Cognos 8 BI Extends the Reach of Business Intelligence Across the Enterprise27 March 2006
Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), a leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced the latest version of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (MR1). This new version of Cognos 8 BI includes new search and reporting capabilities to extend the reach of BI to more users, and expanded enterprise-application and data support to help maximize operational infrastructure investments.
"We are continuing our market leadership by further enhancing the proven capabilities in Cognos 8 BI," said Leah MacMillan, vice president of product marketing, Cognos. "With the additional support for enterprise applications in Cognos 8 BI, we can help companies unlock the potential of their ERP investments by providing intuitive ways to measure, monitor, and analyze business information. Cognos 8 BI also allows companies to share that information with more people to improve and accelerate business decisions, and empower people to take action with greater confidence."
Cognos 8 BI delivers a simplified, zero-footprint interface for all users, authors and administrators. Easy to integrate, deploy and use, Cognos 8 BI delivers a complete BI environment that drives high user adoption, promotes self-service authoring, enables better decision-making, and serves as an enterprise-scale technology foundation for performance management. New capabilities announced today include:
* BI search: Cognos Go! Search Service, a new BI search capability, will
enable users to instantly find relevant, strategic enterprise
information available through Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. With a
familiar, browser-based search that ranks results based on user
priorities, Cognos Go! will deliver users an intuitive and efficient
way of quickly finding BI information and data presented in reports,
analyses, dashboards, metric information, and events across the
organization (see related release, "Cognos Announces New Cognos Go!
Search Service," 3/27/06).
* Extended Cognos Office Connection: In addition to the ability to embed
refreshable reports within Microsoft(R) Excel(R), users can now view,
interact with, and refresh Cognos 8 BI reports, analyses, and metrics
within Microsoft PowerPoint(R) and Excel. This ensures centralized
control and manageability of information and helps extend the reach of
trusted BI content to more users within a familiar environment without
requiring additional IT support. Cognos Office Connection enables users
to enhance Microsoft Office documents with accurate, rich data, and
share those documents and BI content throughout the organization.
* Access to mySAP(TM) and Siebel(TM): The new Cognos 8 Report Packs for
mySAP FI/CO (for SAP R/3(R) data) and Siebel CRM extend the value of
current enterprise investments for customers by providing business
users, for the first time, the ability to combine in one report or
dashboard, historic data from the data warehouse with current data in
mySAP and Siebel CRM transaction systems without additional coding. As
a result, organizations achieve the most complete view of enterprise
performance while eliminating costs and effort required for separate
operational reporting projects. Cognos 8 Report Packs also deliver pre-
defined content for more than 60 commonly used reports to provide
immediate access to mySAP and Siebel CRM data within a business
context. The Cognos Data Adapter provides one-click connectivity into
mySAP and Siebel, delivering secure and trusted pathways to build
additional reports. The Cognos 8 Report Packs and Cognos Data Adapter
extend underlying functionality provided by Composite Software.
* Certified SAP NetWeaver(R) Support: Cognos 8 BI received updated
certification for SAP NetWeaver, allowing customers to access data in
the SAP(R) Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), deploy Cognos 8 BI
on the SAP Web Application Server, and display information through the
SAP NetWeaver Portal. Customers can extend beyond reporting to create
robust dashboards and active scorecards, and conduct deep analysis,
dimensional reporting, and business event management on the SAP
infrastructure. Additionally, Cognos continues to deliver self-service
capabilities to SAP NetWeaver users by providing out-of-the-box support
for more than 80 additional functions, many of which are not available
natively in SAP NetWeaver. Cognos 8 BI provides end users with a single
place to go for all BI across the enterprise by bridging numerous data
sources, such as multiple SAP BW InfoProviders, multiple instances of
SAP BW, and non-SAP BW data (including mySAP and other relational and
OLAP sources). (See Cognos SAP Fact Sheet at
http://www.cognos.com/news/releases/2006/0327_1_factsheet.pdf)
* Additional Platform and Data Support: Cognos also offers updated
support for HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i, Microsoft SQL
Server(TM) 2005, BEA WebLogic Server(R) 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4.0, Sybase(R) Adaptive Server(R) Enterprise (ASE) 15, Teradata(R)
Warehouse 8.1, ORACLE(R) Database 10g v2, and Netezza Performance
Server(R) system.
"Cognos 8 Business Intelligence delivers significant productivity benefits for end users, report developers, and IT organizations with the new search, reporting, and enterprise-application support capabilities," said Dan Vesset, research director, Analytics and Data Warehousing Software, IDC. "Organizations are constantly challenged to extend BI to more users and more data sources and with these enhancements, Cognos is meeting a market demand to provide one holistic view of historical and current operational data in one product. I would expect a positive reaction to the Cognos 8 Report Packs and the extended self-service capabilities for SAP NetWeaver users."
Cognos will be showcasing the latest version of Cognos 8 BI this week in Las Vegas at the SAP NetWeaver BI and Portals 2006 conference at booth 213 in the Solutions Showcase, and will be presenting with Mold-Masters on Monday, March 27, from 6:45 - 7:15 p.m. in the Vendor Theater.
About Cognos:
Cognos, a leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software and services that help 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 and 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: prnewswire
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