IBM Cognos
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. IBM Cognos has 6.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“IBM Cognos has received significant criticism for being difficult to use, buggy, and causing user frustration.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“a slew of technical horror stories about the installation and deployment of traditional business intelligence software like IBM Cognos”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Be cautious with very old or legacy tools (e.g., SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Often require significant IT resources, high costs, and lengthy implementation.”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as IBM Cognos, over the 20 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 5 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 4 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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 17 of the 20 answers that named IBM Cognos and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for IBM Cognos, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |