Suite de business intelligence
4.1/5 (103 avis)Cognos Software d'IBM est une famille de produits de business intelligence proposant des solutions sur mesure pour les entreprises de toutes tailles. Le logiciel associe des fonctionnalités de business intelligence standard telles que rapports, tableaux de bord, visualisation avancée de données, surveillance, analyse et prévision en temps réel à des fonctionnalités avancées telles que la gestion des cartes de performance et des stratégies, des outils de collaboration et des fonctions de planification et d'analyse financière. Vous pouvez également utiliser Cognos pour concevoir des flux de travail automatisés et des intégrations de données.
Cognos vous permet d'effectuer différents types d'analyses dont l'analyse des tendances, l'analyse des hypothèses et l'analyse prédictive. Vous pouvez créer des tableaux de bord interactifs dans Cognos avec des données en mouvement et des outils de collaboration tels que des commentaires et des annotations. Vous pouvez également créer des cartes de performance pour surveiller les performances, mesurer les indicateurs clés de performance par rapport aux objectifs de l'entreprise et développer une stratégie. La gamme de produits comprend également des solutions pour la gestion de la rémunération des ventes, l'automatisation des processus, la planification et la budgétisation.
Avantages
Compatibility mode queries allow for custom ODBC and JDBC connection to made, so even if there is no native compatibility other databases can still be used as a source if needed.
Dynamic Cubes are capable of querying against millions of rows in seconds when properly set up with sufficient hardware resources.
Standard Reports are snappy, returning data and rendering quickly, as long as the pagination is kept to reasonable quantities.
Inconvénients
Due to Active Reports packaging all of the data in the file and prerendering charts, file size can get quite large (easily several megabytes) and the initial load time can be quite long when opening it. It is best used for basic overviews and other times when some "flash" is needed, but not a large amount of data.
Configuring the interoperability with TM1 and SPSS is a little more on the technical side than most other tasks.
You could call the development process "Front heavy" meaning most of the development will be modeling. This means that it will take longer to end up with visualized data than other tools.
Overall, if there is a company that wishes to automate it's reports and improve efficiency across their organization, Cognos is a must-have tool. There is a bit of upfront cost involved to get the reports created in Cognos but the efficiency achieved is almost unparalleled.
Avantages
Cognos is an incredibly powerful reporting tool offered by IBM and it has a wonderful ability to be customized across different industries and companies. It can transform work efficiency but automating virtually any data that exists in a company's primary accounting and finance system.
Inconvénients
Cognos is not very user-friendly and often times it can take a while for an individual working with Congos to get familiar with the functionality and the power this tool possesses. Furthermore, report writing and query studio functionality require some database knowledge so the true power of the tool is sometimes limited by these factors.
Overall it is a great product to use
Avantages
Cognos Analytics is a flexible software for Standard Business Intelligence Reporting as well as for Self Service Data Visualization capability. You have the option to connect to a variety of the Data Sources as well as Multi-Dimensional Cubes. The new invention of Cognos Analytics software provides a greater flexibility for enterprise deployments and upgrades. It has the new feature of NLP (natural language processing) for predictive analytics by IBM Watson.
Inconvénients
Too many modelling tools (Cognos FrameWork Manager, Dynamic Cube Designer, Cognos Transformer) for modelling the content. Too many studios (Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio) for report development. Maintainence and cost is huge
TM1 allows you to build business models that display online results available to all authorized users of the organization.
Avantages
IBM Cognos TM1 facilitates the creation of business models with the participation and contribution of users throughout the organization regardless of their physical location.
TM1 is a enterprise-level platform that allows an integral, flexible, rigorous and perfect control over the users that contribute with the creation of the budget.
It allows building multidimensional models that incorporate the business rules that govern the financial processes of the company.
Inconvénients
IBM Cognos TM1 needs to train personnel to administer the platform.
The construction of the models requires specialized IT staff.
The cost of the licenses is for medium and large companies.
My company has been using IBM Cognos for the past 4 years. When we purchased IBM Cognos it was the best fit for our situation. It has been a valued piece of software in our business. It has given us the ability to tie data from multiple data sources. It has given the ability for our departments to run reports that we haven't been able to in the past.
Avantages
The software is very intuitive. If you have knowledge of SQL, it is a very easy software to pick up. The Help portion of the Cognos interface is very helpful also.
Inconvénients
Customer Support for this product isn't the best. We have been on Cognos 10.1.1 for a while and when it came up for licensing renewal, we were charged for a newer version of Data Manger. When we inquired about this through our support contract we were going to be charged for the new software.
Voici quelques-unes des questions fréquentes sur Cognos.
Types de licences disponibles pour Cognos :
version d'essai gratuite: Non disponible
Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur les fonctionnalités de Cognos.
Utilisateurs habituels du logiciel Cognos :
Grandes entreprises, Entreprises de taille moyenne, Administration publique, PME
Langues dans lesquelles Cognos est disponible :
anglais, français, allemand, espagnol
Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur les types de licences de Cognos.
Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur les appareils pris en charge par Cognos.
Applications s'intégrant à Cognos :
Captio Expenses, CommandCenterHD, Key Survey, Limelight, NetDispatcher, SAP Fieldglass, Workpuls, pcFinancials
Ressources d'aide disponibles pour Cognos :
Base de connaissances, Support en ligne, Support téléphonique
Cognos makes it easy to design reports that match the look-and-feel required by the client. Report rendering time is also very fast. Browser support can be touchy and Dynamic Cubes are very hardware intensive.Cognos has strong out of the box capabilities with a wide array of add-ons, and good interoperability with other IBM analytics and data suites