Cognos, a business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) solutions vendor, and Deloitte, a charter member of the Cognos Global Partner program, announced their strategic alliance continues to extend performance management excellence to customers worldwide.
Hundreds of joint customers, including Austrian Ministry of Finance, BW Offshore, the Forestry Commission in the UK, have leveraged the technology expertise, methodology and practical industry knowledge from the Cognos-Deloitte alliance to implement performance management solutions for better decision-making within their organisations.
Deloitte works collaboratively with clients to successfully deploy Cognos solutions, by assisting in project elements ranging from business requirements assessments and design to project management and execution.
As a Cognos Global Alliance partner, Deloitte has successfully implemented Cognos performance management solutions, including Cognos Business Intelligence, Cognos Planning and Cognos Controller at more than 150 customer sites worldwide.
"Deloitte and Cognos continually strive to offer clients faster and more efficient ways of navigating today's competitive terrain, and solutions that ensure integrated performance management throughout their organisations," says Raymond Pineda, Deloitte partner and Canadian Performance Management Practice Leader.
"Cognos' enabling technology combined with Deloitte's thought leadership and leading practices are helping our mutual customers harness corporate data to help them see what's driving their business, so they can make faster, more informed business decisions."
To accelerate time to value and success for joint customers, Cognos and Deloitte have collaborated to produce solutions for various industry and department areas, including:
Deloitte's Integrated Performance Management (IPM), a structured management approach for translating strategic objectives into operational results through a lens focused on value creation. The Close, Consolidate, Report Blueprint, a Powered by Cognos solution, which helps companies quickly address gaps and weaknesses in the financial close process, make focused investments, and optimise the use of technology.
The Supply Chain Performance Accelerator, a Powered by Cognos solution for supply chain planning and reporting that helps organisations optimise their supplier operations.
"The alliance between Cognos and Deloitte offers a unique combination of deep industry expertise with best-in-class performance management capabilities," says David McWilliam, managing director of Cognos South Africa.
"Together, we successfully help customers deploy the right performance management solution to fit their needs, while streamlining and maximising their BI technology investments. We provide a compelling solution for any company looking to improve decision-making, performance management and add value to their daily operations."
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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 organisation'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.
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