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IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics is a business intelligence product for reporting, dashboards and data visualization with governed data · ibm.com ↗

#25Best rank (enterprise)
13/14Models named it
0First choices
12Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inFinancial reporting and dashboards #25 enterpriseB2B credit management #84Corporate performance management #83Financial consolidation #58

Why models recommend it

“Best enterprise traditional reporting: Cognos”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

“These are mature products but often rely on older technologies... support for legacy versions is waning.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“older deployments of IBM Cognos ... Why to be cautious”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as IBM Cognos Analytics, over the 29 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on IBM Cognos Analytics's own site, not checked by Gane.

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growing teams, scaling businesses and enterprise organizations making data-driven decisions at every level
Price stated
Standard Starting at $11.25 USD Per Authorized User*; Premium Starting at $44.90 USD Per Authorized User*
Starting price
11.25
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Customers named
ULMA, Elkjøp, UK Ministry of Defence, Mohegan Sun, Nukissiorfiit
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How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named IBM Cognos Analytics came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 22 of the 29 answers that named IBM Cognos Analytics and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

boldreports.com8
kanerika.com8
fanruan.com7
linkedin.com7
peerspot.com7
skyvia.com6
capterra.com5
learn.microsoft.com5
selecthub.com5
cio.com4

Sixty-two of the sixty-two domain citations in answers naming IBM Cognos Analytics came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on IBM Cognos Analytics across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00112
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000