

IBM Cognos Analytics is an AI-fueled business intelligence platform that supports the entire analytics cycle, from discovery to implementation. Visualise, analyse and share actionable insights about your data with anyone in your organisation.
Cognos Analytics uses AI to uncover patterns in your data you didn’t know were there, and natural language generation to communicate those insights to you.
Connect and combine your data effortlessly
Any data
Connect to a wide variety of different data sources or upload spreadsheets.
Connected insights
Your data is more powerful when it is connected. Cognos Analytics will help you auto-join multiple sources into a single trusted data module. The bigger the module, the deeper the insights.
Fast
Cleanse and combine your data sources in minutes with AI-assisted data prep, which makes recommendations on ways to join and blend your data. When you’re ready to explore and visualise, AI helps you create targeted dashboards.
Secure
Cognos Analytics has strong governance rules that scale, so nobody has access to data or assets they aren’t supposed to see, whether you’ve got one user or a thousand. And because it connects directly to your data, there’s less risk of data leakage or “bad” data contaminating your results.
Visualise your business performance, beautifully
Find meaning in your data
Understand your data with compelling, informative and interactive visualisations.
Beautiful. Simply.
Cognos Analytics Dashboards are beautiful. Take advantage of an extensive selection of visualisations, including embedded geospatial mapping and advanced analytics.
Communicate in plain language
The AI Assistant communicates in plain English. Ask questions about your data and receive recommended visualisations, insights and more in a format you can understand.
Built for ease of use
The system will automatically recommend the best visualisations based on the data you selected. You can also select your own from the library of different visualisations.
Dashboards that come alive
Take a deeper look
Investigate your data using Drill Down, Drill Ups and Drill Throughs.
Responsive
As you drill down, the whole Dashboard updates to match the slice of data you’re investigating.
Cognos Analytics makes teamwork simple
Collaboration has never been so easy. Everyone can ask answers and collaborate with the same data and everyone gets the same results. Break down silos and share dashboards and reports with anyone in your organisation with email or Slack. Generate reports in a wide variety of export formats. Keep stakeholders up to date with scheduled delivery.
Find hidden truths in your data
Key Drivers
Use Explore to find connections you didn’t even know to look for.
Quick insights
Each visualidation in Explore comes with AI-generated insights presented in plain language.
Understand and share the full story behind your data. Cognos Analytics combines the tools you need, from operational reporting to smart data discovery, and shares them with whomever you want, all in one place. Cognos Analytics conveniently integrates with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, but there’s no need for third-party add-ons, saving you time and money.