IBM BI Software : Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Capabilities
IBM® Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of BI capabilities: Reporting, Analysis, Dashboarding and Scorecards on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Author, share and use reports that draw on data across all enterprise sources for better business decisions.
Dashboards
Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.
Scorecarding
Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets.
For more IBM Business Intelligence Software, Cognos 8 BI Software, IBM BI Application, visit IBM.com
24 October 2009
IBM BI Software - Cognos 8 Dashboards & Scorecards
IBM BI Software - Cognos 8 Analysis
IBM BI Software : Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Capabilities
IBM® Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of BI capabilities: Reporting, Analysis, Dashboarding and Scorecards on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Author, share and use reports that draw on data across all enterprise sources for better business decisions.
Analysis
Analysis enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business, regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.
For more information visit IBM Business Intelligence Software, IBM Cognos 8 BI Software at IBM.com
Cognos 8 Reporting - IBM BI Software
IBM BI Software : Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Capabilities
IBM® Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence delivers the complete range of BI capabilities: Reporting, Analysis, Dashboarding and Scorecards on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Author, share and use reports that draw on data across all enterprise sources for better business decisions.
Reporting
Reporting gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any data source and operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of benefits such as multilingual reporting, ad hoc query, and scheduling and bursting.
Source: IBM Business Intelligence Software, IBM Cognos BI Software information at IBM.com
26 March 2009
BI News - IBM Adds Data-Warehousing Toolls to Informix
Business Intelligence News : IBM adds data-warehousing tools to Informix
IBM is trying to make its Informix OLTP (online transaction processing) server a more potent option for BI (business intelligence) ...
Topics : IBM Business Intellience Solutions, BI News, IBM Data Warehousing Tools, Informix Software
21 February 2008
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Extend BI: Events and Alerts
IBM Business Intelligence BI Software : Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Extend BI: Events and Alerts
Cognos 8 BI business event management tracks significant events that need attention. It monitors these events and uses decision-process and business-process automation to compress the time to action and resolution.
Definition of events and tasks Using event conditions and agents, specify the events to be monitored and the tasks to manage them.
Decision-based issue resolution
- Users are notified of events via email alerts or through dynamic Web portal headlines.
- Provide contextual event information by embedding or linking reports, metrics, and event history.
- Through multiple-alert messaging, ensure that a single event results in different messages being generated for all affected issue owners.
Business-process issue resolution
Event lifecycle tracking
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Extend BI: Cognos 8 Go! Search
IBM Business Intelligence BI Software : Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Extend BI: Cognos 8 Go! Search
Cognos 8 Go! Search enables everyday users to find reports, scorecards, and other content created in Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.
Increase business intelligence adoption rates
Cognos 8 Go! Search belongs to the Cognos 8 Go! family of consumer modes designed to help you increase business intelligence user adoption rates within your organization.
These consumer modes let users view and consume BI content using familiar applications or devices, such as a BlackBerry®, search engine, MS Office application, or Web browser.
Cognos 8 Go! Search provides users with a familiar, browser-based search bar, sophisticated ranking of results, and the ability to easily fine-tune those results.
Source: For more information, please visit http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/go-search.html
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Extend BI: Cognos 8 Go! Office
IBM Business Intelligence BI Software : Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Extend BI: Cognos 8 Go! Office
Cognos 8 Go! Office lets you view and consume with Cognos business intelligence content within Microsoft® Office applications such as PowerPoint® Excel® and Word®.
Increase business intelligence adoption rates
Cognos 8 Go! Office belongs to the Cognos 8 Go! family of consumer modes designed to help you increase business intelligence user adoption rates within your organization.
These consumer modes let users interact with BI content using familiar applications or devices, such as a BlackBerry®, search engine, Microsoft® Office application, or Web browser.
Cognos 8 Go! Office eliminates users' need to cut and paste or manually load data into spreadsheets or presentations. This saves time, prevents errors, and allows users to focus on making decisions rather than data entry.
