30 New 'Powered by Cognos' Solutions Now Available29 June 2006
Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that Cognos partners are delivering 30 new 'Powered by Cognos' solutions for customers to improve and progress financial and operational performance initiatives.
'Powered by Cognos' is an elite program for partners who deliver performance management solutions that combine Cognos technology with their deep domain expertise.
The new 'Powered by Cognos' partner solutions address key areas including banking and financial services, governance, risk and compliance, enterprise performance, life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, the gaming industry, public sector, retail and wholesale, services, system infrastructure and performance, mobile devices, aerospace and defense and human resources. Each solution's objective is to enable and engage customers to better manage company performance. Representative solutions include:
* Onyx Analytics 3.0 is a software solution integrated with Onyx'
enterprise customer relationship and process management solutions that
uses Cognos 8 BI to empower sales, marketing and customer service
agents and their managers with actionable insight -- increasing
revenues and customer satisfaction while decreasing costs. The solution
lets users drill down directly from reports to individual records in
the CRM system and includes a comprehensive array of pre-built analytic
modules for customer segmentation as well as sales, marketing, service,
support and event management.
"Using Onyx Analytics -- which is powered by Cognos -- International SOS is able to effectively monitor customer information and regularly assess service levels," said Tom Griffin, CRM Programme Manager, International SOS. "The availability of customer analytics enables account managers to more effectively serve our customers medical and security assistance needs, and identify new sales opportunities within our global marketplace. The result is an increase in satisfaction for our customers and increased value for our sales and account management teams."
The CBH Healthcare Performance Management (HPM) solution leverages Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and Microsoft Windows Workflow to let healthcare providers tie patient clinical data with administrative performance information. The solution provides a complete, 360-degree view of the health of the patient and the underlying cost associations of the practice. See today's related release at: http://www.cognos.com/mediakit_forum/cbh_powered_by_cognos.pdf
JCB's Retail Pathways is an industry-specific performance management and analytics solution designed to empower chains to plan, measure and analyze their Key Performance Indicators to improve profitability and efficiency. See today's related release at: http://www.cognos.com/mediakit_forum/jbc_powered_by_cognos.pdf
FirstQuarter's ProTools Security Builder for Cognos 8 Business Intelligence helps customers secure their BI content and dimensional data. ProTools brings a consistent methodology to the security process. The solution provides a means for handling multiple security designs across Cognos projects and tools for implementing simple to highly complex security schemes. Additional information is available at: http://www.firstquarter.net/protools.
For a complete listing of Powered by Cognos solutions, see: http://www.cognos.com\solutions\powered-by-cognos
"Our Powered by Cognos program showcases partners that develop, market and sell solutions based on the capabilities of the Cognos Performance Management System," said Dave Laverty, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Cognos. "This key expansion of our partner ecosystem will help customers accelerate their performance management initiatives with proven solutions that are specifically tailored to meet their industry requirements."
About Powered by Cognos
Powered by Cognos is an elite program for partners who deliver performance management solutions that combine Cognos technology with their deep domain expertise. These partners deliver solutions focused on key areas, including industry groups, enterprise performance and system infrastructure, all with the objective of enabling and engaging their customers' to better manage company performance. Members of Powered by Cognos are integral players in delivering fast, proven performance management solutions to Cognos customers.
The Cognos Performance Management System combines technology, best practices, analytical applications and solutions, and a broad network of partners into a single performance management solution for customers.
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:
Carrie Bendzsa
Cognos, 613-738-1440
carrie.bendzsa@cognos.com
Doreen Maciak
Lois Paul & Partners, 781-782-5832
doreen_maciak@lpp.com
Investor Relations:
John Lawlor
Cognos, 613-738-3503
john.lawlor@cognos.com
Source: prnewswire
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