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 "categories": [
  "business-intelligence",
  "reporting",
  "enterprise"
 ],
 "deployment": "hybrid",
 "evidence": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "IBM presents Cognos Analytics as governed BI reporting with agentic AI, dashboards, and release 12.1.3 conversational reporting. The page cites a 2026 TrustRadius Buyer's Choice award.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "vendor",
   "note": "The opened product page is published by IBM and names IBM Cognos Analytics as the product.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "deployment",
   "note": "IBM lists Standard and Premium SaaS plans plus on-premises, IBM cloud-hosted, certified containers, and Cloud Pak for Data deployments.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "platforms",
   "note": "The product is a web BI platform. Standard plan cards list a mobile app. This record treats the browser service as the primary platform.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "IBM sells commercial Standard plans from USD 10.60 per authorized user and Premium from USD 42.40, plus enterprise on-prem and container licensing.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "status",
   "note": "The opened page markets release 12.1.3 reporting agents and 2026 analyst awards. Cognos remains an active IBM BI product.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "IBM's Cognos Analytics 12.1.x Mashup Service Developer Guide documents REST and SOAP programming interfaces for running reports and retrieving output.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "Chapter 4 documents the REST interface at http://webservername:portnumber/ibmcognos/bi/v1/disp/rds/resource_type/source_type/source_id with GET and POST, plus secondary conversation URLs.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[1]",
   "note": "The 12.1.x SDK Developer Guide documents the BI Bus API as the SOAP service-oriented interface used by the official Java and .NET toolkits.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "Mashup REST login uses the auth/logon resource with a credentials element. SOAP and Java samples set CAMNamespace, CAMUsername, and CAMPassword credential elements.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "Documented Mashup tasks include running reports, paged output, prompts, drill up/down, saved report versions, and Viewer formats. That is report-delivery coverage, not studio authoring.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "The SDK getting-started examples connect, log on, run, delete, schedule, and modify reports through the BI Bus API. IBM Docs 12.1.x REST getting-started HTML opened as a JavaScript shell, so /api/v1 endpoint names were not taken from that page.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.api.docs",
   "note": "Opened the current IBM Docs-hosted Cognos Analytics 12.1.x Mashup Service Developer Guide PDF, including REST syntax and auth/logon.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.exists",
   "note": "IBM publishes the Cognos Software Development Kit 12.1.x with Java and .NET Framework toolkits for the BI Bus API.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.official",
   "note": "The Developer Guide is IBM product documentation for the official Cognos Software Development Kit.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[0]",
   "note": "Chapter 3 documents the Java toolkit, including connect and logon samples against Content Manager.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages[1]",
   "note": "Chapter 3 documents the .NET Framework toolkit and C# logon samples that pass encoded credentials to the BI Bus API.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "Opened IBM's MCP catalog README. Planning Analytics is listed. Cognos Analytics is not. Catalog silence is not a vendor declaration of absence.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IBM/mcp/main/README.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "Official MCP registry search for cognos returned only io.github.base76-research-lab/cognos-session-memory, which is unrelated session-memory scoring, not IBM Cognos Analytics. Registry silence is not proof that IBM ships no first-party server.",
   "source": "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers?search=cognos",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.integrations.zapier",
   "note": "Zapier returned HTTP 404 for /apps/ibm-cognos-analytics/integrations on 2026-09-12.",
   "source": "https://zapier.com/apps/ibm-cognos-analytics/integrations",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.integrations.make",
   "note": "Make's app catalog rendered a coming-soon page for /ibm-cognos-analytics on 2026-09-12.",
   "source": "https://apps.make.com/ibm-cognos-analytics",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.integrations.power_automate",
   "note": "Microsoft Learn /connectors/ibmcognosanalytics/ returned 404. The connector-reference index opened the same day had no Cognos Analytics entry.",
   "source": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/ibmcognosanalytics/",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.integrations.n8n",
   "note": "n8n built-in app-node docs returned page-not-found for n8n-nodes-base.ibmcognosanalytics on 2026-09-12.",
   "source": "https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/app-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.ibmcognosanalytics/",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting[0]",
   "note": "The Mashup Service REST interface is the documented HTTP scripting surface for report run and output retrieval.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting[1]",
   "note": "The BI Bus API is the documented SOAP/SDK scripting surface for content, security, and report lifecycle methods.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting[2]",
