Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced the winners of its 2007 Global Partner Awards. With close to 120 awards, Cognos recognized partners from across North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and EMEA for excelling at innovation, influence, and thought-leadership in performance management. The winners were announced at the Partner Summit Awards ceremony held this week at the Global Partner Summit as part of Cognos Forum 2007.
ORLANDO, Fla. (BusinessWire EON) May 18, 2007 --
Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business
intelligence and performance
management solutions, today announced the winners of its 2007 Global
Partner Awards. With close to 120 awards, Cognos recognized partners
from across North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East
and EMEA for excelling at innovation, influence, and thought-leadership
in performance management. The winners were announced at the Partner
Summit Awards ceremony held this week at the Global Partner Summit as
part of Cognos Forum 2007.
“Cognos is the only true independent
performance management player in the market, with global reach and
leading solutions enabled by a broad ecosystem of partners,”
said Mel Zeledon, senior vice president, global alliances, Cognos. “Together,
we provide the products, services and technology to help customers drive
performance management, lower implementation risk and generate better
profitability. The Global Partner Awards underscore our commitment to
the long-term success of our global partner network across various
industries, applications, and geographic locations.”
Highlighted categories and winners of the Global Partner Awards include:
Global System Integrator Partner of the Year: BearingPoint
BearingPoint was selected as Global SI Partner of the Year
because of its commitment to Cognos training and certification,
leadership in recommending Cognos to their customers and
extensive investment in developing industry-focused solutions. Last
year, BearingPoint was Cognos’ fastest growing
GSI partnership and the firm helped co-develop the Cognos 8 migration
methodology, which is emblematic of BearingPoint’s
depth of understanding and commitment to Cognos.
Global Technology Partner of the Year: Teradata
With more than 175 joint customers from various industries, Teradata was
selected as Technology Partner of the Year for applying its data
warehousing solutions to help businesses make better business decisions
through a comprehensive, single view of business performance. Working
together to offer a complete performance management platform, Teradata
and Cognos align and enable strategic and operational decision-making
capabilities across the enterprise by providing scalability, broad user
reach, standardized reporting, self-service, and proven results.
Global Alliance Partner of the Year: IBM
IBM was selected as Global Alliance Partner of the Year for its
key strategic alliance with Cognos that has resulted in several
successful joint solutions including the Crime Data Warehouse, Risk
Cockpit, and Workforce Analytics. Through the application and support of
Cognos technology, IBM is helping Cognos’
clients deliver innovative solutions that solve their industry-specific
business challenges. Joint customer successes this year included BCBS of
Tennessee, NYPD, First Citizens Bank and Freightliner.
Reseller Partners of the Year: HugurAx (Sweden), Lantares Europe
(Spain), novem business applications GmbH (Germany), IBS (Central and
Eastern Europe), Hallemeesch & Coulter (Belgium), 2B Consulting
(France), Atlantic Technologies (Italy), Synergy Computing (South
Africa), Inca Software (United Kingdom), Business Systems Group (Middle
East), DSS de México (Latin America),
NetPartners (Latin America), CBH (North America), Focus, Bistech, and
Efab (Australia) .
Services Partners of the Year: Ibermatica S.A. (Spain),
Synergetics MIC GmbH (Germany), UNILOG-Logica CMG (France), iCentric
Consulting (South Africa), Atos Origin (United Kingdom), Softtek (South
America), Niteo Partners (North America).
For more information about the Cognos Partner Program and a review of
the complete list of award winners, please visit www.cognos.com/partners/index.html
Cognos Partner Summit 2007 attracted more than 400 global attendees to
discuss best practices, share selling solutions, and network with their
peers to learn how to increase selling effectiveness. For more
information about the event, visit www.cognos.com/cognosforum/partnersummit.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. All
other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
companies.
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