Cognos, an IBM company and a 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.(1) Gartner evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
BURLINGTON, Mass. (Business Wire EON) February 4, 2008 --
Cognos, an IBM company and a 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.(1) 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.
(1) 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.
Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and
product information are available at http://www.cognos.com.
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