Cognos upgrades business intelligence solution for the small enterprise

Cognos, the leading strategic vendor of enterprise business intelligence solutions, has announced BISE 3.0 (Business Intelligence for the Small Enterprise). Cognos` BISE 3.0 solution allows small-to- midsize companies to have the same cost-effective business intelligence solution and benefits as larger companies and take advantage of PowerPlay and Impromptu to solve many of the challenges associated with accessing, analyzing and reporting warehouse data. BISE 3.0 is now available with PowerPlay 6.0 and Impromptu 5.0.

The BISE 3.0 solution is offered exclusively through Cognos` certified resellers and targets companies with annual revenues of up to R250 million or departmental pilot programs within larger organizations. The BISE "starter" package includes PowerPlay 6.0, Cognos` universal OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) tool, Impromptu 5.0, its award-winning query and reporting tool and a HeadStart? Solutions kit for sales analysis implementation.

"The BISE 3.0 solution provides an easy and affordable way for small-to-midsize companies to get off the ground with data marts or data warehousing projects, at low cost and low risk," said Ralph Pecker, managing director, Cognos Africa. "Any size company can benefit from the ability to turn corporate data into information crucial to the decision making process, and the BISE 3.0 solution enables customers to receive the greatest possible benefit from their data sources."

"The BISE 3.0 solution provides resellers with a headstart in building a sales analysis reporting solution for small-to-medium-sized companies," said Ralph Pecker, managing director, Cognos Africa. "The reseller`s knowledge of its customers` data, computing environments and reporting needs combined with Cognos` BISE 3.0 enables companies to see measurable results within 90 days. No other business intelligence vendor has the focus nor the ability to offer resellers a program and a process designed to help them succeed in small-to-medium-sized companies."

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Cognos

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.

Founded in 1969, Cognos is a publicly-traded company with offices around the world. U.S. operations for the company are headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. For more information, visit Cognos` World Wide Web site at http://www.cognos.com.