With over one and a half million seats in thousands of companies world-wide, Cognos, is the leading vendor of enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions for e-business. Cognos has now announced the availability of its Web-based multidimensional managed reporting and ad hoc query (see earlier press release issued today: http://www.cognos.com/whatsnew/rel276.html), filly integrated within the Cognos enterprise BI platform and including the BI portal, a common security model and common meta data management.
A dominant force on the Web, Cognos offers award-winning services and support, industry expertise and a strategic approach to enterprise business intelligence. Its Web-based solutions now account for over half of its business intelligence software sales. By transforming the way they manage business processes and relationships with customers, suppliers and partners, Cognos customers have benefited greatly by embracing e-business and the flexibility of the Web.
Ernex Marketing Technologies Inc., recently recognised by Information Week as one of the world`s top 100 e-businesses, provides customers like Nike, Levis and Superstar with the ability to develop and offer exciting, interactive marketing programs for their clientele. Using Cognos` Enterprise Reporting solution for e-business, Emex enables its customers to understand and analyse the performance of their electronic marketing programs through a portal on the Emex Web site. The sophisticated reporting and analysis capabilities of the Cognos solution enable Emex customers to identify hidden trends in their customer data and track valuable customer relationships in real time.
"At Emex, we are committed to adopting leading-edge information technology that allows us to make our customers more successful while allowing us to derive competitive advantage from our own e-business implementation," said Malcolm Fowler, Emex`s vice president of business development. "Cognos` Web-based solutions enable our customers to quickly, easily and insightfully dig into their data and extract business-critical information that simply wasn`t available to them in the past."
"Competitive advantage is the clear goal as more and more companies transform themselves by embracing e-business," said Tom Camps, Cognos vice president of market strategies. "Business processes and business relationships are being fundamentally altered at an incredible pace. Only Cognos has an end-to-end solution that starts with data collection and ends with a superb integrated Web BI solution. This allows us to deliver more manageable and functional business intelligence solutions that can integrate and facilitate business-to-business BI for e-business across the entire distributed and extended enterprise."
Cognos Enterprise BI
Cognos enterprise BI harnesses the power of the Web to deliver information across the enterprise and externally via extranets or the Internet to support traditional and e-business processes. More than just the scaling up of a departmental solution, Cognos enterprise BI integrates application data for decision-making across the organisation. This provides people with easy access to information and powerful ways to analyse it and ensures that organisations can continually measure and improve business performance. Companies can co-ordinate decision-making across the extended enterprise that includes customers, suppliers, and partners.
The Cognos enterprise BI solution (see press release issued earlier today: http://www.cognos.com/whatsnew/rel276.html) addresses the full range of customer needs from proactive managed reporting and self-service ad hoc interaction against both OLAP (online analytical processing) and relational data sources in addition to business performance scorecarding, high-end visualisations and business performance management reports. All of this is managed within a rich portal environment providing users with a single Web-based point of personalised access to Cognos BI information and non-BI content. Additionally, the BI portal provides Information Technology (IT) departments with a single point of delivery and management of content.
Cognos provides a complete infrastructure for building BI solutions designed to meet the challenges of enterprise and e-business deployments. This includes five integrated service layers:
Portal Services provide a single point of personalised access to BI and non-B I content to users and a single point of delivery and management of this content to IT.
Enterprise BI Services include enterprise scalable BI servers (UNIX and NT). These services contain the market-leading BI servers: PowerPlay (Analysis), and Impromptu (Reporting) as well as new Cognos servers: Cognos Query (Query) and Cognos Visualizer (Visualization).
Meta Data Services provide a central place to create and manage business intelligence meta data and business rules. Using Meta Data Services, a single meta data model can be created that spans all enterprise data sources and all enterprise BI applications, thereby, ensuring consistency and accuracy of information across the enterprise.
BI Data Mart Creation Services encompasses BI mart modelling, transformation, and creation that supports shared, conformed cross-enterprise dimensions.
Common Security Services enables IT to manage and maintain users and user classes for all Cognos products. With this common security layer users will only need to log in once.
Cognos is the leading vendor of enterprise business intelligence solutions. Business Intelligence software makes corporate data easily accessible to everyone in an organisation, so they can better co-ordinate 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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