   "note": "Script Player is documented as a command-line utility that replays Framework Manager action logs to modify models or publish packages. It is not a general Cognos content CLI.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[0]",
   "note": "Mashup REST retrieves report outputs in documented formats, including paged output and IBM Cognos Viewer formats.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "https://www.ibm.com/llms.txt returned HTTP 404.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/llms.txt",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "modalities.agent_docs.llms_txt",
   "note": "The product /llms.txt URL returned the Cognos Analytics marketing HTML page, not an llms.txt agent document.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics/llms.txt",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "Official Mashup REST plus the BI Bus SDK are documented, authenticated, and practical for report and content work, but 12.1.x /api/v1 HTML did not render and coverage is not studio authoring, which keeps the path in the practical 7 band.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.integrations",
   "note": "Bounded 2026-09-12 checks of Zapier, Make, Microsoft connector slugs plus the connector-reference index, and n8n built-in nodes found no Cognos Analytics connector.",
   "source": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/connector-reference/",
   "tier": "scraped"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened the current IBM Cognos Analytics product page, including 12.1.3 and hybrid deployment options.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened the current IBM Docs-hosted Cognos Analytics 12.1.x Mashup Service Developer Guide PDF.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened the current IBM Docs-hosted Cognos Software Development Kit 12.1.x Developer Guide PDF.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
   "note": "Opened the Cognos Analytics 12.1.x IBM Docs index. The public response was the IBM Documentation JavaScript shell.",
   "source": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-12",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[4].url",
   "note": "Opened the current IBM/mcp catalog README. Cognos Analytics is not listed.",
   "source": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IBM/mcp/main/README.md",
   "tier": "declared"
  }
 ],
 "freshness": {
  "last_verified": "2026-09-12",
  "volatility": "medium",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "product",
    "url": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_sdk.pdf"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IBM/mcp/main/README.md"
   }
  ]
 },
 "homepage": "https://www.ibm.com/products/cognos-analytics",
 "id": "ibm-cognos-analytics",
 "license": "commercial",
 "modalities": {
  "agent_docs": {
   "llms_txt": false
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [
    "credentials"
   ],
   "coverage": "partial",
   "docs": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSEP7J_12.1.0/pdf/ca_dg_cms.pdf",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest",
    "soap"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": "unknown"
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [
    "report-output"
   ],
   "import": []
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [
    "mashup-rest",
    "bi-bus",
    "script-player"
   ],
   "webhooks": "unknown"
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": false,
   "n8n": false,
   "power_automate": false,
   "zapier": false
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": "unknown",
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "unknown"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. Documented automation is the Cognos Mashup Service REST and SOAP interfaces, the BI Bus SDK, and in-product reporting agents. Cognos Analytics browser studios remain unassessed. This is not IBM Planning Analytics.\n",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": true,
   "languages": [
    "java",
    "csharp"
   ],
   "official": true
  }
 },
 "name": "IBM Cognos Analytics",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "ibm-planning-analytics",
   "tableau",
   "power-bi",
   "looker"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "IBM",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 7,
   "cli": null,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": 0,
   "mcp": null,
   "overall": 7,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "The best evidenced agent path into IBM Cognos Analytics 12.1.x is the official Mashup Service REST interface and the BI Bus SDK, not Planning Analytics, not Tableau, and not a first-party MCP server. IBM's Cognos Software Development Kit 12.1.x Mashup Service Developer Guide documents a REST interface at /ibmcognos/bi/v1/disp/rds/ for running reports, retrieving paged output, prompts, and drill operations. Clients authenticate with POST .../rds/auth/logon and a credentials element whose CAM fields include CAMNamespace, CAMUsername, and CAMPassword. The same 12.1.x SDK Developer Guide documents the BI Bus SOAP API with official Java and .NET toolkits and a logon(credentials, roles) method that takes user ID, password, and namespace as encoded XML. Coverage is report execution, content-manager operations, and Mashup output formats, not a full authoring studio. IBM Docs HTML topics for Cognos Analytics 12.1.x REST getting-started and REST API and SDK setup opened as JavaScript documentation shells in this pass, so this record does not invent the /api/v1/session contract from those shells. Script Player is a Framework Manager action-log utility, not a general Cognos resource CLI. IBM/mcp does not list Cognos Analytics. Named Zapier, Make, Power Automate, and n8n connectors were not present in the catalogs checked. Computer-use viability is unassessed.\n"
 }
}