Cognos has strengthened its relationship with IBM with the launch of Cognos ReportNet, which offers a Web-based enterprise query and reporting environment, designed to meet the needs of multinational, diversified organisations.
Through the companies` global agreement to market joint offerings, IBM and Cognos offer comprehensive business intelligence offerings that can help customers unite their business information assets, improve corporate performance management (CPM), and drive profitability.
Cognos ReportNet, which is available on IBM`s variant of the Unix operating system, is integrated within the entire Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence solution, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, OLAP analysis, event detection and alerting, and data integration.
The combination of Cognos ReportNet with IBM`s DB2 Universal Database will offer joint customers the benefit of flexible, intuitive data access tools integrated with an automated data management process.
Simon Jeggo, IBM SA data management solutions executive, says: "Cognos ReportNet, in conjunction with DB2 Universal Database, can help organisations uncover hidden relationships, spot key trends, and plan more effective strategies using all their business data. IBM`s continued support of Cognos`s initiatives, including ReportNet, allows our customers to derive business value throughout the business, extending the reach of business intelligence solutions into new and emerging markets."
Cognos is also deepening joint development initiatives with IBM to ensure optimised performance of Cognos business intelligence solutions on the IBM platform.
Patrick O`Leary, VP of strategic alliances at Cognos, says: "Our long-standing relationship with IBM has helped us reach hundreds of thousands of new users in key markets." David McWilliam, MD of Cognos in South Africa, adds: "Cognos has developed an enterprise reporting solution that provides exceptional functionality. With the support of partners like IBM, we can offer our joint customers a business intelligence solution to meet the requirements of today`s enterprises."
In April, Cognos and IBM announced a multi-year global agreement to market business intelligence offerings. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM and Cognos will jointly market and sell integrated solutions to numerous verticals and lines of business such as sales, marketing and human resources.
The IBM and Cognos offering makes use of IBM DB2 Universal Database, DB2 Warehouse Manager, DB2 OLAP Server, IBM WebSphere Internet infrastructure software and IBM WebSphere Portal software, and is available on IBM eServer, pSeries and xSeries systems.
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