Empower Your Analytics with Conversational Intelligence
The Cognos Assistant is an intelligent, conversational analytics agent designed to transform how organizations interact with IBM Cognos Analytics and uncover actionable insights with natural language. It brings together data, reporting, and workflow automation in a unified, intuitive experience — enabling business users, analysts, and decision makers to work faster and smarter without deep technical skills.
Built on IBM watsonx Orchestrate, Cognos Assistant acts as a bridge between users, APIs, and your Cognos environment, providing an enterprise-ready conversational interface that transforms reporting and analytics tasks into simple chat interactions.
What Cognos Assistant Enables
☑ Content Retrieval & Insights
- Retrieve metadata and details for reports, data modules, and other Cognos objects.
- Present structured information about content to help understand dependencies, owners, and paths.
- List users, groups, and roles available in the Cognos system.
This enables users to quickly discover what exists in their Cognos environment and understand content relationships without deep technical navigation.
☑ Content Management & Actions
Cognos Assistant also helps in performing content management actions such as:
- Delete unused or obsolete content (reports, folders, dashboards).
- Move or organize content objects.
- Manage users and user groups — including deletion of users no longer needed in the system.
These features streamline administration and help keep your Cognos environment clean, consistent, and compliant.
☑ Report Scheduling & Status Insights
Cognos Assistant facilitates report scheduling and monitoring tasks by:
- Calling underlying APIs to create, update, or disable schedules for existing reports.
- Retrieving the latest execution status, run history, and timing of scheduled reports.
- Providing visibility into whether scheduled reports are active or require attention.
These features help streamline report operations and reduce manual effort in managing scheduled reporting across the Cognos environment.
Key Benefits
☑ Fast Administrative Operations
Quickly perform common Cognos administrative tasks without navigating the Cognos Administration interface or writing scripts.
☑ Reduced Technical Barriers
Enable non-technical users to trigger complex Cognos REST API actions through guided interactions and simple prompts.
☑ Reliable & Controlled Workflows
Ensure tasks run in the correct sequence with built-in orchestration, clear status updates, and error handling.
Designed For Every User
- Cognos Administrators who want to automate routine maintenance.
- Support Teams needing consistent execution of bulk user or content actions.
- Data Teams seeking simplified control over report schedules and metadata insights.
- Business Analysts who require quick visibility into content and status without deep API knowledge.
Get Started with Cognos Partners
Unlock the full potential of Cognos Assistant by partnering with Cognos Partners – experts in IBM Cognos Analytics and watsonx Orchestrate implementations.
Our team works closely with your organization to:
- Assess your Cognos environment and identify high-value automation and reporting use cases
- Integrate Cognos Assistant securely with your Cognos Analytics platform using REST APIs and enterprise authentication
- Define governance, roles, and permissions to ensure safe and compliant operations
- Design and configure orchestrated workflows tailored to your administrative, reporting, and operational needs
- Provide ongoing optimization and support as your analytics landscape evolves
With Cognos Partners, you gain more than an assistant — you gain a strategic partner who helps modernize and streamline your Cognos ecosystem.
Visit Cognos Assistant – Support and Cognos Assistant – EULA pages for more details.