What is IBM Cognos Analytics?

Cognos Analytics is an AI-fueled business intelligence platform that supports the entire analytics cycle, from discovery to operationalization.

Visualize, analyze and share actionable insights about your data with anyone in your organization.

Deploy where and when you need it with support for multicloud environments – public, private, on premise, and on IBM Cloud Pak™ for Data

Smarter business intelligence

Visualize your business performance

Create beautiful dashboards and reports with AI recommendations

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

Share critical insights easily

Break down the silos. Share dashboards and reports with anyone in your organization

Save time with automated data preparation

Cleanse and combine your data sources in minutes with AI-assisted data preparation

Protect your data

With strong governance rules that scale, you can control who has access to sensitive information, and who doesn't

Start small, grow big, on any budget

Mix and match capabilities for users without blowing your budget — and with no minimum user count

Woman looking at a computer screen that displays the dashboard

Trusted COVID-19 data for communities

IBM released a new, global interactive dashboard built on IBM Cognos Analytics to show the spread of COVID-19 across the world. The general public, researchers, data scientists, and media, can utilize this dashboard to conduct deeper analysis and filtering of regional data.

The COVID-19 data reflected in this dashboard is pulled from state and local governments and the World Health Organization.

Explore the dashboard →

Learn why so many organizations trust Cognos Analytics.

Ecco Ireland logo
FleetPride logo
Wimbledon 2018 logo

Visualize your business performance

  • Craft beautiful, interactive dashboards and compelling reports in a single tool
  • Discover superior visualizations for your data with AI recommendations

  • Overlay your data on the physical world with geospatial capabilities

Uncover the patterns hidden in your data

  • Cognos Analytics doesn’t just show you a bar chart — it interprets the data for you with AI.
  • 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

Rear shot of man sitting at desktop computer that's displaying graph and map

Collaborate 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

Clean and combine data in minutes

  • Import data from spreadsheets, CSV files, cloud or on-premises databases
  • Use machine learning 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

Professional male hand on laptop computer displaying flowchart and another hand taking notes

Which deployment option is right for you?

Cloud Edition

A low-cost cloud service with all the features of Cognos Analytics. Starting at USD 15 per month.

Enterprise Edition

A dedicated service with the power to meet your critical performance needs

Resources

Interactive demo: self service BI

Learn how Cognos Analytics can help you make better business decisions, faster, no matter the size of your business, in this interactive demo.

Start now

O’Reilly Report: The power of AI-infused business intelligence

With deep insights from subject matter experts, this report dives into how AI improves BI, how to drive AI adoption, and what the future of AI in BI will look like.

Read the report

Related products

IBM Planning Analytics

Automate planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes. Go beyond spreadsheets to improve efficiency and help eliminate manual tasks.

IBM Watson™ Studio

Build and train models at scale in a collaborative, all-in-one environment. Operationalize data science with enhanced visual modeling and automated deep learning.

Decision optimization

Solve complex optimization problems with a prescriptive analytics solution. Create optimization models using general programming language APIs or Open Programming Language (OPL) to solve the breadth of optimization models.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

A flexible multicloud data platform that integrates all your data, on premises or from any cloud, while keeping it secure at its source. Collect, organize, analyze and govern data with AI.

Expert resources to help you succeed

Knowledge Center

Find technical documentation and support for versions of Cognos Analytics.

Community

Join the conversation, get answers and share expertise with your peers and IBM experts.

Support

Contact us for all your support needs.

Free 30-day trial

Start trial