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México D.F. — January 6, 2005 -
 Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), lÃder del mundo en soluciones de inteligencia de negocios (BI) y administración del desempeño corporativo, anunció hoy la aceptación continua de la industria de las implementaciones en extranets y portales empresariales que aprovechan Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence Series. Cognos ReportNetÂÂ, junto con Cognos PowerPlay®, ofrece a las compañÃas una solución que no ocupa espacio fÃsico para comunicar con efectividad información esencial en un ambiente basado en extranet. Organizaciones globales lÃderes, entre otras de atención a la salud, seguridad pública, servicios y bienestar sociales, mercadotecnia y educación, han implementado Cognos BI como parte de sus servicios de extranet.
Cognos continúa avanzando en implementaciones para Web y extranets entre clientes que utilizan OLAP, situándose a la cabeza de la industria. Con miles de clientes a nivel mundial, Cognos entiende de manera única los retos que enfrentan las organizaciones globales para tener acceso a y distribuir información dentro de portales empresariales, extranets y ÂÂredes de agentes o distribuidoresÂÂ. Las extranets basadas en Cognos permiten a las organizaciones dejar fácilmente accesible información enfocada y prioritizada, mejorando con ello la visibilidad de factores de éxito claves.
Por ejemplo, en el sector público, las extranets basadas en Cognos permiten a agencias del gobierno en todos los niveles enriquecer sus portales de e-gobierno con datos seleccionados de sus propias bases de datos. Los clientes del sector público de Cognos generan datos de criminalidad, tiempos de espera de pacientes en instituciones de atención a la salud para ciudadanos y datos de estado de la facturación para proveedores. Este acceso a datos de autoservicio ayuda al gobierno a incrementar la eficiencia y la efectividad (ofreciendo con ello un mejor servicio a sus constituyentes y demostrando un buen gobierno).
ÂÂCon nuestras soluciones para extranets, las organizaciones pueden convertir realmente datos en activos y hacer de las extranets una herramienta competitiva clave para captar clientes, asociados de soporte, hacer más eficientes a los empleados y reforzar la comunicación con los proveedoresÂÂ, comentó José Carlos GarcÃa Molina Gerente Regional de Ventas para México de Cognos. ÂÂEl análisis de alto impacto y la información que proporciona Cognos ayuda a coordinar la empresa extendida y a crear nuevas fuentes de valor y ventaja competitivaÂÂ.
Las extranets basadas en Cognos son utilizadas ampliamente por diversos clientes con diversas estadÃsticas y reportes fácilmente disponibles sobre cada uno de ellos:
CIUDAD DE ALBUQUERQUE:
La Ciudad de Albuquerque ha implementado la solución de inteligencia de negocios más amplia de la industria para hacer posible el análisis y reporte basados en la Web las 24 horas del dÃa los 7 dÃas de la semana sobre estadÃsticas criminales, impuestos, reportes de campañas, aplicaciones de desarrollo y servicios a proveedores. Continuando con la extensión de su innovador sitio de e-gobierno, el nuevo sistema de pago de servicios públicos ofrece también a las personas encargadas de tomar decisiones de los departamentos de agua y desechos sólidos actualizaciones de la noche a la mañana sobre el estado de pagos de los ciudadanos a través de Internet.
ÂÂCognos nos ofrece una forma de mantener informados a nuestros residentes. Todo mundo, desde el personal de mi oficina hasta los funcionarios de la ciudad y hasta el ciudadano promedio, puede obtener actualizaciones diarias sobre información de seguridad pública a través de nuestro sitio en la extranetÂÂ, señaló el Alcalde MartÃn Chávez, de la Ciudad de Albuquerque. ÂÂCognos ofrece una solución que cualquier persona puede entender, lo que les permite ver la información que les resulta importante con facilidad. Dado el alcance de nuestro proyecto, la ciudad demandaba una solución que pudiera estar activa 24 x7. Obtuvimos eso y más con CognosÂÂ.
Acerca de Cognos
Cognos, lÃder del mundo en el área de la inteligencia de negocios (BI), ofrece software que ayuda a las compañÃas a mejorar su desempeño en los negocios haciendo posible una toma de decisiones efectiva en todos los niveles de la organización. Precursor en la definición de la categorÃa de software para inteligencia de negocios, Cognos ofrece el siguiente nivel de ventaja competitiva (Administración del desempeño corporativo, Corporate Performance Management (CPM)), que se logra a través de la aplicación estratégica de la inteligencia de negocios en una escala empresarial.
CPM permite a las organizaciones medir la ejecución contra la estrategia de negocios para garantizar que las dos funciones se alineen en todos los niveles de la empresa. Cognos ofrece una estructura para CPM que vincula a personas, información y procesos de toma de decisiones en toda la organización, y además hace posible el ciclo completo de administración con software integrado para procesos de planeación, presupuesto, generación de informes, análisis y evaluación de resultados.
