# IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics is a business intelligence product from IBM for reporting, dashboards, visualizations, and data modules, with a mobile app and an AI Assistant. It can be run on-premises, as an IBM-hosted SaaS service, or through IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Its 12.1.3 release adds MCP support so Cognos can serve as governed tools for AI assistants.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/ibm-cognos-analytics · data of 2026-11-02

## Facts

- Company type: Division of IBM
- Deployment: On-premises, IBM-hosted cloud SaaS, and IBM Cloud Pak for Data

## Products

- IBM Cognos Analytics: Business intelligence platform with dashboards, visualizations, stories, reporting, data modules, a mobile app, and an AI Assistant.
- Cognos Analytics as a Service: Fully managed SaaS version on AWS where IBM handles infrastructure, upgrades, and maintenance.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Intelligence | 22 of 47 | 2.9 | 8 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 5.7 | 18.5% |
| google_ai_mode | 1.1 | 3.7% |
| perplexity | 1.9 | 7.4% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “IBM Cognos Analytics AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/ibm-cognos-analytics, data of 2026-11-02. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).