Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, says it will be looking to extend its market leadership and raise brand awareness when it participates at GITEX 2006, the Middle East’s premier IT exhibition.

As the leading vendor in Corporate Performance Management, GITEX provides an ideal platform for Cognos to meet clients and demonstrate how they can continue to drive their business forward while gaining insights on the regional enterprise technology market. The company will focus on its software – the hugely successful Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and Cognos 8 Planning. Cognos 8 BI is the industry’s first Web-services based solution that provides the complete range of BI functionalities in a single product on a proven, single architecture. [Read more…]

Cognos has launched a software module that allows U.S. Defence agencies to meet new standards for program management and budget planning.

Cognos POM Planning Blueprint will allow defense agencies to produce a comprehensive program objective memorandum, detailing all proposed programs, so that cross-departmental budget expense planning can be based on measurable goals. The blueprint enables budget officers or analysts to deploy demand planning to the appropriate departmental level to more efficiently determine anticipated agency needs for the coming years. [Read more…]

Canon Middle East is rolling out Cognos’ latest business intelligence (BI) solution to more effectively monitor the company’s process and performance efficiencies.

The electronics vendor is currently undertaking a pilot implementation of the Cognos 8 Business Intelligence suite for 25 users that will then be expanded to hundreds of users as the system grows over the course of the year.

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Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), announced today that international clothing retailer, Joseph, is investing in a Cognos enterprise planning solution to improve budgeting and planning processes across its business. It is estimated that the company will cut its current budgeting and planning process by at least 25% of the time currently taken.*

The solution will be rolled out by Cognos partner Tahola, a retail solutions specialist. It will be used by the finance team to prepare annual, quarterly and monthly reports and rolling forecasts into sales figures, retail trends and profit margins.

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