Cognos atiende a más de 20.000 clientes en más de 135 paÃses. Las soluciones y servicios de inteligencia de negocios empresarial de Cognos están disponibles también con más de 3,000 asociados y distribuidores en todo el mundo
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ORLANDO, Fla. — October 15, 2007
Ventana Research has found that “most companies standardize their transaction processing (accounting, inventory management and so on) within core enterprise systems such as ERP or CRM because this software handles these sorts of repetitive and often interconnected tasks well. On the other hand, corporations have shown no preference for ERP when it comes to functions involving decision support and analytics; frequently they find that alternative approaches are better for their purposes.”*
Cognos delivers dynamic and effective globally scalable reporting, ad-hoc query, analysis, dashboarding and scorecarding capabilities on top of SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver Business Information Warehouse applications. The Cognos solution helps organizations drive more effective performance management based decision-making. Global customers who are using Cognos 8 BI to extend their SAP solutions for managing best-in-class performance include Arla Foods, Bauhaus, CheckFree Corporation, Mainova, Molnlycke Healthcare and Nestle:
Arla Foods is the second largest dairy company in Europe and a global supplier of dairy products for leading food producers throughout the world. The company has one of the largest production instances of SAP NetWeaver 2004 Business Information Warehouse worldwide and is using Cognos 8 BI to produce business reports for corporate reporting and timelier decision-making. One of these Cognos reports contains over 700 key metrics, making it an extremely rich and complete business overview.
“Our internal and external knowledge workers receive daily reports according to their role and access rights,” said Ulrik Hinke, BI business process manager, Arla Foods. “With Cognos, we’ve been able to gain six hours a day in the critical month-end closing period through the generation of reports in parallel, with effective email distribution and Cognos 8′s ability to support the presentation of complex information. Our employees have access to pertinent corporate data when they need it; without an ongoing reliance on specialized IT resources. The efficiency of our Cognos reporting platform helps us make effective business decisions in a very timely and efficient manner.”
BAUHAUS opened Germany’s first specialist DIY market in Mannheim in 1960. With its innovative concept BAUHAUS enabled shoppers to find everything they needed in a relaxed atmosphere under one roof. The concept proved to be a success: throughout Europe the company now employs more than 14,000 people in more than 185 outlets. With more than 28,000 m squared of sales space, BAUHAUS in Dusseldorf-Gerresheim, Germany is now the largest DIY market across Europe.
“We have improved our reporting systems enormously with Cognos 8 BI. As a strategic extension to SAP BW and other data sources, Cognos 8 lets considerably more employees access important business information,” said a BAUHAUS representative. “Access is especially easy, flexible and fast. In the past, Head Office had to print individualized reports and mail them out. Now staff in the different outlets can open and analyze all the information they need in the portal. This reduces costs and our response times, which means that Cognos increases our competitiveness. Pioneers are always the first to lead – and that’s what we are with Cognos 8.”
CheckFree Corporation (Nasdaq: CKFR), is a leading provider of financial electronic commerce services and products. A Cognos BI customer for 10 years, CheckFree uses Cognos 8 BI against SAP BW data to produce detailed financial forecasting and budgeting reports across multiple cost centers.
“By using Cognos 8 BI in our SAP BW environment, we’ve been able to improve our employee usage rates through a more user-friendly, self-service reporting interface,” said Brian Davis, manager, enterprise report development, CheckFree. “Our data refresh rate has also improved from a 24-hour time period to hourly. Previously our financial analysts had to pull information from SAP and manually create reports within a spreadsheet. Now, the users can self-serve and our financial analysts are not overloaded and can focus on strategic analysis instead of manual data manipulation.”
Mainova AG is a leading German provider of electricity, heat and water. For Mainova, the rationale to invest in Cognos 8 BI on top of SAP BW stemmed from a computing environment that spanned multiple data sources and provided limited visibility to Mainova’s customer base. The sales, marketing, billing and finance departments now use analytical reports based on sales statistics that provide in-depth analysis of consumer behavior patterns in terms of revenue and consumption.
“By integrating Cognos 8 BI and SAP BW, we are efficiently addressing and managing our performance management challenges,” said Ismute Tews, Data Warehouse Project Manager, Mainova AG. “We now see customer needs directly and respond to requirements from our individual departments without delay. Cognos 8 for our BW data warehouse provides us with a proven and valuable economical advantage by delivering formatted information out of our BW system about sales markets and customer requirements as well as improving the collection of revenue and consumption data, while saving both time and money.”
Molnlycke Health Care is one of the world’s leading providers of single-use surgical and wound care products and services to the healthcare sector. Molnlycke selected Cognos 8 BI to provide employees with a consistent view of corporate information by combining data from its SAP and non-SAP systems across the enterprise.
“The success of our BI strategy is based on sailing on SAP BW and driving performance with Cognos 8 BI,” said Roderick Mooren, IT Director, Molnlycke Health Care. “Through the tight integration between Cognos and SAP, we have been able to consolidate all the information from our offices worldwide which has increased overall visibility into the organization and enabled management to make more informed decisions.”
“Customer experience has shown us that building a successful performance driven enterprise tends not to be achievable with an ERP-only approach,” said Leah Macmillan, vice-president, product marketing, Cognos. “To build sustainable competitive advantage, organizations can look to the successful examples of Arla, Bauhaus, CheckFree, Mainova, and Molnlycke Healthcare. These organizations depend on interoperability with SAP and they rely on Cognos’ proven self-service capabilities and independent, market leading performance management platform to enable expedient delivery of complete and relevant information, from both SAP and non-SAP sources.”
