Unlock your data’s full potential with next-gen BI reporting, AI-powered insights and interactive visualizations
Governed BI for every decision
IBM Cognos Analytics delivers compliance ready reporting and AI-powered dashboards built on certified data models. With centralized governance, audit trails and fine-grained access controls, it ensures secure, trusted insights across cloud, on prem or hybrid deployments.
Features
Discover the full feature set of Cognos Analytics that helps you transform your data into actionable insights with AI, dashboards and reporting.
- What's new
- Reporting
- Visualizations
- Governance
- AI capabilities
See what's new in IBM Cognos Analytics 12.1.2
Cognos 12.1.2 introduces agentic AI capabilities with the first set of Reporting Agents, transforming reporting from manual, human-driven workflows to intelligent, autonomous execution while accelerating insight delivery and maintaining enterprise-grade governance.
Embedded directly in Cognos Analytics and accessed through the existing AI Assistant, these agents are now available to all premium SaaS and on-prem customers.
High-quality, high-scale business reporting
Create and share clear, customized reports tailored to your needs. Enjoy fast and efficient handling of large data from many sources as your business grows.
Collaborate seamlessly with your team and make smarter decisions faster.
Interactive data visualizations with AI-enhanced insights
Explore your data with dynamic dashboards, interactive visualizations and AI-powered forecasting tools. Uncover hidden trends and future possibilities, no advanced skills needed.
Gain valuable insights and focus on what matters most to your business.
Enterprise-grade governance, security and scalability
Keep your data secure and organized with centralized management and advanced security, improving the quality of your data and reporting.
Easily scale your business intelligence as your company grows, with simple pricing and flexible deployment options, from single-user setups to large-scale deployments.
Self-service analytics with natural language AI
Empower your users with self-service analytics tools that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver actionable insights, simplify data exploration and preparation.
The AI Assistant available in IBM Cognos Analytics answers users' questions about their data in natural language, generating visualizations and dashboards on demand.
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Case studies
From accelerating reporting to driving revenue and simplifying systems, explore how IBM Cognos Analytics delivers measurable impact for businesses worldwide.
ULMA speeds up reporting with accurate automation
86%
faster and more accurate reporting
Elkjøp boosts performance through real-time data
9%
increase in total sales revenue
UK MoD boosts efficiency by breaking data silos
4
legacy platforms replaced by one
Mohegan Sun improves service with near real-time
~1 hour
saved per day per supervisor
More deployment options
Rapidly deploy and scale on a dedicated cloud environment hosted by IBM. Eliminate hardware management and align with your existing cloud strategy.
Maintain full control over your data and infrastructure with an install based deployment. Ideal for businesses prioritizing data security and internal IT management.
Leverage IBM's Cloud Pak for Data to deploy a containerized version on your preferred cloud environment — including IBM Cloud, Azure, AWS, GCP and others.
Run fully containerized Cognos Analytics on any cloud or on-prem environment. Get the flexibility, scalability and savings you need—with full Kubernetes support.
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