What is IBM Cognos Analytics?
Cognos Analytics is an AI-fueled business intelligence platform that supports the entire analytics cycle, from discovery to operationalization.
Visualize, analyze and share actionable insights about your data with anyone in your organization.
Smarter business intelligence
- Visualize your business performance: Create beautiful dashboards and reports with AI recommendations
- Let AI help you uncover the patterns hidden in your data: Cognos Analytics doesn’t just show you a bar chart — it interprets the data for you, and presents actionable insights in plain language
- Share critical insights easily: Break down the silos. Share dashboards and reports with anyone in your organization
- Save time with automated data preparation: Cleanse and combine your data sources in minutes with AI-assisted data preparation
- Protect your data: With strong governance rules that scale, you can control who has access to sensitive information, and who doesn’t
- Start small, grow big, on any budget: Mix and match capabilities for users without blowing your budget — and with no minimum user count
Visualize your business performance
- Craft beautiful, interactive dashboards and compelling reports in a single tool
- Discover superior visualizations for your data with AI recommendations
- Overlay your data on the physical world with geospatial capabilities
Uncover the patterns hidden in your data
- Cognos Analytics doesn’t just show you a bar chart — it interprets the data for you with AI.
- Business users can ask a question in plain language, and receive an actionable answer – no matter the question.
- Analysts can use these insights to dive deeper into the data
Collaborate with anyone in your organization
- Cognos Analytics connects to your data in the cloud (or on-prem), so that all of your users access the same data.
- Everyone gets the same answers
- Capture, annotate and share visuals over email or Slack
Clean and combine data in minutes
- Import data from spreadsheets, CSV files, cloud or on-premises databases
- Use machine learning to automatically discover and combine related data sources into a single, trusted data module
- Add new columns to your data; perform calculations; split, reorder and hide columns
With Cognos Analytics on Cloud you can purchase any number of Standard, Plus and Premium seats
Standard
- Create beautiful dashboards and stories.
- Become an agent of change in your organization.
Plus
- Standard capabilities +
- Unearth hidden insights and act to remove bias from your data.
- Use augmented-intelligence and visual-exploration tools.
Premium
- Plus capabilities +
- Create pixel-perfect, interactive reports.
- Share the details that underlie your data.