About Cognos 8 BI on SAP:
Cognos 8 BI is built on a proven Web services-based, services-oriented architecture and certified Powered by SAP NetWeaver(R). For further information on Cognos software and solutions for SAP visit: http://www.cognos.com/solutions/data/sap/business_intelligence.html
*Ventana Research, “When ERP is Not the Right Choice,” by Robert D. Kugel, October, 23, 2006. Article ID: V06-60.
About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions — How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and product information are available on Cognos’ Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
NEW YORK — January 15, 2008
According to the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.’s latest IT Spending Survey, the business intelligence software category “remains a top priority among our respondents for the upcoming 12 months. It is a testament to the fact that enterprises, through increasing adoption of enterprise resource planning tools, have accumulated vast amounts of data and are now looking for tools to enable them to improve their decision-making processes on the basis of that data.”*
Cognos 8 BI v3 is the third major release of Cognos’ business intelligence flagship that was introduced in 2005. It addresses the needs of large enterprises and mid-market organizations alike as they capitalize on their ERP investments and turn data into actionable, relevant performance information for improved decision-making across industries. New highly targeted information delivery and improved analysis capabilities let knowledge workers, ranging from front-line managers to executives, receive strategic business information where, when and how they need it to make better decisions. New deployment and administration advances also make it easier for IT administrators to deploy and manage their performance management environment, while growing their user communities.
“Cognos 8 BI v3 is a rich product offering with strong benefits for business users who can now take advantage of statement-style reporting, improved navigation, richer visualization and business-friendly tools for building OLAP cubes,” said Chad Erman, Business Intelligence Lead, Southwestern Energy Company. “Features like briefing books, flexible information organization and enhanced dashboard filtering help refine the style and quality of integral BI information that is delivered to key individuals, departments and business partners. With this product, both midsize organizations and large enterprises should be able to increase the value and relevance of their BI information across all levels and functions of the organization.”
The new user capabilities of Cognos 8 BI v3 that deliver more targeted information to more user communities include:
— Express Authoring Mode: Provides a self-service, streamlined, purpose-built reporting interface for finance and business analysts to access financial and operational data sources and create financial, statement style reports. Optimized to support cross tabulations, Express Authoring gives these users the simplified environment required to easily create and publish these reports using consistent information from their enterprise BI platform.
— Business Driven Modeling with New Transformer Capabilities: Provides business groups with the ability to easily create and manage their own perspectives of performance information by creating new OLAP cubes with the consistent information in their enterprise BI platform. Business analysts, for example, can use Cognos 8 BI to construct smaller, faster data sets of very specific, relevant line of business performance information for more targeted exploration, analysis and faster decision-making. This capability satisfies the unique requirements of line of business workers while leveraging existing IT investments and retaining IT oversight on all user community information.
— Scorecard Portlets: Through Cognos Connection, the BI portal-based dashboard, business users and executives can now save time by accessing all of their organization’s relevant strategy management, scorecard information and diagrams in one comprehensive, at-a-glance view. This capability helps organizations efficiently provide more visibility into company strategy to ensure cross-functional alignment through execution.
— Briefing Books: Briefing books help busy IT administrators or line of business users address special requests from senior management for a comprehensive view of performance information. Professional authors can combine different styles and formats within a single report, making it easy for executives to navigate and print multi-style, multi-page reports that contain related, critical business information.
— Self-service Personal Alerts: Business users can create their own timely personalized alerts for scheduled reports, controlling when and how they receive critical performance information relevant to their specific area of responsibility. This capability personalizes and streamlines the reporting experience for end users and frees IT from having to deliver specialized reports on demand.
Core Platform Advances
Underpinning this broad set of BI user capabilities are core advances in the Cognos 8 open, enterprise-class platform. Proven best practices are built directly into the modeling environment, helping data modelers more efficiently deliver performance information to the business. As well, the central, web-based administration capabilities now provide a more holistic view of the overall system activities and their status, enabling Cognos 8 BI administrators to more easily and proactively manage and maintain their deployments. With a metrics-driven management approach, administrators can meet their business Service Level Agreements, as their user communities grow.
“The broad system management advances we’ve tested in Cognos’ enterprise platform help us speed development and overall productivity to achieve and exceed service commitments,” said Thomas Haag, Project Manager Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Lufthansa. “The administrative enhancements let our operations team proactively monitor the overall system health in real time, easing repetitive questions and speeding decisions, on peak usage days in particular.”
New components of the Cognos 8 enterprise-class platform that ease deployment and management include:
— Model Advisor: Lets novice or advanced data modelers reduce the time and effort required to build high-quality models for delivering timely information to the business. They can leverage Cognos modeling best-practices to guide the model development from initial design or diagnose issues in the model where improvements can be made.
— Snapshot of System Health: A key enterprise management capability that gives administrators a single, consolidated view into all the information they need to quickly understand the status of the entire system environment. They can address potential problem areas before they become issues for end users and easily monitor all BI deployments to quickly obtain status of all servers, server groups, dispatchers, and services. Metrics can also be exposed to systems such as IBM Tivoli to tie into overall enterprise application monitoring activities.
