Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI), today announced Cognos has taken the top market share position in the worldwide business intelligence tools market, according to new numbers from leading industry analyst firm, International Data Corporation (IDC). Cognos garnered first place over competitors SAS Institute and Business Objects SA.
"Cognos has demonstrated solid marketplace momentum with its business intelligence tools. Organisations are placing a premium on solutions that help them analyse business performance in order to drive greater efficiencies and opportunity. With the announcement of Cognos Series 7, Cognos has continued to drive adoption of business intelligence around the world," said Henry Morris, Group Vice President for Applications and Information Access, IDC.
Cognos also grew worldwide end-user query and reporting tools revenue at a rate of 10.8% between 2000-2001, and took second-place share of the overall worldwide information access tools revenue, placing ahead of rival Business Objects SA.
"Cognos is focused on winning the business intelligence marketplace in partnership with our customers," said Dave Laverty, senior vice-president, Cognos. "The Cognos commitment to deliver demonstrable enterprise value is continuing to drive our momentum in the marketplace, and that commitment is underscored by today`s announcement."
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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 organisation, and enables the complete management cycle with integrated software for planning, budgeting, reporting, analysis and scorecarding.
Cognos serves more than 19 000 customers in over 120 countries. Cognos enterprise 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.