Index › Vendors › IBM Cognos Analytics · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

IBM Cognos Analytics

13Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM Cognos Analytics was named 4 times in BI & dashboards, where Microsoft Power BI led with 62%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business21 of 56

under the label threshold

Mid-market73 of 73

under the label threshold

Enterprise45 of 61

under the label threshold

In bi & dashboards · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named IBM Cognos Analytics for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Dashboards and data visualization	GTM data and infrastructure	0%	73 of 73	100%	4	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Power BI at 62%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM Cognos Analytics yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated IBM Cognos Analytics across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Support for 11.2.4 and older ended April 30, 2026... No more security patches or bug fixes” DeepSeek V4 Flash · BI & dashboards · negative prompt · hard negative

“Why to avoid: Forced upgrades required to stay supported; Shrinking talent pool” Kimi K2 · BI & dashboards · negative prompt · hard negative

“Why to avoid: Complex setup, steep learning curve, high cost” Mistral Small · BI & dashboards · negative prompt · hard negative

“highlight complexity, expensive licensing, and outdated or heavy interfaces as common drawbacks” Perplexity Sonar · BI & dashboards · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM Cognos Analytics, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Cognos Analytics was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Power BI13 of 136Not in the top three

Tableau13 of 130Not in the top three

Domo11 of 130Not in the top three

Looker10 of 130Not in the top three

Metabase8 of 131Not in the top three

MicroStrategy8 of 130Not in the top three

Qlik Sense8 of 130Not in the top three

ThoughtSpot8 of 130Not in the top three

Sisense7 of 130Not in the top three

Zoho Analytics5 of 131Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named IBM Cognos Analytics. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 3 of the 13 answers that named IBM Cognos Analytics and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cio.com2

holistics.io2

improvado.io2

qlik.com2

reddit.com2

tellius.com2

toolradar.com2

bbs.unibo.it1

brosoftsystem.com1

business.udemy.com1

No domain is on file for IBM Cognos Analytics, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

qlik.com/us/business-intelligence/business-intelligence-tools2

tellius.com/resources/blog/best-business-intelligence-platforms-in-2026-13-platforms-compa2

toolradar.com/guides/best-business-intelligence-tools2

bbs.unibo.it/en/the-best-business-intelligence-tools-overview-pros-and-cons1

brosoftsystem.com/bi-showdown-microsoft-tableau-qlik-sense1

business.udemy.com/blog/top-business-intelligence-tools1

canvasintelligence.com/5-disadvantages-of-business-intelligence-and-how-to-avoid-them1

cio.com/article/222558/top-business-intelligence-bi-tools.html1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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