— Proactive Administration: Administrators can now view any number of system metrics and set thresholds to monitor them. With the thresholds, administrators can be alerted when a metric is starting to trend down or up and requires attention. These capabilities ease the burden on administrators as deployments scale and system complexity increases, ensuring they are able to exceed service level agreements with the business by addressing issues before they impact users. Priority can be given to critical processes to ensure consistent service delivery.
— Upgrade Manager: This feature helps IT administrators improve responsiveness to the business by streamlining the process of introducing technology changes such as upgrades or system changes. It provides the means to test, compare and summarize report results between two parallel environments. This reduces the cost and effort associated with upgrading to new capabilities or switching to the latest version of a database.
“These key advancements will help organizations see a greater return on their BI investments, especially as they expand their community of Cognos BI users,” said Leah MacMillan, vice-president, product marketing, Cognos, Inc. “Customers will be able to improve overall business performance by enabling diverse users- from front-line business personnel to financial analysts to executives – to receive personalized, relevant information where, when and how they need it. Users across the organization can make better, more informed decisions, and IT can more easily deploy and manage their BI solutions.”
For a more detailed summary of what is new in Cognos 8 BI v3 visit specific issue papers on delivering targeted information, supporting more user communities and deployment and management.
Availability:
Cognos 8 BI v3 is available today direct from Cognos or its network of resellers worldwide.
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NEW YORK — February 6, 2008
”This is an exciting time for Cognos and IBM partners as our opportunities to innovate and collaborate grow significantly,” said Mel Zeledon, Senior Vice President, Global Alliances, Cognos, an IBM Company. “As part of IBM we have the ability to expand our vision as the leading BI and Performance Management provider, allow our partner base to both leverage a broader set of solutions from IBM and enable open interoperability with multiple non-IBM technologies, solutions and services in heterogeneous environments, in order to advance information management driven initiatives for their customers.”
Global partners resoundingly support of the IBM acquisition of Cognos:
Alliance Partners
Capgemini
“Through a collaborative partnership and global alliance Capgemini and Cognos bring together global management and IT consulting experience as well as leading business intelligence and performance management solutions. We welcome the acquisition of Cognos by IBM and will continue to leverage our mutual expertise to deliver the guidance, strategy, and implementation projects that move organizations toward better business decisions company-wide. We believe that this merger brings together two of the leaders in the Business Intelligence space and the integration of technologies will strengthen Cognos’ ability to win in this highly competitive market.”
Scott Barnes, Vice President, Business Intelligence, Capgemini
Deloitte
“Deloitte Consulting and Cognos have developed an Alliance to help our clients around the world achieve their business intelligence and performance management objectives. With the addition of Cognos to IBM’s information management portfolio, we can look forward to continued collaboration and joint momentum with both IBM and Cognos to help our clients reach their goals.”
Bob Dalton, a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP and Deloitte’s IBM Alliance leader
Satyam Computer Services
“To help our clients manage their performance and intelligence needs so that they are better able to extract greater value from their processes and market endeavors, we’ve been working extensively using strong analytics and business management capabilities. Cognos has been a formidable ally in this pursuit. The Cognos acquisition increases IBM’s ability to provide a significantly enhanced and integrated platform. We are convinced our clients will benefit from the synergy leverage these merged capabilities will provide.”
Shailesh F.Shah, Chief Strategy Officer, Satyam Computer Services
Tata Consultancy Services
“TCS shares the Cognos vision for making business intelligence a mainstream and pervasive technology. As a charter member of the Cognos Partner program and a premium System Integrator to IBM Alliances, we combine mutual strengths and capabilities to deliver business value to the market. We are excited about this acquisition and look forward to continued collaboration in opportunity creation and best-in-class delivery.”
Dr. Santosh Mohanty, Global Director and Practice Head, Business Intelligence & Performance Management, TCS.
Teradata
“Teradata and Cognos have been partners for more than 10 years. Together, we provide our customers a flexible and comprehensive performance management solution, including strategic and operational BI as well as enterprise planning solutions. Looking ahead, we expect to continue expanding our partnership to provide mutual customers with a broad range of expertise in end-to-end analytics solutions. It is partnerships like this that will validate and grow our respective leadership positions in the forefront of the analytics industry.”
Darryl McDonald, Chief Marketing Officer, Teradata Corporation.
Technology Partners
Appfluent
“As an existing technology partner of IBM, delivering comprehensive data warehouse lifecycle management solutions and of Cognos, delivering analytical applications for enterprise IT via the Cognos 8 BI platform, Appfluent is enthusiastic about the combination that the joining of these companies brings to the market. We’re eager to continue our technology integration and work with them to advance information management driven initiatives for our joint customers.”
Frank Gelbart, CEO, Appfluent
BrightStar Partners
“As a long standing Cognos Platinum services and reseller partner and Powered by Cognos solution provider, BrightStar Partners is passionate about Cognos as a company and as a solution to Performance Management, and are dedicated to supporting their vision through implementation and software sales under the IBM fold.”
Neil Morgan, President, BrightStar Partners Inc.
Clarabridge
“As a leading provider of text analytics, our OEM partnership with Cognos lets joint customers use Cognos BI to tap into rich customer experiences and insights contained in unstructured data. We are excited to move forward with our partnership initiatives with Cognos under IBM and see the combination as valuable to the information management market.”
