IBM Cognos is a business intelligence and performance management platform that enables users to create reports, dashboards, and data visualizations for informed decision-making.
Introducing the Coalesce Catalog x IBM Cognos Integration
We’re excited to announce our new integration with IBM Cognos Analytics, bringing modern data discovery, documentation, and lineage to one of the most established BI platforms in the enterprise space. With this release, Coalesce Catalog empowers organizations to bring structure and transparency to their Cognos reporting environment.
IBM Cognos helps businesses turn data into insights through robust dashboards, reporting, and analytics capabilities. But in many enterprise settings, Cognos environments grow large and complex, filled with legacy reports, redundant dashboards, and undocumented logic that make it hard to know what to trust.
Coalesce Catalog brings clarity to that complexity. Our integration pulls metadata from Cognos and connects it to the broader data stack, enabling teams to find the right insights, understand how they were built, and ensure data is being used appropriately.
How does it work?
The integration connects to your Cognos environment to automatically ingest metadata from:
- Reports, dashboards, packages, queries, and data modules
- Fields and filters used within each report
- Usage and popularity data to identify trusted assets
- Lineage tracing back to sources like data warehouses, data lakes, or external files
All this information is made searchable and explorable within Coalesce Catalog, giving you full visibility from raw data to decision-ready dashboards.
Use Cases
Use-case #1
As a Finance Analyst, I want to find the most up-to-date “Revenue by Region” report and understand the source tables behind it, so I can confidently use it in board materials.
Use-case #2
As a Data Governance Officer, I want to see which Cognos dashboards contain customer PII and trace how that data flows from storage to consumption.
“Cognos has powered reporting for decades, but that history often comes with complexity. With this integration, we bring a modern layer of transparency to even the most mature BI environments.”
Arnaud de Turckheim, VP Product, Catalog at Coalesce
What’s in it for me?
With the Coalesce Catalog x IBM Cognos integration, organizations can:
- Discover and document Cognos reports and dashboards automatically
- Trace lineage from data sources to business reports
- Identify and retire unused or redundant assets
- Accelerate onboarding for analysts and business users by surfacing trusted reports
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“[I like] The easy to use interface and the speed of finding the relevant assets that you're looking for in your database. I also really enjoy the score given to each table, [which] lets you prioritize the results of your queries by how often certain data is used.” - Michal P., Head of Data
