# IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

*/Products/IBM_Cognos_Business_Intelligence*

Business intelligence and data analysis software

## Product Bo M

**Summary**: The reporting, dashboarding, and analysis edition of the Cognos platform (Cognos BI) that authors and distributes managed reports and self-service queries over governed data. As a pure-software product it has no physical bill-of-materials.
**Physical Good**: false

## Neighborhood

### Parent

- [Business intelligence and data analysis software](/Products/Business_intelligence_and_data_analysis_software) — parent · Products

### Siblings

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### Who uses this

- [Sales Engineers](/Occupations/Sales_Engineers) — uses · Occupations
- [Technical Writers](/Occupations/Technical_Writers) — uses · Occupations
- [Financial Specialists, All Other](/Occupations/Financial_Specialists,_All_Other) — uses · Occupations
- [Budget Analysts](/Occupations/Budget_Analysts) — uses · Occupations

### Problems this exposes

- [Framework Manager metadata models rot as source schemas drift](/Problems/Framework_Manager_metadata_models_rot_as_source_schemas_drift) — exposes problem · Problems
- [broken drill-through links after dimension restructures](/Problems/broken_drill-through_links_after_dimension_restructures) — exposes problem · Problems
- [costly migration path from legacy BI to Cognos Analytics](/Problems/costly_migration_path_from_legacy_BI_to_Cognos_Analytics) — exposes problem · Problems
- [per-PVU licensing cost hard to attribute to actual report usage](/Problems/per-PVU_licensing_cost_hard_to_attribute_to_actual_report_usage) — exposes problem · Problems
- [report sprawl with no lineage from a measure back to its source table](/Problems/report_sprawl_with_no_lineage_from_a_measure_back_to_its_source_table) — exposes problem · Problems
- [slow PowerCube build/refresh windows starve morning reports](/Problems/slow_PowerCube_build%2Frefresh_windows_starve_morning_reports) — exposes problem · Problems