USA

Cognos is extremely stable... Unless someone develops and tries to run a huge data set.. Its all about educating users.

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it_user123936

Sr Programmer Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

After going to a full distributed environment (Content Manager, App Server, Gateway), we have not encountered any stability issues.

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KARTHIKEYAN THANGARASU

Database Administrator at American Savings Bank

We have found this solution to be stable, but the products performance can be affected by the servers in use, if it is being hosted on-premises.

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Pietro Noli

Founder, Owner and CEO at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I sometimes encounter stability issues, but they’re rarely really issues.

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Susheel A

Director - Metrics & Analytics at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is very stable. We don't worry about bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash on us at all. It doesn't freeze. It's reliable.

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BIMan297500

‎Manager BI Manufacturing at a paper AND forest products with 10,001+ employees

The latest version is very stable. We have not had any problems.

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it_user551517

Sr Cognos BI Developer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

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it_user504054

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at Aspen Associates

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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Hardik Parashar

Associate Data Engineer at Digit Insurance

The stability is okay, however, sometimes we are not able to utilize all the features due to some performance issue.

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reviewer990360

Director at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability is good.

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reviewer1620732

Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

In terms of stability, I think that Cognos is more stable than Tableau and Power Bi because of its framework manager concept that allows us to import metadata and store it in the framework manager.

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it_user79140

Manager, Business Intelligence at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I encountered stability issues, but it was more a problem in version 8. Starting from version 10, the stability issues have significantly reduced.

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it_user5220

Senior Manager of IT at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user509850

Cognos Consultant at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues. It pretty much just runs every day. I reboot the report server maybe once every two months, but it is rarely ever necessary. This is one of the big selling points for me.

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it_user569925

Senior Cognos Analyst Developer at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

We did not encounter any specific stability issues. Like every product, you need to carry some sort of monthly maintenance to make sure that the platform runs smoothly.

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it_user514284

Sr Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user193824

Business System Analyst at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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Hatem Bousrih

Director at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

I think the solution is stable.

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it_user190104

Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues. The IBM Cognos platform has been around a while and with the right people doing the install/configuration/management of the environment, it is pretty rock solid. IBM is coming out with new minor releases every 2-3 months, which is great for customers as you can tell the commitment to excellence with the product is there.

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it_user897015

Developer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

It's a quite stable environment. I have used technical support with the 10.1 version of Cognos, but not with the latest version. Anything after 10.1, it has become a quite stable environment.

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Pavan Kumar Maddali

Senior Cognos Developer at ADP

In regards to stability, the performance aspect needs to have more enhancements.no

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it_user156465

Head of Business Analytics, Operations at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We encountered stability issues, but most likely related to our network and AD issues.

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it_user148620

Associate Director at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We have encountered stability issues; every so often, Cognos will hang and needs to be reset.

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Barry Morris

BI Cognos Expert at Pilmark LTD

IBM Cognos is highly stable. This is one of the largest values of the solution.

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it_user551511

Team Lead, BI and Analytics at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are on Linux, so we rarely have stability issues. We could run into resource issues, but that would be space or hardware related.

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it_user502383

Senior BI Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The product is stable, but we continue to find issues due to the product’s newness.

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it_user550095

Sr Cognos Developer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We sometimes have to restart the application.

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it_user416913

Group Reporting Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I encountered stability issues. As with all databases, space management on the server is important; all of our stability issues are related to database size and available space.

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it_user503625

Business Intelligence Manager at Mspark

The product is extremely stable. Unless someone develops and tries to run a "runaway" report, we rarely have any stability issues.

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it_user504744

Cognos Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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reviewer1196148

Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Cognos is stable, I've never experienced issues with its stability.

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reviewer1418973

Senior Technical Coordinator - IM and BI at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

We have been running the Cognos environment from 2013 onward. In that time, I have never seen a single instance of it going down. The small bugs come and go just like that. There have been a few small bugs, but never anything that was around for long. Even a product like Microsoft which has tremendous development resources is releasing monthly patches. Every product will have small issues.

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it_user534747

Cognos - BI Consultant / Tech Lead at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

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it_user453288

Project Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user835635

IT Manager Information Communication Technology with 501-1,000 employees

Very good. It's very reliable. Very stable. Gives us very little trouble.

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it_user73401

MIS & Development Manager at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user80244

Head of Data Analytics at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Yes, as with many 3-tiers applications you rely on a web server, an application server and a database, so for example- a huge load of connections can bring down the app server when using LifeCycleManager, a great tool for assistance in the upgrade process. View full review »

it_user547329

Cognos Developer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cognos is very stable, after tweaking server settings.

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it_user538227

Business Reporting Engineer (Contracter) with 10,001+ employees

We have never encountered any stability issues.

