Cognos (www.cognos.com) is the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance planning software for the enterprise. Our solutions let companies improve and direct corporate performance by enabling all of the key steps in the management cycle -from planning and budgeting, to measuring and monitoring performance, to reporting and analysis. Cognos is the only company to support all of these key management activities with a complete solution that spans all of the essential components of CPM- enterprise planning, scorecarding, and business intelligence.

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Founded in 1969, Cognos employs 3,000 people and serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries. Whether they choose to apply Cognos software strategically on an enterprise scale, or leverage it as a point solution to address key operational requirements, our customers use Cognos to better monitor, understand, and drive the successful performance of their business. Cognos customers are involved in every industry sector including automotive, banking and insurance, energy and natural resources, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.

Cognos solutions are sold directly and are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. These solutions are supported by an experienced and award-winning field force of more than 1,800 customer-facing personnel.

Our Solutions will bring you to the next level of performance
Integrated planning, scorecarding, and business intelligence software

Managing your company's performance effectively requires these activities:

• You need a strategy and plans to drive performance.
• You must monitor the progress of what matters.
• You need to understand the Why behind performance and make the best decisions to put your strategy in action.

Cognos offers integrated software to support all of these requirements. Industry analysts and customers recognize Cognos' leadership in planning, scorecarding, and business intelligence. These analysts and experts point to the breadth and excellence of Cognos performance management software as the source of this leadership.

Corporate performance management (CPM) solves these problems in the way it aligns execution with strategy-across your organization.
Enterprise Planning
Define what you want to achieve-and how you will achieve it. Use a hierarchy of plans, measures, and reports that flow from broad strategic objectives to tactical plans across departments, divisions, and locations. Cognos delivers the planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, consolidation, and financial reporting you require.

Enterprise Scorecarding
Manage what matters to your company. Implement any form of performance management initiative: Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, TQM, or your own internal system. Cognos delivers software that lets you create metrics, populate them with dynamic data, and link them to each other and the underlying data that provides detail.

Enterprise Business Intelligence
Access the information to let you make the best business decisions. Cognos offers the industry's most comprehensive set of business intelligence capabilities. People across your company can create, modify, and distribute any type of report required with our easy-to-use reporting. We offer the world's best-selling OLAP software for analysis. Use award-winning data visualization software to communicate complex information intuitively. Event management software brings critical information directly to you. ETL capabilities let you unite different data sources for one version of the truth. 

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