Source: For more information, please visit http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/ms-office.html
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Cognos 8 Go! Mobile
IBM Business Intelligence BI Software : Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Cognos 8 Go! Mobile
Cognos 8 Go! Mobile extends the value of the proven Cognos 8 Business Intelligence architecture by providing users with access to timely, secure, and personalized information on their mobile devices and operating systems, including BlackBerry®, Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 wireless.
Increase business intelligence adoption rates
Cognos 8 Go! Mobile is the latest addition to the Cognos 8 Go! family of consumer modes designed to help you increase business intelligence user adoption rates within your organization.
These consumer modes let users view and consume BI content using familiar applications or on mobile devices, search engines, MS Office applications, or a Web browser.
With Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, users can increase their productivity and improve their decision-making when working remotely by accessing operational and strategic information about customer orders, product performance, and more.
Source: For more information, please visit http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/go-mobile.html
20 February 2008
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence BI Scorecarding
IBM Business Intelligence BI Software: Cognos 8 Business Intelligence BI Scorecarding
Scorecarding helps you align your teams and tactics with strategy, communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets.
More user communities Use scorecard portlets to access and communicate scorecard content and encourage a broader use across your organization.
Ensure ownership and accountability for performance
Align decisions and tactics with strategy
Implement your strategy and execute against it
Simple deployment and administration
- Recalibrate targets in response to changes in performance with integrated planning capabilities.
- Multilingual: metrics can be populated in any language and then displayed in users' preferred language.
- Single sign-on dialog box.
- Use three and five-state status indicators and plan vs. actual data to reveal progress against targets.
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence BI Dashboards
Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together.
Cognos offers the full range of dashboards — operational, tactical, strategic — to help you monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance.
You can deploy Cognos dashboards as a standalone application or as a core element of an enterprise business intelligence or performance management platform.
Information-rich, visually appealing displays
Track core operational processes with continuous data refreshes.
Benefits:
- Monitor operational processes as they happen.
- Get immediate visibility into key performance indicators (KPIs) for corrective action and rapid decision-making.
- Enable exception-based decisions with alerts.
- Provide links to associated reports.
- Self-serve authoring & editing.
Tactical dashboards
Run against data marts or data warehouses to track departmental processes and projects.
Benefits:
Strategic dashboards/Scorecards
Monitor execution of corporate strategic objectives at each level of the organization.
Benefits:
- Track progress against strategic corporate goals
- Map key connections among departments and cause-and-effect relationships between or across departments.
- Support management methodologies including Balanced Scorecard, TQM, Six Sigma, etc.
Drill-down to reports and analysis for additional information or context.
18 February 2008
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Analysis
Analysis enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business, regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources.
For those who want to explore and perform multidimensional analysis on Cognos 8 BI data in their spreadsheet, there is Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel®
With the analysis capability, you can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users.
More targeted information
- Harness a business-friendly tool for OLAP cube building to analyze your data and leverage the platform and security of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.
More user communities
- Share and leverage datasets optimized for exploration and analysis within your business.
Robust analysis tools
- Perform complex analysis quickly and easily to get to the “why” behind an event or action to improve business performance.
- Analyze what's driving your business with data organized in logical categories such as fiscal periods, sales regions, and product groups.
- Move from summary level to transaction level detail, or from one PowerCube™ to another to find exactly the information you are looking for.
- Sophisticated time trending with built-in customizable time series lets you analyze what has changed over previous years, quarters, months, and other critical measures.
Multi-dimensional modeling capabilities
- Support for all data sources.
- Comprehensive logging and check points.
- Automated cube builds.
- Centralized security and administration provide optimal manageability for IT.
- Time-dependant processing.
- Alternate drill paths.
- Distinct category counts.
- Time-based partitioned PowerCubes create a flexible design environment that streamlines development and enhances ROI.
Easy to use
- Explore large complex data sets using drag-and-drop techniques. Drill down through increasing levels of detail, and view by different dimensions such as sales per region or by product.
