Cognos 8 BI Garners Strong Support from Key Resellers Worldwide
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14 -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced widespread reseller partner support for Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. Cognos 8 BI is the industry's first single product to deliver complete BI functionality -- including comparative analysis, dimensional reporting, active dashboards and scorecards -- on a proven single architecture, helping accelerate enterprise BI standardization. See today's related release at http://cognos.com/news/releases/2005/0914_3.html.
Cognos boasts a strong worldwide reseller partner network that helped test and evaluate Cognos 8 BI's comprehensive business intelligence functionality in real-world scenarios. "Partner response to Cognos 8 BI has been nothing short of overwhelming," said Ben Plummer, vice president of global partner development at Cognos. "By leveraging the complete, single platform BI functionality found in Cognos 8 with the pervasive reach and collective market expertise of our resellers, Cognos is now in a position to extend its worldwide leadership in delivering unparalleled corporate performance management solutions to enterprises of all sizes."
Strong support for Cognos 8 BI was received from several of the company's key reseller partners including:
Business Applications Inc.:
Established in 1993, Business Applications Inc. (http://www.bac.co.th/) is one of the leading distributors of Cognos Corporate Performance Management solutions in the Southeast Asian market. To date, the company has successfully helped hundreds of companies and government agencies gain better insights, make informed decisions, and identify emerging issues through Cognos' market-leading reporting and analysis tools.
"The business intelligence market in Asia has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, and will continue to be at or near the top of most corporate and government IT agendas for years to come. This growth is driven by customer demand for robust BI solutions that can give them the flexible information insights they need to identify performance issues ahead of time, and make informed decisions. That's why BAC is focused exclusively on partnering with Cognos," said Sirisak Tirawattanangkul, managing director at BAC. "In our opinion, Cognos 8 BI further widens the gap between Cognos and its competitors. Its single BI platform and data source independence in particular will prove to be of significant value to our customers."
DSS de Mexico:
DSS de Mexico (http://www.dssmexico.com.mx/.), a Cognos Platinum Partner, is one of Latin America's leading providers of business consulting and implementation services specializing in business intelligence and corporate performance management.
"DSS applauds Cognos for being first to market with a BI solution that finally addresses what global enterprises have been asking for -- all of the BI functionality together in a single product and on a single platform," said Jesus Saucedo, general manager at DSS de Mexico. "Many of our customers are eager to drive their standardization strategies to help turn their disparate enterprise data into the kind of corporate information they need to enable better business performance. Cognos 8 BI provides the best approach to helping them achieve these goals in less time and with less effort."
JCB Partners:
JCB Partners (http://www.jcbpartners.com/), a Cognos Platinum Partner, is a business consulting firm specializing in business intelligence implementations for sales and marketing, finance/accounting and operational reporting solutions that help clients visualize, analyze, and realize real business results.
"Cognos 8 BI demonstrates Cognos' commitment to be the leader in the corporate performance management market," said Ed Wooden, managing partner at JCB Partners. "The seamless integration of so many powerful products into one, such as the robust Web-based query and report authoring of Cognos ReportNet with the slice-and-dice drill down capability of Cognos PowerPlay, takes business intelligence to the next generation. This is what many of our customers have been wishing for and they are excited by the opportunity to extend their performance management capabilities."
Newcomp Solutions:
Newcomp Solutions Inc. (http://www.newcomp.com/), a Cognos Platinum Partner, is a full service solution provider specializing in designing and implementing corporate performance management and data warehouse systems. Winner of the Cognos Platinum Partner award for seven consecutive years, Newcomp Solutions ensures premium solutions with an outstanding commitment in its customers' successful projects.
"Cognos 8 BI is a strategic release for us and for our clients," says Michael Langton, partner at Newcomp Solutions. "The tightened integration between scorecarding, analysis, reporting and event notification will be a huge benefit to our existing and future clients. With Cognos 8, organizations will now be in a better position to truly fulfill their BI standardization agendas enterprise-wide."
Niteo Partners:
Niteo Partners (http://www.niteo.com/), a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Solutions (America) Inc. and a Cognos Platinum Partner, is a consulting, solutions and systems integration firm that leverages Internet technologies to deliver strategic and measurable value through the creation of innovative and mission-critical solutions for Global 2000 companies. Niteo's vision of the Connected Enterprise guides the development of core solution and service offerings to deliver tangible business value for its clients.
"Niteo Partners is pleased to help bring this new release to market. Many of our customers look forward to enjoying the new product integration features of Cognos 8 BI," said Frank J. Marsella Sr, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Niteo Partners. "Because we've been involved with the Cognos 8 BI beta, our consultants have had a chance to put the product to the test and we are looking forward to assisting our customers with the roll out in September. Our customers and consultants believe the advances made with this product will continue to improve Cognos' strength as a best-of-breed business intelligence platform."
Simpson Associates:
Founded in 1991, Simpson Associates (http://www.simpson-associates.co.uk/), a Cognos Platinum Partner, delivers high performance management solutions to companies across a wide range of sectors and sizes. With numerous awards for demonstrating excellence in the implementation and deployment of performance management solutions, Simpson Associates was also the first to attain the "Cognos Accredited Services Partner" certification in Europe.
"Simpson Associates considers this release a comprehensive and world class generation of business intelligence that is more powerful, easier to deploy and offering enriched functionality with improved returns on investment for our customers," said John Simpson, director at Simpson Associates. "Having been involved in the pre-production testing, we at Simpson Associates embrace Cognos 8 BI and look forward to utilizing our award winning skills and expertise in helping our customers realize the vast potentials it has to offer."
Sky Solutions:
Sky Solutions (http://www.skysolutions.com/), a Cognos Platinum Partner, is a leading systems integration firm specializing in business intelligence, data warehousing and enterprise planning solutions for businesses of all sizes. Headquartered in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, Sky Solutions offers a dedicated team of certified IT professionals, award winning system designers, and advanced software engineers specializing in the field of data warehousing.
"Sky Solutions is proud to embrace Cognos 8 BI and is ready to move forward with what we believe will be the most advanced, complete and innovative platform for business intelligence and corporate performance management," said Francois Ross, director, southeast region at Sky Solutions. "Cognos 8 BI is positioned to become the ultimate standard in reporting, analytics, and business intelligence."
ABOUT COGNOS:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software and services that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance.
Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage -- Corporate Performance Management (CPM) -- achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 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/.
