Cognos, an IBM company, and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), the collective bargaining representative for all active Major League Baseball players, has selected IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer to help analyze data.
BURLINGTON, Mass. (Business Wire EON) March 28, 2008 --
Cognos, an IBM company, and the world leader in business
intelligence and performance
management solutions, today announced that the Major League Baseball
Players Association (MLBPA), the collective bargaining representative
for all active Major League Baseball players, has selected IBM Cognos
TM1 Executive Viewer to help analyze data.
As one of its key activities in representing players, the MLBPA assists
the approximately 1,200 members and their agents with the analysis of
player performance statistics. IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer, being
implemented with the help of Cognos partner Decision Systems, will now
provide hundreds of agents with self-service views and reports. The
solution will also enable the agents to perform ad hoc analysis on
different scenarios with nearly immediate answers.
IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer provides users real-time Web access to
OLAP databases for advanced ad-hoc analysis as well as distributed
reporting. Power users and non-power users alike can gain insight into
their business by exploring data from any perspective, generating graphs
and charts, and reporting results and options immediately.
“Our analysis of player performance is as
complex and dynamic as the work of high-powered business analysts in
Fortune 500 companies, and we need to use the same robust, flexible
interface to achieve reliable results,” said
Doyle Pryor, Assistant General Counsel of the MLBPA. “Conducting
complex analysis in real-time allows us to improve our planning
processes and IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer enables the agents
themselves to view reports and perform almost limitless ‘what-if’
scenarios for further analysis of the data.”
“The interface for analysis will provide
sophisticated users with the tools they’re
familiar with and the ability to quickly modify views and reports with
as little effort as possible,” said Doug
Barton, vice president, product marketing, Cognos, an IBM Company. “Users
of IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer continue to gravitate to its features
that provide interactivity, immediacy, and flexibility, which, in turn,
enable them to accelerate the management of their business’s
performance.”
About The MLBPA:
The Major League Baseball Players Association (www.MLBPLAYERS.com)
is the collective bargaining representative for all professional
baseball players of the thirty Major League Baseball teams and serves as
the exclusive group licensing agent for commercial and licensing
activities involving active Major League baseball players. On behalf of
its members, it operates the Players Choice licensing program and
Players Choice Awards, which benefit the needy through the Major League
Baseball Players Trust, a charitable foundation established and run
entirely by Major League baseball players.
About Decision Systems:
Decision Systems Inc. is a consulting and technology company
specializing in business performance management (BPM), business
analytics, data mining and data warehousing.
Decision Systems has established partnerships with Cognos, Microsoft and
Oracle to deliver “best-of-breed”
solutions to Fortune 1000 clients. The MLBPA is the latest client to
benefit from the customized technology solutions the company has been
providing since 1989. For more information, visit the Decision Systems
Web site at http://www.decisionsystems.com.
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 ULC, an IBM Company, in the United States and/or other countries.
IBM and the IBM logo are trademarks of International Business Machines
Corporation in the United States, or other countries, or both. 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
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