Cognos, the leading strategic vendor of business intelligence solutions, has announced that its products were among the first to meet the technical requirements of Oracle`s new product certification program. Cognos` business intelligence solutions received the "e-certified" warehouse designation by meeting the stringent integration requirements of the program as conducted by the independent laboratory VeriTest.
Oracle`s product certification enables customers to distinguish software applications that easily integrate with Oracle`s e-business warehouse solutions. The certification program is designed for those companies in the business intelligence and data warehousing area that have demonstrated their products integration with Oracle`s Warehouse products. VeriTest has been providing independent and objective testing for the program since November of 1998.
"Cognos` business intelligence solutions seamless integration with the Oracle Warehouse provides our mutual customers with award winning analysis and reporting capabilities across the enterprise," said Ralph Pecker, managing director, Cognos SA. "Our products, combined with the Oracle Warehouse, provide centralized report distribution which enables IT to spend less time and money creating, deploying and maintaining reporting environments. Users receive a comprehensive view of data across the organization, reducing costs, increasing return on investment and helping managers make better business decisions."
"This certification demonstrates Cognos` commitment to Oracle technology and proves to customers that this is a best-of-breed business intelligence solution," said Michael Howard, vice president, Data Warehouse Program Office at Oracle Corp. "Product certification helps ensure that customers selecting these products can focus on the long-term benefits of data warehousing and spend less time on product testing and integration."
Oracle Warehouse is designed to offer companies all the resources they need to design, build, use and maintain a data warehouse. Oracle Warehouse includes the following technology and service components as part of it integrated solution:
A proven technology foundation
A set of analytic applications that deliver end-user and executive value
Professional services
Partner expertise
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Cognos is the leading vendor of enterprise business intelligence solutions. Business intelligence software makes corporate data easily accessible to everyone in an organization, so they can better coordinate decision-making across the entire enterprise, and improve the performance of the business. Cognos products are available directly from Cognos and through an extensive network of channel partners. The Company also develops, markets and supports software tools for application development.
Founded in 1969, Cognos is a publicly traded company with offices around the world and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
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