Sid Banerjee, CEO, Clarabridge
RIM
“As a technology partner of both IBM and Cognos, RIM is pleased to continue our collaboration with the companies now that they have united. Together we will continue to help customers improve mobile productivity and organizational workflow through enhanced wireless access to a wide range of business applications. In particular, the extension of SOA components to the BlackBerry platform is making it easier for our mutual customers to access and input information remotely and we look forward to further leveraging this powerful architecture to support the evolving needs of the mobile workforce.”
Jeff McDowell, Vice President, Global Alliances, Research In Motion
North America Partners
CBH
“As a powered by Cognos solutions provider and long time Cognos Partner we are pleased to see the teaming of two leaders in information management and performance management. We fully anticipate continued success in accelerating our customers’ performance management initiatives as part of the IBM partner community.”
Joe Baird, President NA, Parson Consulting
Creeth-Richman
“IBM’s acquisition of Cognos is a powerful testament to the validation and growth of the performance management sector. As a long-time Cognos partner, we and our clients have benefited from the company’s innovative, best-of-breed technologies as well as its commitment to support and service. Moving into this new era of performance management, we will fully leverage Cognos and IBM’s joint expertise and platform openness to help our clients find and implement creative solutions to their business problems, while providing reliable support and a relationship built on trust.”
Richard Creeth, President, Creeth, Richman & Associates, Inc.
Grant Thornton
“Cognos clearly has strong financial performance management and reporting solutions today, and with the acquisition by IBM we expect these offerings to be sustained and enhanced by IBM’s software strength in information management.”
Hank Steininger, Managing Partner, Grant Thornton
ISA Consulting
“IBM’s acquisition of Cognos combines one of the largest business software powerhouses with a world-leading performance management software company. The strategic move will only further strengthen the suite of solutions offered by both vendors. We are excited about this venture and how it will enhance the Cognos performance management solutions to meet the increasing demands of current and future ISA customers.”
Lou Polisano, CEO, ISA Consulting
Revelwood
“As a company that provides performance management solutions that enable companies to predict, measure, evaluate and impact business performance, we are very enthusiastic about our partner, Cognos, becoming part of IBM. With IBM’s performance management partner initiative already in place, we are confident that our partnership with Cognos – supported by IBM – will remain strong, providing each company with additional opportunities in the future.”
Kenneth Wolf, CEO, Revelwood
EMEA Partners
Eniac
“Eniac has been a proud IBM Premier Business Partner for 30 years, an IBM SOA Specialty Partner as well as a Cognos Certified solutions partner for a decade, and more recently a Cognos Platinum Reseller partner. We attest to the value that the combined companies bring to the information management space and will work readily with the expanded team to continue delivering winning solutions and services our customers to achieve performance management excellence.”
Bert Vrielink, Director, Eniac Business Intelligence
Inca Software
“As a leading reseller of Cognos software and services in the UK, Inca welcomes the acquisition of Cognos by IBM and the opportunities for collaboration and innovation this joining will deliver. We are committed to continuing to providing the full range of Cognos solutions and the skills to implement and support effective planning and business intelligence applications.”
Chris Kerrison, CEO, Inca Software
Asia-Pacific Partners
CDP Group
“We believe that the combination of these two great companies will bring both compelling vision and execution to the performance management market. We are now able to offer our New Zealand customers and prospects an extremely enhanced and vibrant outlook, with stronger and more innovative solutions, that can revolutionize their operational effectiveness.”
Allen Keyte, Director, CDP Group
Cortell Group
“Cortell is pleased to join the broad IBM-Cognos ecosystem based on our considerable experience in building a customer base that has come to rely on Cognos TM1. We applaud this advancement in performance management by teaming two industry leaders and we look forward to continuing to build our practice on IBM Cognos proven solutions.”
Ernest Glad, CEO, Cortell Group
Focus Strategies & Solutions
“As a leading Cognos partner, Focus is delighted about the opportunities that the IBM acquisition brings to our organization. We see this exciting development as a real vehicle for growth and expansion of our business, particularly from the perspective of end-to-end Information Management solutions and services. We can deepen our relationships with our accounts and provide them with a comprehensive offering that is second to none. We feel that the combination of the two organizations is really synergistic, with minimal overlap, and will bring enormous benefit to us and more importantly, to our customers.”
Tom Reich, Managing Director, Focus Strategies & Solutions
Additional Partner Statements in Support of IBM’s acquisition of Cognos can be found at www.cognos.com/news/releases/2008/0206-quotes.html.
About Cognos, an IBM Company
Cognos, an IBM company, is the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions. It provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos was acquired by IBM in January 2008. For more information visit http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ and http://www.cognos.com.
Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated, an IBM Company, in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and product information are available on Cognos’ Web site at http://www.cognos.com
ORLANDO, Fla. — May 9, 2007
CRC has 130 locations nationwide, providing flexible treatment services to help foster long-term recovery. These services include detoxification, inpatient treatment, day and intensive outpatient programs, aftercare and therapeutic living programs.
With its clinicians and other staff increasingly working from field locations, CRC required a mobile reporting solution that would work with the BlackBerry wireless platform to help speed and streamline the flow of relevant information to employees.