- View and analyze data relationships graphically and change displays easily. End-users can easily drill down, rank, sort, forecast, and nest information to gain greater insight into trends, causes, and effects.
- A common XML-based report format means that a report can be opened in whatever client suits a user’s needs.
- User-friendly interface makes multidimensional analysis simple for all users, regardless of their business or technical level.
- The Windows, Web, and Excel clients mean that users can work within a familiar environment—maximizing ROI and decreasing training costs.
- Import and manipulate BI content in Office.
Easy to deploy
- Convert one billion consolidated rows and two million categories from multiple data sources into compact PowerCubes™ ready for analysis.
- Seamless integration with third-party cubes and OLAP servers lets you maximize return on Oracle, Microsoft, SAP BW, and IBM resources you already own; as well as dimensionally modeled relational sources.
- Process and summarize data in the application layer and only return results at a summary level.
17 February 2008
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Reporting
IBM Business Intelligence BI Software : Cognos 8 Business Intelligence - Reporting
Reporting gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any data source, and operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of benefits such as multilingual reporting.
With the reporting capability, you can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users.
More targeted information Use tabbed portlet pages to navigate across multi-style, multi-page reports with critical information.
More user communities
- Allow business analysts to quickly and intuitively create and format statement-style reports with live data with the express authoring mode.
Complete reporting coverage
- User interface supports 10+ languages; reports delivered in 25+ languages.
- Multiple export formats: Excel, PDF, XML, HTML, and CSV.
- Flexible distribution methods: centralized access, email, application integration, and Office.
- A single architecture for viewing, querying, analyzing, and authoring for collaborative contributions to any report including dashboards.
- Report against any heterogeneous data source.
- Web-based deployment.
Advanced authoring capabilities
- Intuitive and accessible self-service report authoring.
- Federated queries.
- Adaptive layout adjusts automatically when objects are added, moved, or removed.
- Embed live applications, Web sites, and non-BI content within a report.
- Drag-and-drop authoring incorporates data, text, charts, graphs, and images.
- Edit reports with prompts and toolbar commands.
- Interactive visualizations and charting abilities.
- Work with data using familiar business terms.
- Use a variety of charts: crosstabs, bar/3D bar, pie/doughnut, line, gauge, funnel, scatter, dot density, waterfall, and more.
- Create complex, multi-page layouts using different data sources without programming or workarounds.
- Conditional suppression and automatic calculations
12 February 2008
IBM Completes Acquisition Of Cognos
Business Intelligence BI Software : IBM Completes Acquisition Of Cognos
ARMONK, NY, January 31, 2008–IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has completed its acquisition of Cognos® (NASDAQ: COGN) (TSX: CSN), a publicly-held company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. IBM will reveal its business strategy for the Cognos acquisition during a press briefing on February 6.
IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Cognos on November 12, 2007. IBM acquired Cognos to accelerate its Information on Demand strategy, a cross-company initiative that combines IBM's strength in information integration, content and data management and business consulting services to unlock the business value of information.
Through this acquisition, IBM and Cognos will become the leading provider of technology and services for business intelligence and performance management, delivering the industry’s most complete, open standards-based platform with the broadest range of expertise to help companies expand the value of their information, optimize their business processes and maximize performance across their enterprises.
The Cognos acquisition supports both IBM’s acquisition strategy and capital allocation model, and will contribute to the achievement of the company’s objective for earnings-per-share growth through 2010. To date, IBM has announced 25 strategic acquisitions in support of its global Information on Demand effort.
Additional information about IBM’s Information on Demand strategy is available at: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/information-on-demand/. For more details about the combination of IBM and Cognos see: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/info/cognos.
