Cognos, a business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions vendor, recently announced the winners of its 2007 Global Partner awards.
With close to 120 awards, Cognos recognised 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," says David McWilliam, managing director of Cognos South Africa.
"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.
"We were thrilled to have two of our local partners - Synergy Computing and iCentric Consulting - recognised for their efforts and contributions."
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 its 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, standardised 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. Through the application and support of Cognos technology, IBM is helping Cognos' clients deliver innovative solutions that solve their industry-specific business challenges.
Reseller Partners of the Year: Synergy Computing (South Africa), HugurAx (Sweden), Lantares Europe (Spain), novem business applications GmbH (Germany), IBS (Central and Eastern Europe), Hallemeesch & Coulter (Belgium), 2B Consulting (France), Atlantic Technologies (Italy), Inca Software (United Kingdom), Business Systems Group (Middle East), DSS de M'exico (Latin America), NetPartners (Latin America), CBH (North America), Focus, Bistech, and Efab (Australia) .
Services Partners of the Year: iCentric Consulting (South Africa), Ibermatica SA (Spain), Synergetics MIC GmbH (Germany), UNILOG-Logica CMG (France), Atos Origin (United Kingdom), Softtek (South America), Niteo Partners (North America).
Says Christo Bredenkamp, MD of Synergy Computing, one of the reseller partners of the year: "Cognos has provided us with the ability to implement a world-class performance management solution, which assists our customers to be more competitive by allowing them to make smarter decisions. We have enjoyed a 20-year relationship with Cognos and our long standing relationship is evidence of the value that Cognos provides our organisation and customers. The recognition that we received is rewarding and further reinforces our relationship with Cognos."
Says Marianne Vosloo, MD of iCentric Consulting, one of the named service partners of the year: "The award provided us with recognition for our effectiveness with the Cognos offering. Partnering with a vendor that delivers breadth and depth to the offering in the performance management arena has been an easy choice, ultimately delivering a competitive advantage to our customer base. Recognition from one of the top business intelligence and performance management vendors is an accolade for us."
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.
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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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