Cognos Announces Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Data Modeler for IBM Lotus Domino24 January 2006
At Lotusphere(R) 2006, Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), a world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced the general availability of the Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Data Modeler for IBM(R) Lotus(R) Domino(R). Companies will now be able to access critical business information located in isolated silos of IBM Lotus Notes(R) applications and databases. This further extends the capabilities of Cognos 8 BI to access heterogeneous data sources and provide the most comprehensive view of corporate information for BI reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and event management.
Through its simple wizard-style interface, the Cognos 8 BI Data Modeler integrates Lotus Notes databases and applications with Cognos 8 BI, the only BI product to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities on a single, proven architecture. In addition, customers can present and manage Cognos reports within the IBM Websphere Portal and the IBM Workplace Managed Client(TM) to further facilitate collaboration, problem-solving, and performance management initiatives.
"Global organizations have leveraged the unique capabilities in Lotus Notes to build thousands of applications, and most of those applications were created before business intelligence became a critical business requirement," said Leah MacMillan, vice president of product marketing, Cognos. "As a result, most enterprises struggle to include Lotus Notes data within their BI infrastructure. The Cognos 8 BI Data Modeler allows Notes users, for the first time, to leverage all of the enterprise's knowledge to gain a complete picture of business performance."
"As with collaboration and portal technologies, choosing a business intelligence standard requires that technology meets stringent enterprise- class requirements," said Ken Bisconti, vice president, Workplace Portal and collaboration products, IBM. "One of these requirements is accessing a vast number of heterogeneous data sources for modeling and querying, including Lotus Notes data. With the Cognos 8 BI Data Modeler, Cognos is helping customers extend the value of their investments in Cognos and Lotus Domino."
The Cognos 8 BI Data Modeler allows BI users to easily select Lotus Notes data sources, tables, and columns, and label them with names that are meaningful to the business, without making any changes to existing Lotus Notes applications. The Cognos 8 BI Data Modeler optimizes the data for fast access and creates a metadata model for Cognos 8 BI. This data is then as accessible as any other enterprise data source and can be joined to other enterprise data sources without coding. The Workplace Managed Client integration allows users to collaborate with a full understanding of business performance.
The Cognos 8 BI Data Modeler for IBM Lotus Domino was co-developed with Cognos technology partner Sun and Son, an industry leader in the development and integration of solutions for Workplace Collaboration and Knowledge and Expertise Management. A product demonstration can be downloaded at the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com/solutions/data/ibm/lotus_domino.html.
About Cognos 8 Business Intelligence:
Cognos 8 BI is a groundbreaking product that provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with a consistent, accurate view of information to better manage performance. As a single product that easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources, Cognos 8 BI is a robust technology foundation for BI standardization and corporate performance management.
About Cognos:
Cognos, a world 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.
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