Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and Cognos LAVA support for the HP Neoview platform. Customers will be able to use Cognos 8 BI and Cognos LAVA to access strategic information stored on HP Neoview to make more informed and effective business decisions.
BURLINGTON, Mass. (BusinessWire EON) April 25, 2007 --
Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business
intelligence and performance
management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and Cognos LAVA support for the HP
Neoview platform. Customers will be able to use Cognos 8 BI and Cognos
LAVA to access strategic information stored on HP Neoview to make more
informed and effective business decisions.
Cognos 8 BI is a groundbreaking product that provides decision makers at
all levels of the enterprise with a consistent, accurate view of
information to better manage performance. As a single product that
easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems
and data sources, Cognos 8 BI is a robust technology foundation for BI
standardization and performance management. By extending the reach of
Cognos 8 BI to include HP Neoview, companies gain access to a new
enterprise-class data warehouse and its powerful, scalable performance
to better improve business intelligence and performance management
initiatives.
Cognos LAVA is the industry’s first BI
appliance and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables
companies to provide up-to-the-minute business information to
operational workers, empowering decision-makers across the organization
to spot emerging trends, immediately take action when problems arise and
positively affect their company’s bottom line.
“With this announcement, Cognos is extending
its commitment by providing customers with the complete range of BI
capabilities – reporting, ad hoc query,
analysis, dashboarding, scorecarding, and event management –
for data in HP Neoview,” said Dave Laverty,
chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Cognos. “Cognos
solutions will help customers access important information on demand,
delivering reports and analytics in minutes or seconds for faster, more
effective business decisions.”
“Customers want help making better decisions
and managing and protecting business-critical information throughout its
lifecycle,” said Ben Barnes, vice president
and general manager, Business Intelligence Group, Software, HP. “By
working with Cognos, HP helps customers leverage the combined strengths
of HP Neoview, Cognos 8 BI and Cognos LAVA to access and act on the
right information assets at the right time.”
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.
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