Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Validated as 'Ready for IBM WebSphere Portal'21 May 2006
Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) has been designated by IBM as "Ready for IBM WebSphere Portal," the highest level of validation for software applications built to run within the IBM WebSphere Portal environment.
Through this validation, global organizations can capitalize on out-of-the-box production-ready Cognos 8 BI portlets that conform to IBM WebSphere's Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)-compliant framework. This offers business users complete access to all facets of their Cognos BI implementation -- including reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards and business event management -- via an integrated WebSphere Portal interface. Customers also benefit from stronger portal authentication and information security through the integration of Cognos 8 BI's powerful security mechanism with IBM WebSphere's native single-sign-on (SSO). Furthermore, portlet-to-portlet communication lets users easily navigate their Cognos 8 BI content and render reports in complete business context, delivering results to a dedicated view, and enabling the user to utilize their limited visual resources to their full potential.
Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides the complete range of BI capabilities in a single product, on a single Web services architecture. It is also the only solution to deliver a simplified, zero-footprint interface for all users, authors and administrators. Easy to integrate, deploy and use, Cognos 8 BI delivers a simplified BI environment that drives high user adoption, enables better decision-making, and serves as an enterprise-scale technology foundation for performance management, now and in the future.
"We are very excited about Cognos and IBM's collaboration. Their combined products and services enabled us to seamlessly integrate our Cognos BI environment into our existing IBM architecture," said Sandy Wagner, vice president of information management at American Modern Insurance Group, a subsidiary of The Midland Company and one of the leading providers of specialty insurance for the manufactured housing industry, including mobile homes and specialty dwellings. "As a result, we will be able to provide consistent and timely information to our business partners and associates in a stable, homogeneous environment, and, at the same time, eliminate redundant hardware and software."
This validation comes on the heels of a new global strategic alliance, in which Cognos and IBM agreed to jointly develop, market and sell integrated SOA-based solutions to help customers optimize their analytics capabilities, leveraging industry-specific best practices and IT platforms. Under terms of the alliance, Cognos committed to further enhancing its business intelligence products for IBM hardware, software, and services, including delivering IBM WebSphere technologies as part of the preferred reference architecture for Cognos 8 Special Edition.
Cognos also recently achieved IBM's "Ready for Grid" validation, certifying Cognos' interoperability with IBM's standards-based, flexible and scalable suite of software and hardware products for Grid Computing.
"Global organizations can move forward with confidence knowing their Cognos solution is working with the market's leading portal technology that helps organizations create dynamic and open business applications tailored to their role and the task at hand," said Ken Bisconti, vice president of workplace, portal and collaboration products at IBM. "This is yet another testament to our commitment to work together to drive innovative solutions that lead to better decision making and enhanced customer loyalty."
"We are pleased to further deepen our relationship with IBM through this certification of Cognos 8 BI for WebSphere Portal," said Patrick O'Leary, vice president of strategic alliances at Cognos. "Our integration with IBM WebSphere provides new and existing customers with superior universal analysis and reporting capabilities to help them bring together their people and processes, deliver one version of the truth, and ultimately succeed with their performance management initiatives."
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.
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