Business intelligence company, Cognos, has announced it has taken the top market share position in the worldwide business intelligence (BI) tools market, according to 2001 total worldwide software licence and maintenance revenues. This is based on a new report from leading industry analyst firm, IDC.
According to IDC, BI tools include end-user query/reporting, multi-dimensional analysis, data mining, packaged data warehouse, and EIS software tools.
"Cognos has demonstrated solid marketplace momentum with its business intelligence tools," says Henry Morris, Group Vice President for Applications and Information Access, IDC. "Organisations are placing a premium on solutions that help them analyse business performance in order to drive greater efficiencies and opportunity. With the announcement of Cognos Series 7, the company has continued to drive adoption of business intelligence around the world."
"Cognos is focused on winning the BI marketplace in partnership with its customers," says Dave Laverty, senior vice-president at Cognos. "The Cognos commitment to deliver demonstrable enterprise value is continuing to drive our momentum in the marketplace and that commitment is underscored by today`s announcement."
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Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI), delivers software that helps companies improve business performance by enabling effective decision-making at all levels of the organisation. A forerunner in defining the BI software category, Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage Corporate Performance Management (CPM) achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale.
CPM lets organisations measure execution against business strategy to ensure the two are aligned at all levels across the enterprise. Cognos provides a framework for CPM that links people, information, and decision-making processes throughout the organisation, and enables the complete management cycle with integrated software for planning, budgeting, reporting, analysis, and scorecarding.
Cognos` framework for CPM includes:
* Cognos Series 7, which provides an enterprise-scale BI framework supporting a full suite of BI tools that deliver query and reporting, analysis, scorecarding, visualisation, and event detection capabilities.
* A common CPM data foundation model that encapsulates business best practices, integrates a company`s business performance measures, and leverages enterprise data sources.
* Enterprise analytic applications that deliver out-of-the-box, predefined, integrated reporting and analysis across major business functions.
* Cognos Finance, a strategic enterprise planning and budgeting application that supports the management cycle and enables finance professionals to manage all core financial processes within one environment.
Cognos serves more than 19 000 customers in over 120 countries. Cognos business intelligence 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.