“In the behavioral healthcare field, clinicians and key decision makers are constantly on the go with little or no access to a LAN-based computer,” said Jay Ramiodi, VP and CTO, CRC Health Corporation. “We needed a solution on a single platform that would integrate traditional BI reports with current, up-to-date client status indicators or other key snippets of actionable information. Consequently, staff who are highly involved in clinical decision-making can proactively respond and immediately take or recommend appropriate preventative action.”
CRC evaluated competing solutions and selected Cognos 8 Go! Mobile based on the strength of Cognos’ product innovation, integration with the BlackBerry wireless platform, and proven business intelligence reporting capabilities. The health care provider is working with Cognos silver reseller partner, Locus Solutions, Inc. for the implementation.
Cognos 8 Go! Mobile provides convenient wireless access to the most relevant operational and strategic performance information, delivered through the reporting, analysis and metrics capabilities of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. The solution delivers a rich mobile-client that allows executives or front-line mobile workers to use their handheld devices, such as BlackBerry smartphones, to read and securely interact with their company’s performance information and make informed decisions regardless of location or time.
“With Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, healthcare organizations like CRC can extend the reach of their mission-critical client and organizational information to mobile devices like BlackBerry smart phones for right-time decision-making from any location,” said Leah MacMillan, vice president of product marketing, Cognos. “By selecting our business productivity solution for their mobile workforce, CRC is helping drive better business decisions for improved performance and client service.”
Cognos’ industry-leading performance management solutions have helped numerous healthcare organizations worldwide cut costs, increase operational efficiencies, and comply with government regulations. Cognos can be found in such leading healthcare organizations as Nebraska Medical Center, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Trillium Health Centre (Canada). For more healthcare customer success stories, please visit http://www.cognos.com/company/success/ss_healthcare.html
About Cognos Business Intelligence Products:
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) delivers easy-to-use BI with the right context, through familiar interfaces, at the right time. To further enable faster and more effective decisions, Cognos offers additional consumer modes that bring BI to the familiar working environments of every worker. Cognos 8 Go! Mobile helps users make more informed decisions in context to quickly improve individual effectiveness and organizational performance when mobile, while enabling IT to further leverage existing investments in Cognos 8 BI to continue lowering the overall cost of ownership. For further information about Cognos BI Products visit: http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/index.html
About CRC Health:
CRC Health is the nation’s largest provider of drug and alcohol treatment services in terms of the number of patients treated. CRC treats more than 50,000 people yearly. The company is based in Cupertino, California and operates residential facilities, and outpatient and opiate treatment clinics throughout the U.S. CRC provides lifelong care to adult and adolescent patients through a continuum of services including detoxification, residential treatment, partial hospitalization, day treatment, intensive outpatient programs, sober living, community education, intervention and aftercare. CRC has extended its presence to the Internet with eGetgoing, an online substance abuse treatment platform. For further information please visit: http://www.crchealth.com.
About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions — How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited.
All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and product information are available on Cognos’ Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
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BURLINGTON, Mass. — October 3, 2007
Acambis is a leading biotechnology company that develops novel vaccines which target unmet medical needs or offer improvements over existing products. To optimize its investment in research and development, Acambis wanted to ensure it was spending properly across the organization. The firm looked at a variety of solutions and chose Cognos 8 BI as its corporate solution to integrate projects and initiatives and more effectively measure performance against resource allocation plans. Cognos 8 BI will allow for timely access to accurate data and facilitate better collaboration and control between function and project leaders. Acambis executives will now receive reports specifically tailored to their needs and objectives, enabling them to gain an immediate sense of their performance status and identify trouble areas in advance.
“Historically it took a long time to produce reports and analyze the information. Data was difficult to extract and was not always accurately reflected, which meant the credibility of the report was put in question,” said Mohammad Hammami, Director of Financial Management, Acambis. “With Cognos 8 BI we will have quicker reporting with accurate data, which means management will have greater confidence in the information and, more importantly, in the decisions they make around resource allocation in particular.”
As a long time Cognos Planning customer, Acambis will integrate its financial planning process with Cognos 8 BI to deliver a complete performance management environment. Cognos Planning helps Acambis forecast and manage its internal resources – including cash, people and revenues. Cognos BI will help Acambis measure key performance metrics against these targeted plans, identify trends, and spot anomalies.
Business intelligence and enterprise planning are key capabilities of the Cognos Performance Management System, which combines technology, best practices, analytical applications and solutions, and a broad network of partners into a single performance management solution for customers. Cognos 8 BI is the only BI product that provides the complete range of BI capabilities – reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management, and data integration – on a single, proven architecture. Cognos 8 Planning leverages Cognos 8 BI to enable reporting and analysis on real-time plans. For more information on Cognos Performance Management please visit: http://www.cognos.com/performance-management/index.html.
“The pharmaceutical industry is seeing rising R&D costs, which means companies such as Acambis are looking for ways to identify cost savings and improve business processes,” said Bill Stevens, associate vice president of life sciences marketing, Cognos. “Acambis, with its expertise in vaccine development, paired with Cognos’ leading performance management solutions, will enable better decision-making to address its specific needs and keep the competitive edge required to succeed.”
