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Encyclopedia > Cognos
Cognos
Type Public
Founded 1969
Headquarters Ottawa, Ontario
Key people Rob Ashe, President and CEO
Industry business intelligence,performance management
Products Cognos 8 BI; Cognos 8 Planning; Cognos 8 Controller; Cognos 8 Workforce Performance; Cognos Go! Family
Revenue $979.26 million USD (2007)
Employees 3,507 (2007)
Website http://www.cognos.com

Cognos (TSX: CSN, NASDAQ: COGN) is an Ottawa, Ontario based company which makes business intelligence (BI) and performance management software. Founded in 1969, Cognos employs almost 3,500 people and serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos was originally known as Quasar and adopted its current name in 1982. On November 12, 2007 it was announced that IBM would acquire Cognos. [1] This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the capital city of Canada. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government - Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley - Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 106 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... Business intelligence (BI) is a business management term, which refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about company operations. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Enterprise Performance Management. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... This article is about work. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... “TSX” redirects here. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... This article is about the capital city of Canada. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government - Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley - Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 106 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... The term company may refer to a separate legal entity, as in English law, or may simply refer to a business, as is the common use in the United States. ... Business intelligence (BI) is a business management term, which refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about company operations. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... For other uses, see IBM (disambiguation) and Big Blue. ...


Cognos 8 BI, which was launched in September 2005, combines the features of several previous products: ReportNet, PowerPlay, Metrics Manager, Noticecast, and Data Manager (formerly DecisionStream). Cognos 8 BI has won numerous awards including the eWEEK Excellence Award in Analytics and Reporting, the LOTUS ADVISOR "Editor's Choice" Award, and TechTarget's SearchCRM.com 2005 Product of the Year.


In 2007, Cognos was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, as published in Maclean's magazine, one of only a handful of software development companies to receive this honour.[2] Canadas Top 100 Employers is an annual competition that recognizes the best places in Canada to work. ... A cover of the Canadian magazine Macleans. ...


Recently, Cognos has been named to the InformationWeek 500, chosen as one of START-IT Magazine's "Hottest Companies of 2006" and won "Best of Information On Demand Showcase" as part of the IBM Information Management Awards.

Contents

Acquisitions

In September 2007, Cognos announced that it would be acquiring Applix. It had previously acquired 4Thought, Relational Matters, LEX2000, DecisionStream, NoticeCast, Adaytum, Frango, Databeacon and Celequest, an Operational Intelligence company. Applix Inc. ... Scientific Time Sharing Corporation was a pioneering timesharing and consulting service company which offered APL from its datacenter in Bethesda, MD to users in the United States and Europe. ... Operational Intelligence (OI) focuses on optimizing business processes by identifying patterns of execution and bottlenecks in the processes, and how exceptional business events affect the processes. ...


Cognos 8 BI Tools Include

Framework Manager
Cognos PowerPlay
PowerPlay Transformer
Report Studio
Query Studio
Analysis Studio
Metrics Studio
Event Studio
Metrics Designer


Products

It has been suggested that Go! Search be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)
  • Cognos Analyst
  • Cognos Contributor
  • Cognos 8 Business Intelligence:
    • Analysis Studio (Explore data to answer business questions)
    • Report Studio (Professional Report Authoring)
    • Query Studio (Ad Hoc Report Authoring)
    • Metric Studio (Monitor, Analyze, and Report on KPI)
    • Event Studio (Action based agents notify decision makers as events happen)
  • Cognos 8 Planning
  • Cognos 8 Controller
  • Cognos 8 Workforce Performance
  • Cognos 8 Data Manager (formerly DecisionStream)
  • Cognos Go! family (Search, Office, Mobile)
  • Cognos Finance (formerly LEX2000)
  • Cognos ReportNet
  • Cognos PowerPlay for Windows
  • Cognos PowerPlay Transformer
  • Cognos 7 Impromptu
  • Cognos 7 Impromptu Administrator
  • Cognos 7 Impromptu Web Reports
  • Cognos 7 Decision Stream
  • Cognos 7 Notice Cast
  • Cognos Performance Applications for Oracle Apps
  • Cognos Performance Applications for SAP
  • Cognos Performance Applications for People Soft

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Industries

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References

  1. ^ IBM to Acquire Cognos to Accelerate Information on Demand Business Initiative
  2. ^ Reasons for Selection, 2007 Canada's Top 100 Employers.

External links

  • Official site
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VARBusiness | Rob Ashe, CEO of Cognos (321 words)
Barely three months into the job he took over from Ron Zambonini, Cognos CEO Rob Ashe talks about running the Ottawa and Burlington, Mass.-based company, whose services division is No. 185 on the VARBusiness 500 with 2003 sales of $122.7 million.
Ashe: Someone who can advocate for the customer over Cognos' relationship with the customer.
I want someone who can be a trusted adviser to the customer.
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