IBM Cognos Analytics offers flexible pricing for either individual users or your entire enterprise

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On-premises
Maintain full control over your data and infrastructure with an install based deployment. Ideal for businesses prioritizing data security and internal IT management.
On-cloud hosted
Rapidly deploy and scale on a dedicated cloud environment hosted by IBM. Eliminate hardware management and align with your existing cloud strategy.
Certified containers
Run fully containerized Cognos Analytics on any cloud or on-prem environment. Get the flexibility, scalability and savings you need—with full Kubernetes support.
IBM Cloud Pak for Data
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.
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On-premises On-cloud hosted On-cloud on demand Certified containers

Analyze and discover

Interactive reporting and data analysis

Available for Premium

Visual dashboards creation

AI-powered insights and discovery

Compatible with Framework Manager 

Share and collaborate

Report scheduling

Available for Premium

Report bursting (bulk distribution) 

Save report output to File System

Cognos Analytics mobile app

Customization–themes, extensions, palettes

Available for Premium

Govern and extend

Connect to on-prem data servers

Via Satellite Connectors Via Satellite Connectors

Enterprise security and Single Sign-On (SSO)

IBMid

Custom Java authentication

Centralized platform administration

Limited

Supports CQM/DQM queries

Only DQM Only DQM

Cognos SDK and Rest API

Platform usage and audit tracking

Manage tenants

*Prices shown are per month, are indicative, may vary by country, exclude any applicable taxes and duties and are subject to product offering availability in a locale.

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