Updated February 21, 2020
Updated "Access to other data sources" links
Updated February 7, 2020
Updates to reflect the most recent version, 11.1.5
Update December 16, 2019
Added brief explanation of the authorized user and view authorized user licenses.
Update November 14, 2019
A few updates/additions since the last overhaul in October.
Update October 21, 2019
Long overdue, I have provided an update to the matrix highlighting the differences between the various offerings of IBM Cognos Analytics.
Original Introduction
There are three different offerings of IBM Cognos Analytics available today, as well as a trial version of the product. This is a big change from only a few years ago when we only sold an on-premises version of the product, or couple of years ago when we added our initial cloud offering.
What I hear a lot now as the offering manager for our cloud offerings is a request for an explanation of the difference between our different cloud offerings, as well as our on-premises offering. So, to coincide with the 11.1.1 release of IBM Cognos Analytics, (Feb/2029 - the latest version is now 11.1.5) I thought it was about time I wrote this up.
With the release of the 11.1.3 version of IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud, (Feb/2020 - again, latest version is 11.1.5) I thought the matrix of release functionality was due for an update, especially with the introduction of user tiers, a new trial, and support for accessing on-premises databases.
Below is a quick summary of our product offerings as of July 12, 2019 October 21, 2019 February 7, 2020.
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Product
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Descripton
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Version
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Notes
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Cognos Analytics
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On-premises offering
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11.1.5
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Long-term support version is 11.0.13
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|
Cognos Analytics Trial
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Cloud-based offering
|
11.1.5
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Updated to latest cloud version upon availability
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Cognos Analtyics on Cloud On-Demand
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Multi-tenanted hosted in the cloud
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11.1.5
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Updated to latest cloud version upon availability
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|
Cognos Analytics on Cloud Hosted
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Dedicated version hosted in the cloud
|
11.1.5
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Updates applied in consultation with the customer
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Version 11.1.5 should be available for the Dedicated offering very soon.
Hopefully this will help you decide which version of IBM Cognos Analytics is right for your department or organization. And be sure to visit the IBM Cognos Analytics community to learn about updates to our various offerings.
IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud now supports three different user tiers that can be assigned to different users within a single subscription. In the matrix below, features specific to a particular tier are identified as follows:
- S - Standard
- + - Plus
- P - Premium
Yes with no further qualification means the feature is applicable to all tiers.
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Offerings
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Features
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On-Premises
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CA Trial
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CA on Cloud
On-Demand
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CA on Cloud Hosted
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Portal
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
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Self-service modeling (data modules)
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
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Dashboards
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
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Stories
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
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Exploration10
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes (+, P)
|
Yes
|
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Reporting
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes (P)
|
Yes
|
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Scheduling
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes (P)
|
Yes
|
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Access to client tools (license dependent)9
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
|
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PowerPlay Studio1 (with existing license)
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Yes
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No
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No
|
No
|
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Analysis Studio1
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Yes
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No
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No
|
No
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Query Studio1
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
|
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Event Studio1
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
|
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Cognos Workspace
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
|
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Uploading files
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
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Uploading of fonts and images
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
|
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Customization (themes, extensions, palettes, views, parameters, custom visualizations)
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes7
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Yes
|
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Customization (user profiles)
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
|
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IBM Support
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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Access to on-premises data sources
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Yes
|
Yes5
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Yes6
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Yes
|
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Access to cloud data sources
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
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Access to PowerCubes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
|
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Access to Planning Analytics as a data source
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Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
|
Access to other data sources
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Link
|
Link
|
Link
|
Link
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Compatible Query Mode data sources
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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Dynamic Query Mode data sources
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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SDK
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Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
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Execution of triggers
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
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IBM ID authentication
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
|
On-premises or cloud-based authentication providers
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Single Sign On
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Yes2
|
No
|
No
|
Yes2
|
|
Report output to file system
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No3
|
|
Report bursting
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Access to the underlying file system
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
GO Sales database samples
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Samples based on uploaded files
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Multiple users per license
|
Yes
|
Yes4
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Per user pricing
|
Yes
|
n/a
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
PVU/capacity pricing
|
Yes
|
n/a
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Multiple environments (dev, prod)
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Long Term Support (LTS) release (11.0.13)
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Multi-dispatcher environments
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes3
|
|
Minimum number of users
|
n/a
|
1
|
1
|
100
|
|
Maximum number of users
|
n/a
|
5
|
n/a
|
n/a |
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Digital purchase
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Jupyter Notebooks
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Print from within Cognos Analytics
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Support for IBM Cognos Mobile
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Works with Motio CI
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
See footnote8
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|
Import/export of deployments
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
Audit extensions
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Dynamic Cubes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Save to cloud
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Legacy studios can only be explicitly enabled on-premises.
- Single sign on available via OIDC authentication providers which support this feature.
- Multi-dispatcher environments for IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud Hosted is limited to PROD environments.
- Burst to file system is currently available to 11.0.13 Dedicated customers only. Save to cloud is available to Cognos Analytics Hosted customers as of 11.1.5.
- The IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud trial supports up to 5 users.
- IBM Cognos Analytics Trial is limited to accessing 1 on-premises data source.
- IBM Cognos Analtyics on Cloud On-Demand is limited to accessing 10 on-premises data sources.
- Standard tier users can use custom visualizations published by other users. Plus tier users can do the same as Standard users and can also develop custom visualizations. Premium tier users can do the same as Plus users and can also upload visualizations for user by other users.
- Though IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud Hosted may work with Motio CI, IBM does not claim support for this configuration and it does not support the plug in that enables "Active Versioning" and "Authoring Integration."
- Client tools currently available for download are: Framework Manager and Transformer.
- Exploration is only available in versions 11.1.x and greater.
License terms for IBM Cognos Analytics on premises can be found
here and those for IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud (Hosted, On-Demand) can be found
here.
IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud is hosted in the following locations:
- Washington, DC
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Tokyo, Japan
- Sydney, Australia
IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud Dedicated is hosted in the following locations:
- Montreal, Canada
- Washington, DC
- Dallas, TX
- San Diego, CA
- London, England
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Tokyo, Japan
- Melbourne, Australia
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