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IBM Cognos Controller

5Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM Cognos Controller was named 1 time in Financial consolidation, where Prophix led with 19%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market76 of 96

under the label threshold

Enterprise17 of 71

under the label threshold

In financial consolidation · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named IBM Cognos Controller for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Financial consolidation	Accounting and close	0%	76 of 96	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Prophix at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM Cognos Controller yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated IBM Cognos Controller across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM Cognos Controller, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Cognos Controller was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

OneStream5 of 53Not in the top three

CCH Tagetik4 of 50Not in the top three

BlackLine3 of 52Not in the top three

SAP S/4HANA Finance for Group Reporting3 of 50Not in the top three

Vena3 of 50Not in the top three

Anaplan2 of 50Not in the top three

Board2 of 50Not in the top three

FloQast2 of 50Not in the top three

HighRadius2 of 50Not in the top three

Planful2 of 50Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named IBM Cognos Controller. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 5 of the 5 answers that named IBM Cognos Controller and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com4

worldmetrics.org3

docs.oracle.com2

erpresearch.com2

fathomhq.com2

onestream.com2

blackline.com1

bluecopa.com1

chatfin.ai1

datamation.com1

Nineteen of the nineteen domain citations in answers naming IBM Cognos Controller came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/financial-close-and-consolidation-solutions4

docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/enterprise-performance-management-common/cgsad/epm_cloud_sub2

fathomhq.com/blog/the-6-best-financial-consolidation-software-solutions-in-20242

gartner.com/en/documents/62957152

worldmetrics.org/best/financial-consolidation-and-reporting-software2

blackline.com/products/financial-close/smart-close1

bluecopa.com/blog/close-management-software1

bluecopa.com/blog/financial-close-softwares1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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