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IBM Cognos Analytics: A Comprehensive Guide

Cognos analytics is the next generation of reporting; AI-powered insights and interactive visualisations help to transform that scary mountain of data you’ve been sitting on into a goldmine.

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What is IBM Cognos Analytics?

IBM Cognos Analytics is a truly scalable business intelligence solution; in essence its all about providing easy ways for you to get the insights that you need. Its reporting and analysis done your way.

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Key features

IBM cognos analytics is packed full of tools designed to make your life easier. We would be here all day if we listed all of its features, so here are a few of the heavy hitters:

Self-service analytics – give your users their own AI assistant that makes it easy for anyone to just ask a question and receiving data, visualisations and even dashboards on demand.
AI-enhanced insights – dynamic dashboards and interactive visualisations are accompanied by AI-powered forecasting tools – letting you find previously hidden trends, risks and opportunities.
Enterprise Grade Governance – data is the lifeblood of your business; with centralised management and advanced security that can scale as your business grows your data will be secure and organised.

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Benefits of Using Cognos Analytics

The IBM cognos analytics isn’t just about charts and tables; it can really change how you understand your business and your ability to make decisions. To make life easy, we’ll list out our top few benefits as bullet points because we know you’re busy and we want to make this as easy as possible to digest.

Save time with automation #efficiency
Improve your accuracy – with all your data in one place, you’ll reduce errors and make your reporting consistent.
Make better decisions – no more late nights, you’ll get insights you trust at the drop of the hat.
Scalability – going from 5 to 15 in a year, no problem, the system can scale with you.

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The Different Licences

There are a few different scenarios for how you can use the system, depending on if you want to host anything, if it will sit entirely with IBM or a mix of the two.

On-premises

Hosted on site, on your servers, so you have total and complete control of the system.

Cloud

IBM takes care of the hosting, storage, and maintenance on their servers. You just log in and get to work – no hardware, no hassle, just access anywhere, anytime.