IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson
What is IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson?
IBM Cognos Analytics offers smarter, self-service capabilities so you can quickly and confidently identify and act on insight. The engaging experience empowers business users to create and personalize dashboards and reports on their own - while providing IT with a proven and scalable solution that is available on-premises or in the cloud.
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85 Likeliness to Recommend
95 Plan to Renew
81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+88 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Fair
Feature Ratings
Dashboard
Spatial Analysis
Data Exploration and Visualization
Real-Time Visualization
BI Platform Administration
BI Security
Data Modelling Tools
Advanced Analytics and Data Science
Operational Reporting Capabilities
Collaboration
Data Connectors and Data Mashup
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
Breadth of Features
Ease of Customization
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Usability and Intuitiveness
Quality of Features
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson Reviews

Hosam K.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2023
Efficient Analytical Solution.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson from other similar products?
IBM Cognos integrates seamlessly with other IBM products, such as IBM Watson, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, and IBM Planning Analytics. Also, the service provides a wide range of deployment options with enterprise-grade scalability.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
IBM Cognos Analytics is user-friendly, efficient, flexible, scalable, and secure. The service has various AI capabilities, advanced analytics features, and natural language processing accuracy that support deeper insights and better data-driven decisions.
What do you dislike most about this product?
IBM Cognos Analytics can be complex for users with no experience in business intelligence tools and has limited integration with third-party services. Also, the pricing can be a barrier for some businesses.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It would be great to start by understanding the basics of business intelligence and the IBM Cognos analytics suite and its built-in AI features and best practices, then apply your knowledge to simple projects.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Hemanshi M.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2023
Fantastic product! Easy to learn
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson from other similar products?
IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson stands out from other similar products due to its powerful integration of AI capabilities, advanced analytics, and natural language processing, enabling users to gain deeper insights and make data-driven decisions with greater ease and efficiency.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The advanced AI-powered analytics and natural language processing capabilities are my favorite aspects of IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson.
What do you dislike most about this product?
While IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson offers robust features, I occasionally find the learning curve for more complex functionalities to be challenging.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For someone considering IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson, my recommendations would be to invest time in learning the product's advanced features, leverage the AI capabilities for deeper insights, and explore the extensive support and resources provided by IBM to maximize the value and potential of the tool.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity

Karan B.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2023
Complex to understand
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson from other similar products?
The cognitive features are the best as the power of AI can be used to train and visualize the prediction of the trend in the data. Apart from that the capacity of scalability is very good as large volumes of data can be handled easily and user-access control security features make it stand out.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
As a Data Analyst, my favorite aspect is the data visualization capacity. It has more visuals and color theme selection options. Also, the story telling via dashboards is easy and effective.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It is a bit complex product as there are many features available but the learning curve is very steep. It takes a lot of time to understand how to use different features. Initial Data transformation steps are very tricky to do in this software as compared to others like cleaning and wrangling of data.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Kindly do a handful of training and practice a couple of projects before using it in production.
Pros
- Respectful
- Transparent
- Friendly Negotiation
- Appreciates Incumbent Status