Source: http://www.cognos.com/news/releases/2008/0131-2.html
Cognos Positioned In Leaders Quadrant In New Analyst Report
Business Intelligence BI Software : Cognos Positioned In Leaders Quadrant In New Analyst Report
BURLINGTON, Mass., February 1, 2008– Cognos, an IBM company, and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced it is positioned in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s new 2008 Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant.* Gartner evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Enterprise customers and midsize organizations have long relied on Cognos’ proven business intelligence capabilities on top of their transaction systems to reduce costs, improve customer service, streamline reporting and operations and deliver higher-value information to improve decision-making and increase user productivity.
“We view this placement as representative of the continued innovation and industry leadership we provide in the business intelligence and performance management market,” said Dave Laverty, vice-president, Worldwide Marketing, Business Intelligence and Performance Management, Cognos. “With Cognos’ full-range of BI and performance management user capabilities on a single enterprise-class platform, our customers are able to leverage trusted information and move from process automation to optimize business performance for competitive advantage.”
Cognos has also been positioned in Gartner's 2007 Corporate Performance Management Suites Magic Quadrant. View these reports, compliments of Cognos, at http://www.cognos.com/news/analyst_reviews.html.
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with groundbreaking capabilities to better manage performance by delivering a consistent, accurate view of all business information. As a complete, flexible product, IBM Cognos 8 BI easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources. Its simplified BI environment improves user adoption, enables better decision-making, and provides a robust foundation for departmental BI, enterprise BI and performance management.
*Sources: Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008, by J. Richardson, K. Schlegel, B. Hostmann, N. McMurchy, February 2, 2008. Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for CPM Suites, 2007" by Nigel Rayner et al, December 19, 2007.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted December 2007 and January 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendor’s measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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.
Source: http://www.cognos.com/news/releases/2008/0204.html
Global Partner Community Supports IBM Acquisition Of Cognos
Business Intelligence BI Software : Global Partner Community Supports IBM Acquisition Of Cognos
New York, NY– February 6, 2008–Alliance, technology and channel partners worldwide expressed their support of IBM’s acquisition of Cognos in statements following the January 31, 2008 announcement regarding the completion of the purchase of Cognos by IBM (NYSE: IBM).
“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.
Source: http://www.cognos.com/news/releases/2008/0206.html
18 January 2008
IBM to Acquire Cognos to Accelerate Information on Demand Business Initiative
Business Intelligence Software - IBM to Acquire Cognos to Accelerate Information on Demand Business Initiative
ARMONK, N.Y. & OTTAWA, Ontario - 12 Nov 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Cognos® (NASDAQ: COGN) (TSX: CSN) today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Cognos, a publicly-held company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $5 billion USD or $58 USD per share, with a net transaction value of $4.9 billion USD. The acquisition is subject to Cognos shareholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. It is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008.
The acquisition of Cognos supports IBM's Information on Demand strategy, a cross-company initiative announced on February 16, 2006 that combines IBM's strength in information integration, content and data management and business consulting services to unlock the business value of information. Integrating Cognos, the 23rd IBM acquisition in support of its Information on Demand strategy, will enable new business insights to be delivered to a broader set of people across an organization, beyond the traditional users of business intelligence.
IBM said the acquisition fits squarely within both its acquisition strategy and capital allocation model, and that it will contribute to the achievement of the company’s objective for earnings-per-share growth through 2010.
“Customers are demanding complete solutions, not piece parts, to enable real-time decision making," said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group. "IBM has been providing Business Intelligence solutions for decades. Our broad set of capabilities – from data warehousing to information integration and analytics – together with Cognos, position us well for the changing Business Intelligence and Performance Management industry. We chose Cognos because of its industry-leading technology that is based on open standards, which complements IBM's Service Oriented Architecture strategy.”
Together, IBM and Cognos will become the leading provider of technology and services for Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management, delivering the industry’s most complete, open standards-based platform with the broadest range of expertise to help companies expand the value of their information, optimize their business processes and maximize performance across their enterprises.