Cognos is a recognized leader in delivering performance management solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. Currently, 25 of the top 30 pharmaceutical firms rely on Cognos performance management software. In addition to Acambis, other customers include Novartis, Bayer UK, and Quintiles Transnational. For more information about Cognos solutions for pharmaceuticals and life sciences, please visit http://www.cognos.com/solutions/industry//pharma ceuticals-life-sciences/index.html.
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About Acambis
Acambis is a leading vaccine company developing novel vaccines that address significant unmet medical needs or substantially improve standards of care. ChimeriVax-JE, Acambis’ most advanced product in its non-biodefence pipeline, has completed pivotal Phase 3 trials and is currently undergoing paediatric trials in India. It is partnered with sanofi pasteur and Bharat Biotech. Acambis’ proprietary ChimeriVax technology, developed in association with St Louis University, has also been used to develop ChimeriVax-West Nile, which is undergoing Phase 2 clinical testing, making it the most advanced investigational vaccine against the West Nile virus. Acambis also has the only vaccine in development against Clostridium difficile bacteria, a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. Acambis’ influenza programe aims to develop a universal vaccine against influenza, for which a universal ‘A’ strain vaccine, ACAM-FLU-A, is currently being tested in a Phase 1 trial, and also includes various further vaccine candidates in the research and pre-clinical stages.
Recognized internationally as the leading producer of smallpox vaccines, Acambis has manufactured its investigational smallpox vaccine, ACAM2000, for emergency-use stockpiles held by the US Government and 14 others governments around the world.
Acambis is based in Cambridge, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ACM). More information is available at www.acambis.com.
About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions — How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and product information are available on Cognos’ Web site at http://www.cognos.com
BURLINGTON, Mass. — November 14, 2007
Cognos 8 Go! Mobile provides convenient wireless access to the most relevant operational and strategic performance information, delivered through the reporting, analysis and metrics capabilities of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. The solution delivers a rich mobile-client that allows executives or front-line mobile workers to use their BlackBerry smartphones to read and securely interact with personalized corporate information and make informed decisions while connected or offline, and regardless of location or time.
Dorel Industries (TSX: DII.B, DII.A) a global consumer products company which designs, manufactures and markets a diverse portfolio of powerful consumer brands, such as Schwinn, Mongoose, Cosco, Safety 1st, Maxi-Cosi and Quinny, recently selected Cognos 8 Go Mobile to streamline the delivery of performance information for its executive staff.
“Our management team is traveling often, so having this easy mobile access to core performance information is a great capability to offer them,” said Ian Farthing, VP Corporate Services, Dorel Industries Inc. “Cognos 8 Go! Mobile is a very unique and impressive solution to address a growing need for mobile access to key corporate information for improved, efficient decision-making.”
Mark Anthony Group, a manufacturer and distributor of fine wines, premium beer and specialty beverages including the Mike’s Hard Lemonade brand, has been using Cognos 8 BI since the late 1990′s for increased visibility into key business drivers such as internal metrics and the competitive landscape. With Cognos as its standard reporting tool for sales and marketing, the company intends to bring Cognos 8! Go Mobile to its sales force for on-the-go access to account reports.
“Cognos 8 Go Mobile offers us a highly portable reporting solution for our mobile sales force,” said Michael Der, business intelligence manager, Mark Anthony Group. “With mobile business intelligence, our sales representatives can quickly gain key, up-to-date insight into account information while in the field.”
Founded in 1992, McGuigan Simeon Wines is one of Australia’s largest wine producers, employing 800 staff. The company markets more than 50% of its harvest in the UK and the U.S. McGuigan is upgrading its business intelligence and performance management systems to Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) enterprise-wide. The company also purchased Cognos 8 Go! Mobile to provide its senior management with access to dashboard reports on their BlackBerry smartphones on the road at any point in time.
“At McGuigan, we understand that information is the key driver to success, especially when operating in international markets. That’s why the cultural change is just as important as the technology. Together with Cognos we’ll provide our people with comprehensive training so that they’ll fully understand and embrace the new capabilities in Cognos 8 BI,” said Ryan Klose, CIO, McGuigan Simeon Wines. “In order to strengthen our international B-2-B relationships we are even considering inviting our business partners and suppliers to join our BI platform.”
“Customers want to extend the reach of their mission-critical client and organizational information to the BlackBerry smart phone for right-time decision-making from any location,” said Leah MacMillan, vice president of product marketing, Cognos. “By selecting Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, these customers are at the forefront of the drive towards better client service enabled by more efficient business decisions.”
“Mobile business intelligence is a growing priority for organizations that want to improve decision-making and gain a competitive advantage,” said Jeff McDowell, Vice President, Global Alliances at Research In Motion. “We’re pleased to work with Cognos to raise awareness of Cognos 8 Go! Mobile among enterprise customers deploying the BlackBerry solution.”
