Why you should upgrade to IBM Cognos Analytics (11)

With businesses generating more data than ever before, organizations need to invest in business intelligence (BI) capabilities to help generate greater insights from their data, drive better business decisions, and identify new opportunities.

IBM Cognos Analytics is a self-service analytics platform that integrates cognitive computing technology, with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), originally developed for IBM Watson. Cognos Analytics is designed to learn the users' data using cognitive technologies and can generate recommendations for data joins and visualizations. It's intended as a one-stop-shop platform, providing analytics, dashboards, and data integration for reporting, exploration, and data modeling.

Cognos Analytics was first released in 2015 and was seen as a huge improvement over Cognos 10. Since then, there have been consistent releases and updates with the latest addition of new exciting features and fixes being its best version yet. Let's take a brief dive into why you should upgrade to IBM Cognos Analytics (11.1)

1. Visualize your Business

Create beautiful dashboards and reports with AI recommendations
Interactive dashboards and compelling reports in a single tool
Discover superior visualizations for your data with AI
Overlay your data on the physical world with geospatial capabilities

2. 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
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

3. Share critical insights easily

Break down the silos. Share dashboards and reports 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

4. Clean and Combine Data

Save time with automated data preparation
Cleanse and combine your data sources in minutes with AI-assisted data preparation
Import data from spreadsheets, CSV files, cloud or on-premises databases
Use machine learning (ML) 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

5. Protect your data

With strong governance rules that scale, you can control who has access to sensitive information, and who doesn't
Empower your users while maintaining both data and analytics governance
Marrying IT and Business together under one platform
Understand where the data came from, how it's being presented, and how to make decisions based on what you see

6. Start small, grow big, on any budget

Mix and match capabilities for users without blowing your budget – and with no minimum of user count
Multiple deployment options available:
Cloud Edition - A low-cost cloud service with all the features of Cognos Analytics
Enterprise Solution - A dedicated service with the power to meet your critical performance needs

7. Kinetek makes the implementation or migration stress-free

Kinetek has a proven track record of service in providing seamless and quick implementations to Cognos Analytics
Our consulting experts have helped our clients reach their goals, requirements, and challenges while providing services that exceed expectations

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