Enterprise BI has always carried a quiet weight. Finance teams rely on it to close the books while operations teams use it to track performance. Executives use it to make decisions that need consistent numbers, not competing versions of the truth. That trust is hard-won, and it matters.

But something is shifting. The next wave of BI is not just prettier dashboards or faster reports. It is agentic analytics where AI helps users explore data, understand what matters, create new analysis, and move from insight to action with less friction. And it is fully managed delivery, where your team focuses on business outcomes instead of platform operations.

Today, we are introducing IBM Cognos Analytics as a Service on AWS: trusted enterprise BI, combined with BI agents and a fully managed SaaS experience on AWS.

BI agents that actually change your daily rhythm

The most important shift is not that Cognos now has AI features. It is that BI agents can reduce the distance between a business question and a trusted answer. Large report libraries are genuinely hard to navigate. You know the answer exists somewhere but finding it, interpreting it, and acting on it takes real effort. BI agents change that. For report users, the Summarization Agent turns complex, multi-page reports into faster understanding, especially valuable when new team members need context quickly or when you are reviewing something outside your usual domain.

For report authors, the Authoring Agent helps you get past the blank page. Describe what you need conversationally, get a first draft, refine from there. Less time building, more time improving. For business users, natural language exploration makes trusted data easier to work with without needing to know the underlying tables, fields, or reporting structures. Ask a question and get a governed answer. And the story goes beyond reports with Cognos extending Agentic BI into data exploration, natural-language querying, and more automated ways of working with trusted data. The practical result: less effort, faster understanding, more governed paths from question to action.

A fully managed service that changes the operating model

AI becomes more useful when the platform is easier to run, with Cognos Analytics as a Service on AWS, IBM manages the infrastructure, upgrades, maintenance, and service operations while you keep the full Cognos experience across reporting, dashboards, visualizations, data modelling, and targeted report distribution. For teams already building around AWS, the offering is AWS native and available through AWS Marketplace. Cognos BI agents connect with Amazon Bedrock while keeping analytics grounded in governed Cognos content, security permissions, and your existing business context. This matters whether you are an existing Cognos customer or new to the platform. Existing customers can modernize trusted BI without starting over. New clients can build enterprise analytics on AWS from day one, with governance and BI agents embedded in the foundation from the start.

What actually changes

When agentic analytics and a fully managed platform come together, the shift is practical and real:

• Business users find trusted answers faster, without needing to understand the platform underneath.

• Report authors spend less time on blank page work and more time on analysis that matters.

• BI teams shift attention from platform maintenance toward governance, enablement, and higher value analytics.

• IT teams reduce operational overhead with upgrades, capacity, security reviews by shifting that work to IBM.

• Executives get AI-assisted analytics that is still governed, consistent, and trustworthy.

Trust is the differentiator

The future of enterprise BI will not be decided by which platform adds AI fastest. It will be decided by which platform uses AI in a way that keeps analysis trusted, consistent, and governed. That is the bet we are making with Cognos Analytics as a Service on AWS. Bring your BI into the agentic era without sacrificing the governance and consistency that make enterprise analytics worth having.

Speed and trust, together. That is what this is built for.

Speak to an IBM representative to learn more about Cognos Analytics as a Service on AWS.

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