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Bob Edis

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I have encountered stability issues. I was able to crash the browser a couple of times (Firefox, recent version). I've tested the UI with Firefox (49 & ESR 45), MS 11, Chrome, and Edge (not supported), and all appear to work fine.

The longer I work on a report through the day, the slower the system responds.

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it_user544590

Cognos BI Architect/ Developer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Performance of the product is usually stable and only has issues when there are lots of users during heavy reporting periods.

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it_user98526

Consultant IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Server not responding some times

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it_user504741

IBM Cognos Instructor and Consultant at a tech company with 51-200 employees

There are no stability issues as long as the image is properly built and fix packs are installed.

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it_user165297

Cognos Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

The querying engine occasionally chokes on very large or complex datasets. Poorly designed meta-models can also cause trouble. Cognos will occasionally create dump files that can be larger than a gig each.

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it_user561699

Database application specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not had any stability issues. It is great software with great tools!

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it_user560289

Cognos Consultant (Contract) at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have had no issues at all with stability. Cognos is one of the most robust products out there.

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it_user544740

Senior Business Intelligence consultant, freelance at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

There have been no stability issues. If the installation was done properly, it is a stable system.

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it_user86730

Senior Development Manager - Innovation - ERP Protheus with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have encountered a few stability issues.

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it_user174690

BI Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Yes, It was the IBM Cognos mobile application server performance issue. We have to restart everyday.

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it_user171960

Assistant Manager - Technology at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Not much

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Barry Morris

BI Cognos Expert at Pilmark LTD

I think they're very stable.

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it_user267465

BI Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability of the Cognos Data Manager is quite good. It doesn’t crash very often, but of course making daily backups of your work is a wise thing to do, as with any tool.

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it_user505704

Senior Technical Consultant - Analytics at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user561858

BI Cognos Developer II at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not worked on the server side, so I can't comment about stability.

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it_user34830

Business Intelligence Specialist at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

We encountered some stability issues. Often application servers need to be recycled once a month. Unless report writers are writing very clean queries, database cache cleanups and server recycles are necessary.

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it_user142380

Managing Partner, Lead Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

Stability depends on many things, e.g., the quality of the Cognos model, the stability of the data source, the stability of the Cognos server environment, the stability of the network between the server and client application, the amount of data in the report/analysis, etc. Stability can be increased with a good initial setup and a thorough stability test of the Cognos BI environment. But it might happen that a user receives a strange and unidentifiable error message due to stability issues.

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it_user507990

Cognos & OBIEE Business Intelligence Consultant at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues. It’s very stable; more so than Oracle BI.

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it_user286518

Data Strategist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user250983

Bi Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I believe that Cognos is the most stable BI environment.

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it_user552825

Analytics Specialist at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user221220

Analyst in XBRL Projects at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Almost all the time, we have a problem with Cognos stability and even our maintenance vendor can’t do anything to resolve it.

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Artour Aslanian

BI Architect/Cognos Solution Architect/ETL Design Architect at a media company with 201-500 employees

Yes.

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it_user555990

IBM Cognos Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

I did not find any stability issues so far.

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it_user507993

Business Analytics Coach at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Stability has not been an issue with IBM Cognos Analytics – it is a very solid platform.

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it_user174678

Corporate BI Developer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Possibly but there could be multiple reasons for the environment being unstable especially on virtual servers.

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it_user551508

Continuous Auditing Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is not very user-friendly with unstructured or direct DB connected data.

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it_user259185

Prinicipal Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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Bob Edis

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user84468

Consultant

No.

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it_user549354

Cognos Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The overall stability of the product meets expectations.

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it_user185781

Solution Architect with 51-200 employees

Not once it is configured correctly.

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it_user73137

Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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it_user560208

Business Technology Associate Consultant at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees

No stability issues. The product is one of more stable reporting solutions.

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it_user505671

Senior Consultant - IBM SPM Cognos Solution Specialist at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user235326

Sales Specialist with 51-200 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user217470

Partner, CTO, CBIP, BI Solutions Arhitect with 11-50 employees

The product is very stable.

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it_user176946

BI Architect at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user823539

Sr. Director with 1-10 employees

Stability is good.

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it_user552831

Business Intelligence Specialist / Information - Business Analyst / Cognos BI Specialist at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Each product that I have worked with has bugs, and Cognos is no exception. There will be new releases that will fix these bugs.

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it_user164865

BI Expert at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

No, no problems were found.

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it_user544752

Business Intelligence Consultant at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user8061

Business Analytics Cognos Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have not encountered any stability issues.

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it_user191655

BI (Cognos) Developer at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

It is pretty stable, but bad queries can cause problems.

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it_user164019

Business Intelligence Analyst at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Rarely had issues with stability.

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it_user505653

Principal Consultant at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

When we have more than 1000 users logged in to the system, we can see slowdown in terms of performance.

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