Cognos Channel Partners Achieve Success with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
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-- Cognos Partner Summit 2006 Draws More than 500 Attendees --
LAS VEGAS, Cognos Partner Summit 2006, June 23 / -- At the Cognos Partner Summit 2006, Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that its global channel partners have continued to gain market momentum and further grow their businesses with Cognos 8 BI. Partners credit the speed of knowledge transfer between Cognos and its partners and the strength and flexibility of Cognos 8 BI for their growth and achievements in helping companies gain access to relevant information to make better business decisions.
At the Cognos Partner Summit 2006, more than 500 attendees are gathered to gain insight into the growing partner opportunities with Cognos, learn the latest about Cognos' products, and network with their peers to learn how to increase selling effectiveness. In addition, Cognos will announce winners of the 2006 Global Partner Awards, honoring those partners across North America, Latin America, and Europe that have excelled at innovation, influence, and thought-leadership, and that share a vision and passion for performance management.
"We have one of the strongest partner ecosystems in the industry, as evidenced by our partners' loyalty, customers' positive feedback, and number of competitor's partners interested in joining our program," said Neal Hill, senior vice president, corporate development at Cognos. "The combination of the industry's most complete BI product with the specific domain expertise of our partners results in success for our customers. As a result, we are best positioned to satisfy customer requirements, help the best channel partners grow their businesses, and continue our leadership position in the market."
-Partner ecosystem delivers tailored expertise to drive customers'performance
The strong network of Cognos partners covers the widest range of industry expertise to satisfy the specific and focused business needs of any customer. Cognos partners collaborate with the Cognos sales team to identify customers' technical and business needs, and deliver a meaningful solution to address today's needs and provide an underlying foundation for performance management. Cognos 8 BI is the industry's most complete BI solution providing reporting, analysis, dashboarding, scorecarding, and event management in one product. Partners' specialized knowledge extends that offering for customers, helping them maximize technology investments. Cognos 8 BI's SOA also makes it easy for partners to quickly deploy, speeding time to results for customers, and enabling the partners to expand their reach to more organizations. Some of the partners delivering Cognos 8 BI solutions include BSG (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia), Business Applications Co., Ltd. (Thailand), DSS de Mexico (Mexico), Newcomp Solutions (Canada), Pelion Group (Australia), Romulus Business Intelligence (Scotland), Simpson Associates (England), and WhittmanHart (United States).
"Finding that unique winning combination of a supportive partner and a first-class technology like Cognos 8 BI is rare," said Michael Ward, senior partner, Creative Technology and Training Solutions, LLC, a silver level Cognos reseller partner. "We used to work with a competitive company, but found that the support necessary for success was just not there. Since we made the switch to work with Cognos on our BI and performance management implementations, we've seen much happier customers. This is truly a winning relationship for us."
"Cognos has a strong OEM partner program, and we value our relationship with the company because of its vision, solution capabilities and alignment with our customers' reporting needs," said John Bourne, senior vice president, global product management for Witness Systems, a platinum level Cognos OEM partner. "Powered by Cognos Business Intelligence, our Impact 360(TM) workforce optimization reporting engine delivers competitive advantage in a maturing market -- helping contact center directors and other strategic business users better understand their operations to make more informed decisions. Both as a technology provider and partner, Cognos is helping us deliver a strong return on investment for our customers."
"We have been working with Cognos for many years and are continually impressed with the company's innovation, concern for its partners' businesses, and commitment to performance management," said Joe Baird, CEO, CBH, a Cognos platinum reseller partner. "Cognos is our sole BI technology solution provider and we have no reason to diversify our offerings. Combining our expertise with Cognos 8 BI results in customers that are running faster, smarter, and more effectively."
For more information about Cognos' channel partners or the Cognos Partner Program, visit http://cognos.com/partners/index.html?lid=//Partners//Overview.
About 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 organization'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/.
Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Media Contacts:
Amy Shanler
Cognos, Inc., 781-313-2464
amy.shanler@cognos.com
Jolene Bonina
Lois Paul & Partners, LLC, 781-782-5849
jolene_bonina@lpp.com
Investor Relations:
John Lawlor
Cognos, Inc., 613-738-3503
john.lawlor@cognos.com
Source: Cognos
CONTACT: Media Contacts: Amy Shanler of Cognos, Inc., +1-781-313-2464,
amy.shanler@cognos.com; or Jolene Bonina of Lois Paul & Partners, LLC,
+1-781-782-5849, jolene_bonina@lpp.com; or Investor Relations: John Lawlor of
Cognos, Inc., +1-613-738-3503, john.lawlor@cognos.com
Web site: http://www.cognos.com/
