Cognos Analytics vs Toucan

• Enhanced Decision Making: Cognos Analytics synthesizes data from various sources, providing comprehensive insights that empower users to make informed, data-driven decisions.
• Time Efficiency: Automates the process of data collection and report generation, significantly reducing the time spent on these tasks and allowing teams to focus on analysis and strategy.
• Customizable Dashboards: Offers the flexibility to create personalized dashboards that highlight key metrics, making it easier for users to access the information most relevant to their roles and objectives.
• Scalability: Adapts to the growing data needs of a business, ensuring that as your company expands, Cognos Analytics can handle the increasing volume and complexity of data.
• Data Accuracy: Minimizes human error by automating data collection and analysis, leading to more accurate insights and reducing the risk of costly mistakes.
• Collaboration Enhancement: Facilitates better teamwork by providing a shared platform where team members can access, analyze, and discuss data insights in real-time.
• Advanced Analytics: Utilizes AI and machine learning to uncover deep insights, predict trends, and identify patterns that might not be apparent through traditional analysis methods.
• Comprehensive Reporting: Generates detailed reports that can be customized to suit different audiences, ensuring stakeholders receive the information they need in an understandable format.
• Mobile Accessibility: Offers mobile support that allows users to access data and insights on the go, ensuring decision-makers are always informed, regardless of their location.
• Regulatory Compliance: Helps ensure that data management practices comply with relevant regulations and standards, reducing the risk of legal issues and fines.
• Cost Reduction: By streamlining data analysis processes and reducing the need for manual intervention, Cognos Analytics can lead to significant cost savings over time.
• Improved Customer Insights: Analyzes customer data to provide a deeper understanding of customer behavior and preferences, enabling more targeted and effective marketing strategies.
• Operational Efficiency: Identifies bottlenecks and inefficiencies in operations, allowing organizations to optimize processes for better performance and productivity.
• Future-Proofing: Continuously updates to incorporate the latest technologies and analytics trends, ensuring that businesses remain competitive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Platform

• Centralize Business Data: Helps teams get on the same page by creating a single source of truth. Connects to the cloud, on-premise databases, spreadsheets and more to collect all of an organization’s data into one centralized hub.
• Speed Up Queries: Optimize data processing by minimizing queries through cache engines and custom indexes that accelerate webpage performance.
• Automated Reporting: Takes the heavy-duty work of development, design and maintenance out of data analytics with automatically updated data and scheduled reports. 
• Ease of Use: Explore and understand business insights through an intuitive UI – without requiring training, tutorials or coding experience. Caters to people who may not have the technical knowledge or programming skills to handle a more complicated BI tool.
• Accelerate Adoption: Educates and guides teams on how to create compelling data stories. Encourage autonomous, skilled data analysis with self-learning tools such as a glossary and contextual tips that help in data comprehension.
• Improve Data Literacy: Makes information accessible by displaying it visually, enabling transparency across departments and empowering all stakeholders to take BI into their own hands.
• Made for Collaboration: Interact with other teams and share power in decision-making through workspaces. Improve communication between departments and help them align with each other by annotating, discussing, exporting and sharing dashboards. 
• Never Say “So What?”: Support decision-making through data-driven strategies with built-in calls to action and adaptable recommendations. 
• Fast Implementation: Save more time and resources for analysis and data storytelling by accessing on any device through the web – nothing to install.
• Security: Protect data through no-code row-level security, custom user filters and granular permissions management for apps, dashboards, stories and datasets. The solution is hosted in a private cloud with SSL Grade A+ security certification and an infrastructure compliant with all RSSI expectations and RGPD standards. 

Embedded Analytics

• Build Once, Deploy Anywhere: Design one app for all devices and deploy anywhere to anyone in minutes, whether on the standard platform or as an embedded analytics product.
• Preserve Brand Identity: Maintain business branding through full customization and white labeling options, while offering the power of data storytelling and analytics to clients. 
• Multi-Tenancy: Handle who can see what by managing access to each embedding with granular control.
• Focus On What Matters: Saves the company time and money by helping teams focus dedicated efforts on products, alleviating the burden of developing analytics from scratch.
• Empower Non-Technical Teams: Build and deploy apps with a guided framework, even without coding experience.
• No On-Boarding Necessary: Boost adoption and customer retention through a client experience that feels familiar, with access to actionable insights from day one.
• Accelerate Time to Value: Empowers businesses to roll out robust solutions to clients in just two weeks.