Question

List down Disadvantages of Cognos?

Answer 1

Here are cons/drawbacks of using Cognos

• Cognos Bi has also not been accepted very eagerly in departmental or divisional deployments.
• No support for any Multi-dimensional analysis.

Summary

• IBM’s Cognos BI is a web-based reporting and analytics tool
• IBM Cognos analytics software was founded in 1969 by Alan Rushforth and Peter Glenister.
• Cognos BI offers real-time events, alerts, and notifications.
• Cognos connection is a web portal that allows users to access Cognos 10 and studios
• Cognos Business Insight offers allows users can create their dashboard using any object.
• Cognos Analysis Studio helps business users get fast answers to business-related queries.
• Reporting studio allows you to create pixel-perfect reports for your organization.
• Cognos event studio allows you to assign a specific event that sends a notification to the stakeholder in your organization.
• Cognos Metric Studio allows you to monitor and analyze business metrics of your organization by building a scorecard environment.
• Important types of Cognos tools are 1) Content store 2) Content manager 3) Content database.
• Other major Important BI vendors are Business Objects, Microsoft – SSRS/SSIS/SSAS, MicroStrategy, OBIEE, QlikView, and SAS.
• The major advantage of Cognos BI is that it offers various BI capabilities like query and reporting, analysis, and score carding using single architecture.