The acquisition of Cognos accelerates IBM’s global Information on Demand initiative to unlock the business value of information for our customers. IBM will provide broader reach for Cognos solutions across multiple industries and geographies with a more complete set of offerings, including consulting services, hardware, and other middleware software.
Cognos provides the only complete BI and performance management platform, fully integrated on an open-standards-based service oriented architecture (SOA), and has a strong history of supporting heterogeneous application environments, consistent with IBM’s approach. With Cognos, customers can turn data into actionable insight for coordinated, information-driven decision-making to improve overall performance. Cognos will also extend IBM’s reach further into the CFO office with powerful financial planning and consolidation capabilities.
“This is an exciting combination for our customers, partners, and employees. It provides us with the ability to expand our vision as the leading BI and Performance Management provider,” said Rob Ashe, president and chief executive officer, Cognos. “IBM is a perfect complement to our strategy, with minimal overlap in products, a broad range of technology synergies, and the resources, reach, and world-class services to accelerate this vision. Furthermore, this combination allows Cognos customers to leverage a broader set of solutions from IBM to advance their information management driven initiatives.”
Together, IBM and Cognos will expand IBM’s ability to provide customers with the right information they need when they need it, to optimize operational performance, and to quickly respond to changing market demands. The combination of IBM’s information management technology and Cognos will also help organizations discover new ways to use trusted information spread across their enterprises to identify new business opportunities and significantly reduce the expense and time required to address industry-specific business challenges.
Following completion of the acquisition, IBM intends to integrate Cognos as a group within IBM's Information Management Software division, focused on Business Intelligence and Performance Management. IBM also will appoint current Cognos President and CEO, Rob Ashe, to lead the group, reporting directly to General Manager, Ambuj Goyal.
Cognos has approximately 4,000 employees worldwide and serves more than 25,000 customers. IBM and Cognos have partnered for more than 15 years, with extensive technical integrations and eight pre-integrated joint solutions already supporting many joint customers, such as New York City Police Department, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee, Canadian Tire, MetLife, and Bayer UK.
Other strategic acquisitions in support of IBM’s Information on Demand initiative include Princeton Softech (data archiving and compliance), FileNet (enterprise content management), Ascential Software (information integration), DataMirror (changed data capture), SRD (entity analytics), Trigo (product information management), DWL (customer information management) and Alphablox (analytics).
About IBM
For more information about IBM’s Information on Demand strategy, go to: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/information-on-demand/. Additional details about the combination of IBM and Cognos are available at: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/info/cognos
About Cognos
For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at: http://www.cognos.com/
Source: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22572.wss
06 January 2008
IBM to acquire Cognos
Business Intelligence Software Vendores : IBM to acquire Cognos
Accelerates Information on Demand initiative with business intelligence and performance management
On November 12, 2007 IBM announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Cognos. Cognos is a recognized industry leader and one of the largest providers of business intelligence and performance management solutions, with more than 25,000 customers and over 3,000 partners. Together, IBM and Cognos will become the industry's leading provider of technology and services for Business Intelligence and Performance Management.
Business Intelligence is the top priority for CIOs and Performance Management is a top priority for CFOs, driving a requirement for a common platform to improve overall enterprise performance. Companies demand solutions that provide a single, trusted view of their business to drive real-time strategic and operational intelligence to a wide range of internal and external users.
Cognos provides the only complete BI and performance management platform, fully integrated on an open-standards-based service oriented architecture (SOA), and has a strong history of supporting heterogeneous application environments, consistent with IBM's approach.
The acquisition of Cognos extends IBM's Information On Demand value proposition, providing the industry's leading and most complete solutions for unlocking the business value of information, which will extend IBM's ability to capitalize on emerging business growth opportunities, while IBM's hardware, software and services capabilities and extensive global reach will accelerate delivery of Cognos solutions, enabling our customers to:
- maximize the value of their information
- optimize their business processes
- deliver trusted information in real-time
- achieve higher performance across the enterpris
Source: For more information, please visit http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/info/cognos/
Posts
