Intelligent Enterprise Magazine has awarded its Readers` Choice award for best business monitoring solution to Cognos Metrics Manager, the scorecarding solution from Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management. Award-winning solutions are chosen annually based on feedback from the business intelligence and data warehousing user community.
Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of 80 000 business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision-making, enhance business performance, and maximise the value of customer relationships.
"Cognos Metrics Manager was one of the clear cut winners for this year`s awards," says David Stodder, editor-in-chief of Intelligent Enterprise. "A consistent top performer in our surveys, Cognos continues to address the key imperatives of our readership by delivering return on IT investments for its customers and developing innovative ways to drive intelligence across the extended enterprise."
Metrics Manager is an essential component of corporate performance management. It enables companies to model plans or strategies as a set of inter-connected performance indicators. Organisations use Cognos Metrics Manager to communicate goal-driven metrics to thousands of employees across the organisation and to align employee actions and decisions with strategic corporate goals. Metrics Manager is tightly integrated with the Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence Series and Cognos Enterprise Planning solutions, and enables organisations to monitor, analyse, report and act through the creation, management, presentation and delivery of metrics.
"It is a great honour to be named a winner for this prestigious award and a testament to the strong market uptake Metrics Manager continues to attract," says Karen Williams, Cognos VP of product marketing. "It indicates that our customers continue to be satisfied with our product innovation, lifecycle, support and professional services. Organisations continue to use Cognos Metrics Manager as their scorecarding solution of choice, to link corporate strategy to individual execution and drive performance management across the enterprise."
In January, Cognos took over the number one spot in Intelligent Enterprise`s 12 Most Influential Companies. Commonly referred to as "The Dozen", this highly anticipated annual editorial selection is determined by the key editorial staff at the magazine based on technology leadership, innovation and customer satisfaction, as well as sheer influence in areas key to the development of data-rich, value-generating IT solutions.
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Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management, delivers software that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance. Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage - corporate performance management (CPM) - achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Its integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence. Cognos serves more than 22 000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise BI and performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3 000 worldwide partners and resellers. Cognos is traded on NASDAQ (COGN) and on The TSX in Toronto (CSN). For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
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