About Cognos Business Intelligence Products:
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) delivers easy-to-use BI with the right context, through familiar interfaces, at the right time. To further enable faster and more effective decisions, Cognos offers additional consumer modes that bring BI to the familiar working environments of every worker. Cognos 8 Go! Mobile helps users make more informed decisions in context to quickly improve individual effectiveness and organizational performance when mobile, while enabling IT to further leverage existing investments in Cognos 8 BI to continue lowering the overall cost of ownership. For further information about Cognos BI Products visit: http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/index.html
About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions — How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. RIM assumes no liability and makes no representation, warranty or guarantee in relation to third party products or services. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and product information are available on Cognos’ Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
Pittsburgh, PA — June 16, 2008
There’s a fine line between having the right information you need to make hotel budgets and solid business decisions, and being confronted by so much data that it paralyzes thinking. For numbers-driven hotel companies, information should be king. But today it is too often the opposite, arriving as a stack of spreadsheets that managers must carefully review and analyze to see how their organization is performing–or was a week or more ago.
Business Intelligence (BI) applications solved this problem and are now widely used throughout the hospitality industry. A true BI system consolidates information from financial and non-financial sources such as multiple property management systems and financial planning software, Smith Travel Research (STR), guest satisfaction scoring, payroll and other systems and delivers an analysis that enables users to identify the reasons behind the numbers that affect how their hotel management business is performing. Today, over 20 hotel management companies and ownership groups with over 2,500 total properties use Aptech’s BI solutions to automate, analyze and deliver forecasting and
performance information.
To make business intelligence data more accessible and the systems easer to use, hospitality BI leader Aptech Computer Systems, which utilizes the Cognos database engine, is rolling out a new version of its Execuvue Business Intelligence System based on the latest Cognos 8.3 technology that provides a much wider scope of data delivery options and formats. The new Execuvue BI platform ‘humanizes hotel software’ by making the system easier to use and enables a hotel company to customize its BI information output so each manager sees the data they need in the delivery format they can use best for faster and more profitable decisions.
“In the past year, Cognos has expanded its reporting options, delivery flexibility and dashboarding functionality,” said Jill Wilder, vice president of Aptech Computer Systems. Execuvue utilizes the newest Cognos technology to enable users to customize information delivery for Blackberry, email, or dashboards so each stakeholder sees one version of the truth in a format suited to their individual needs. New information delivery options are based on Aptech’s years of experience in the hotel industry. “We understand that corporate asset managers, investors, property GMs, revenue directors and regional controllers all want specific information delivered at different times in different formats. The new Execuvue version has the flexibility to enables this.”
Roll-Based information delivery
Aptech’s knowledge of industry requirements and its mastery of Cognos’ new technology are the keys to Execuvue’s latest BI innovations. “Roll-based” delivery is at the heart of Execuvue’s new customized reporting options. Roll-base delivery customization makes it possible for investors, executives, managers and staff to receive Execuvue’s BI analysis when and how they want it. Flexible delivery options take into account that each company has its own policies and has the ability to adapt to nearly any variety of delivery requirements. For example:
Property GMs – Can elect to receive audited performance data and labor numbers once each day
Regional controllers – May have a customized daily flash reports emailed first thing each morning
Revenue managers – Can get STR comp set and property performance data weekly
Investors – May opt to receive property or entity performance every morning on their Blackberry
Asset managers – Can have property-group flash, labor data and P/L output delivered in the form of a color coded dashboard daily.
With customized roll-based reporting, each person on the team can request the data they choose to receive, its frequency and even the delivery method. While emailed reports are commonly used to distribute BI information products today, managers now have the option to begin their day with a color coded dashboard on their desktop that displays green, yellow, and red performance indicators for rapid response to the day’s business changes. Performance data may also now be formatted and sent to Blackberry users for faster response to business dynamics while executives are traveling.
Hospitality experience and solid technology drives innovation
Aptech’s knowledge of hospitality industry requirements and its partnership with Cognos provide a powerful combination for any hotel company. Getting the right information to the right people at the right time in a format they can relate to is the strength the combined solution the new BI solution offers hotel companies.
Aptech will debut its newest version of Execuvue at the HITEC 2008 conference in Austin June 16 – 19. Execuvue provides hotel operators with top to bottom performance information so they can identify and analyze trends and leverage each business cycle. The result is faster, better decisions based on current, accurate information.
Already delivering results
Execuvue is already delivering results for many of the largest and most successful hotel companies in the world, including LQ LLC., Extended Stay Hotels, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Innkeepers Hospitality, Ashford Hospitality Trust, Peabody Hotel Group and others.
Aptech Computer Systems
Aptech Computer Systems, Inc., based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, leads the hospitality industry in leveraging change by valuing human relationships and applying technology to solve business problems for people.
Incorporated in 1970, Aptech is a financial and operations technology solutions and service company whose products include state-of-the-art back office, business intelligence and enterprise planning products: Profitvue, Execuvue, Webvue and Targetvue. Over 2,500 properties, including very large chains, multiple-property management companies and single-site hotels, utilize Aptech solutions to understand their financial and operational data. By offering the hotel industry a solid resource of hospitality professionals, and through its proven ability to evolve technology offerings as the market dictates, Aptech is proud to have earned 100% customer loyalty. Execuvue and Profitvue are registered trademarks and MyExecuvue is registered to Aptech Computer Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are owned by their respective holders.
CONTACTS:
Aptech Computer Systems
Cam Troutman, Director of Sales
135 Delta Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15238
Phone: 800-245-0720 or (412) 963-7440
Email: vueinfo @ aptech-inc.com
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