IBM Cognos Analytics Reports vs MxAsk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IBM Cognos Analytics Reports
Access and interact with business reports on your mobile devices for informed decision-making. Gain trusted insights visually, online or offline, and stay productive anywhere. Easily sync content from various sources.
- Offline and online access to reports
- Visual and rich user experience
- Sync reports via iTunes, email, or server
- Push notifications for new report versions
- Touch-friendly prompts and pop-ups
- Schedule and deliver content
- Annotate and share comments
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Experience information like never before with IBM Cognos Analytics Reports. Access and interact with all of the rich reports you need to make the smartest business decisions, all on your mobile devices. Gain trusted insight through a rich and visual experience whether you are offline or online to ensure you remain productive wherever you are. Easily sync your IBM Cognos Analytics content through iTunes, from email attachments or directly from your Cognos Analytics server. With the IBM Cognos Analytics mobile reports app, you can easily sync reports between your Cognos server and your user’s mobile devices. Both Active Reports and standard Reports can be delivered automatically or on-demand to your users’ mobile devices. Features: - Built on Cognos’s industry-leading governance architecture. - Connected and disconnected experience - Receive push notifications when new report versions are available - All prompts and pop-ups are automatically converted to be touch-friendly - Schedule and deliver content to your mobile device - Browse your Cognos Analytics server and run new reports - Manage your bandwidth by selectively downloading content - Annotate and share your comments with your colleagues
MxAsk
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MxAsk by A3J Group, LLC is a mobile application designed to fulfill self-service requests in IBM Maximo Asset Management. Users can create new self-service requests in a wizard-style format and view the details of their open service requests. Users can attach a picture of the problem to the request for clarity. MxAsk makes interacting with Maximo service requests easy. All on the go, and all using the authorized IBM Maximo API's. Visit https://a3jgroup.com/services/a3j-mobile-apps/ for more information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: IBM Cognos Analytics Reports at every 3 months against MxAsk's every 7 months. MxAsk's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
IBM Cognos Analytics Reports ships an update every 3 months, MxAsk every 7 months. Both last shipped on September 30, 2026.
| Parameter | IBM Cognos Analytics Reports | MxAsk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IBM | A3J Group, LLC |
In-app purchases
IBM Cognos Analytics Reports
No in-app purchases
MxAsk
No in-app purchases
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