Business intelligence company, Cognos, is bringing its bold new vision, products and technical expertise to customers across SA, at its Enterprise 2002 User Conference. Communicating this vision will be several top international speakers for the further enrichment of delegates who attend.
Following the keynote opening by David Mc William, MD of Cognos South Africa, two prominent Cognos members will share their knowledge and expertise during the keynote address, namely Barbara Cain, Vice-President, Portfolio Management and Oliver Oursin, European services technical manager.
Oursin is responsible for the Cognos BI solutions in Europe. He has been involved in the long-term version planning from a European perspective, having had four years of experience with Cognos and its solutions.
As director of product management for Cognos Series 7, Cain delivered Cognos` first integrated enterprise BI solution in early 2002. Following her promotion to vice-president, portfolio management, she is responsible for the Global 2000 customer and portfolio business view, the product management process and the Cognos solution roadmap and characteristics.
These Cognos senior management will review the scope of the business intelligence market opportunity, explore how companies are using BI to optimise business performance, and present to the investment community Cognos` strategies for leadership in the BI market. This one-day event will also feature several of the company`s most significant enterprise customers, such as Woolworths, Merck Pharmaceuticals and Chemserve.
This one-day event will provide Cognos customers and partners with valuable information about Cognos` strategic direction, product developments, customer case studies, as well as technical tips and techniques on a broad range of topics. The user conference was designed to provide Cognos customers and partners with opportunities for networking and idea sharing with other members of the user community.
"Cognos is committed to delivering important information to our customers and partners in a manner that best meets their needs at this time," says Mc William. "Cognos Enterprise 2002 will ensure that we continue to help make our users the best decision-makers in the world."
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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 organization, 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.
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