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Firdous Shamsudeen on 22 Dec 2014 16:48:09

Cognos also supports plenty of reports. It would be great if we could export the Cognos data to this dashboard.

Administrator on 23 Dec 2014 03:59:34

Great suggestion. Anyone else using Cognos and need to bring their reports into Power BI? If you are, please add your vote!

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Julio Cesar Lima on 05 Jul 2020 22:45:35

RE: Cognos

It would be nice to replace Cognos Reports with Power BI, if somehow we could generated formatted excels as an option so users (BI consumers only, not power users) could download a standardized report, not just raw plain data as we have today.

I think we can combine the basic reporting capabilities of Cognos into Power BI allowing us to eliminated unnecessary infrastructure. Today, we are using Cognos mainly for formatted reporting.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:43:50

RE: Cognos

Yes, it will help with a lot of our needs.

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Martin on 05 Jul 2020 22:42:55

RE: Cognos

Getting the primarary metadata -tables, fields, filters, (multiple key) relations in design language to start with- from a Cognos Framework into a power bi model would be my first priority here, i would rather get rid of Cognos instead of using two BI tools.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:42:51

RE: Cognos

Would be nice to see Cognos TM1 Cubes on PowerBI

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RM on 05 Jul 2020 22:42:35

RE: Cognos

Direct connect to Cognos Semantic layer would be a huge plus.

Add my vote.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:41:17

RE: Cognos

I'll add our vote.

We have cognos in use and want to enhance our portfolio with Power BI.
A direct connection to the Cognos Layer would help us much.
As I see attemps from competitive tools (e.g. Tableau) to provide such a connection. I agree that it would help to spread Power BI more in small-mid companies.

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Tim Wadman on 05 Jul 2020 22:40:21

RE: Cognos

I'll add our vote.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:24

RE: Cognos

We have cliens who wants to do the planning and forecasting in TM1 but the presentation in PowerBI. You have my vote.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:53

RE: Cognos

Hi folks - actually, I'm not real happy with our Cognos Reporting tool; particularly the needed move to the completely new CA 11.x. Have not had time to really research this tool (Power BI), but am wondering about the degree to which it might actually be a replacement for our entire Cognos investment... hence the reason I looked here; can Cognos Reports be imported, consumed somehow; by Power BI. Thanks.

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Dan on 05 Jul 2020 22:27:28

RE: Cognos

We have a heavy investment in Cognos, but Report Studio and Query Studio don't offer the user-friendly interface or visualization capabilities of Power BI. Power BI doesn't offer built-in governance and as an organization we don't have the know-how or the resources to acquire the know-how for building out our semantic layers using SSAS. We would benefit heavily from using Power BI against the Cognos Semantic layer.