Cognos surpassed the one-millionth-seat mark in mid-October and will reveal the name of the one-million-seat customer at a later date. With more than a million seats sold, a complete family of award-winning business intelligence software and a company infrastructure geared to providing the highest quality service and support on a worldwide basis, Cognos is the recognized innovator and leader in the business intelligence market. The one-million-seat milestone is not only an indication of Cognos` market leadership but of the widespread acceptance of business intelligence as a key business solution.
"The sale of the one-millionth business intelligence seat is a milestone for Cognos and one of many in a long series of firsts for us. We were the first to recognize business intelligence as a distinct and viable market. Now, we are leading a market which has exploded beyond IT and power users to all workers within an enterprise," said Ron Zambonini, Cognos president and CEO.
"Cognos is proud to have led the development of enterprise business intelligence technology and now its ascent into mainstream business practice. We are witnessing not only a broad market growth but also a remarkable increase in the sophistication and depth of our user base. The strong market acceptance and success of our Web products is helping us to deploy state-of-the-art business intelligence solutions at an even faster rate, making our second millionth seat even closer."
Cognos award-winning products include PowerPlay for OLAP reporting and multidimensional analysis, Impromptu for enterprise querying and reporting, Scenario for desktop business intelligence mining and 4Thought for forecasting and data modeling. Cognos business intelligence solutions, available via a Web browser or client/server deployment, help executives make better decisions to improve a company`s bottom line.
Cognos customers recognize Cognos` vast experience and leadership in the enterprise business intelligence market. Cognos customer deployments include such companies as:
The Dow Chemical Company: A leading chemical and engineering company, Dow Chemical uses Cognos PowerPlay and Impromptu to access secured data from multiple departments, including sales, finance and logistics.
NASA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is using Cognos PowerPlay and Impromptu to quantify human resource data.
Welch`s: A manufacturer of grapes, jams and jellies is deploying an innovative intranet using Cognos PowerPlay and PowerPlay Server Web Edition. This allows employees to access sales and marketing information instantly from their desktops.
Ford Visteon: The automotive manufacturer uses Cognos PowerPlay and Impromptu for quality assurance, identifying and correcting quality problems that could require costly warranty repairs.
Chase Manhattan: One of the largest banks and financial services organizations in the world, uses PowerPlay and Impromptu for cross-sell analysis.
The one-millionth-seat customer is currently being notified. The owner of the one-millionth-seat will receive a show of appreciation, including a custom Business Intelligence University course to be held on site at their corporate headquarters.
Cognos is the leading strategic supplier of enterprise business intelligence tools, allowing users to easily extract critical information through data access, reporting, analysis and forecasting. Cognos products consistently deliver the highest productivity gains to the user, the most manageable solution to the administrator, and the fastest return on investment (ROI) to the enterprise.
Cognos also develops, markets and supports software tools for enterprise application development.
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