Bold BI vs IBM Cognos Analytics

Bold BI is a business intelligence and analytics product for organizations working with data, reports, and embedded analytics. It lists real-time data refresh, row-level security, scheduled reports, embedded analytics, and natural-language queries. The product is available on web, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android, with hybrid deployment listed. Three editions are described: Bold BI Cloud Edition provides fully managed cloud hosting; Bold BI On-Premises Edition is self-hosted and supports Windows, Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes; and Bold BI Managed Private Cloud provides a dedicated managed environment with a customer-selected data region. None of the editions lists per-user or per-viewer fees. Prices are not displayed, and pricing is available on request. The maker, Bold BI, is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, USA, and was founded in 2019. These facts provide a view of its reporting capabilities, platform availability, hosting options, and fee structure, while leaving specific edition prices to be requested.

IBM Cognos Analytics is a paid business-intelligence platform for reporting, business analytics and AI-assisted insights. It supports hybrid deployment, real-time refresh, scheduled reports and natural-language queries across Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, web, API and self-hosted environments. Users can build multipage reports and share them as HTML, CSV, PDF or Excel files. Interactive dashboards provide visualizations, drill-downs and email or Slack sharing. Time-series modeling supports trend prediction, while the AI Assistant answers natural-language questions about selected data sources and can create dynamic dashboards. Standard costs $10.60 a month per authorized user and includes dashboards, data modules, mobile access, basic administration and AI capabilities, but users receive reports only. Premium costs $42.40 a month per authorized user and adds report creation, execution and scheduling, data explorations, custom visualizations, advanced administration and reporting agents. A free 30-day On-Demand trial supports up to five users.