Gartner has positioned Cognos, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, in the leaders quadrant of its Enterprise Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant. According to Gartner, leaders are vendors that are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their dominant position in the market.
Rob Ashe, Cognos president and chief operating officer, says the company continues to expand its leadership position in BI on the strength of its Cognos Enterprise BI Series, a comprehensive business intelligence solution, and by delivering on its vision of corporate performance management (CPM).
"The largest and most successful companies around the globe, and many in SA, continue to choose Cognos for its breadth of functionality, scalability and ease of use," he says. "This prestigious positioning by Gartner is a testament to the continued momentum Cognos enjoys in the BI market, the award-winning quality and innovation of products like Cognos ReportNet, and the strength of our corporate performance management vision."
Cognos ReportNet provides a complete, pure Web-based enterprise query and reporting environment, and is fully integrated within the Cognos EBI Series, which offers customers rich multi-dimensional analysis and visualisation, a complete environment for ad hoc and managed, actionable event-driven BI, and data integration. Combined with Cognos Enterprise Planning Series, its solution for planning, budgeting, modelling and forecasting, and Cognos Metrics Manager, a robust and flexible enterprise scorecarding solution, Cognos delivers a complete and integrated solution for CPM.
Since its release seven months ago, Cognos ReportNet has already been implemented by hundreds of multinational, diversified enterprises. Built upon a service-oriented architecture, Cognos ReportNet scales to hundreds of thousands of users, and has amassed millions in licence revenue.
"These outstanding results for a product show that we have a great growth driver for the company today, and that we also have an architectural foundation that will raise the bar in the business intelligence market," says Ashe. "ReportNet is the kind of exceptional innovation that has driven Cognos for the past 30 years and it is innovation that will carry the company forward."
For complete details on Gartner`s April 2004 BI Magic Quadrant, visit the Cognos Web site at www.cognos.com.
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Cognos South Africa is the local subsidiary of Canadian-based Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance planning software for the enterprise. Companies use Cognos solutions to improve and direct corporate performance. From planning and budgeting, to measuring and monitoring performance, to reporting and analysis, Cognos is the only company to support all of these key management activities with a complete solution that spans all of the essential components of enterprise planning, scorecarding and business intelligence.
More than 22 000 customers in over 135 countries use Cognos to better monitor, understand and drive the successful performance of their business. Cognos customers represent every industry sector, including automotive, banking and insurance, energy and natural resources, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.