Cognos, a business intelligence and performance management solutions vendor, has received two highly acclaimed international awards - a Stevie Award, hailed by the New York Post as the business world's own Oscars, for Best Product Development Team, as well as a "Best Midmarket Strategy" accolade from the Midsize Enterprise Summit Europe Event recently held in Paris, France.
The Stevie Award recognised the Cognos product development team for its R&D initiatives in the past year, particularly for the innovative development of the Cognos 8 Go! consumer modes.
Extensions to the Cognos 8 Business Intelligence platform, the consumer modes - including Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, Cognos 8 Go! Search and Cognos 8 Go! Office - help improve decision-making and increase business intelligence user adoption rates within an organisation by letting users view and consume reports, analysis and other BI content using familiar applications or devices, such as the BlackBerry wireless platform from Research in Motion (RIM), search engines, MS Office applications, or Web browsers.
"We have always fostered a culture of innovation here at Cognos," says Peter Griffiths, senior vice-president: products at Cognos. "The Cognos product development team has achieved continued success this past year in delivering first-to-market solutions purpose-built for industry-leading partners such as Google, RIM and IBM. This award is a validation of the innovative spirit and drive required to fuel these efforts."
Recipients of International Stevie Award trophies were selected from more than 1 000 nominations received from companies and individuals in more than 30 countries.
In addition, Cognos won the award for "Best Midmarket Strategy" at the Midsize Enterprise Summit Europe Event held from 26 to 28 June in Paris, France.
The IT executives in attendance review many products and services at Midsize Enterprise Summit Europe. A Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award signifies that the attendees felt the winners displayed a surpassing level of excellence for IT technology providers in their category. The "Midsize Enterprise Innovation Awards" are the only industry awards voted on solely by leading midmarket IT executives.
Says Dave Laverty, chief marketing officer at Cognos: "We believe this award is a clear validation of our vision to help customers of all sizes drive business performance. This is seen with our new Cognos Now! solution, which allows us to provide mid-market customers with immediate visibility and insight into how their business is performing at a lower total cost of ownership. The solution is not yet available in South Africa, but will be announced as soon as the local office is able to offer it to its partners and customers."
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Midsize Enterprise Summit brings senior IT executives from midsize businesses together with Gartner analysts and leading and emerging technology providers. The focus, enabling strategic IT decision-making, embraces midmarket-specific issues, trends and solutions from a horizontal and vertical industry-specific perspective. The business-intensive format includes Gartner-led sessions, technology provider-led world premiere and private boardroom appointments, a showcase of exhibits and networking functions.
The Stevie Awards
Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars" by the New York Post (27 April 2005), Stevie Awards are conferred in four programmes: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the Selling Power Sales Excellence Awards. Honouring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognise outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.
The Premier Sponsor of the 2007 International Business Awards is the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology. National sponsors include the Korea Business Communicators Association. Lionbridge is the official localisation partner. Media sponsors include BusinessDay, Chief Executive, CIO Decisions, CorpComms and Human Resource Executive.
Cognos
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organisation's ERP, packaged applications and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions - How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? - and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.
Cognos serves more than 23 000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos performance management 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.
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