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EAST HANOVER, N.J. -- CSI, Inc. -- The Center for Data Warehousing, a leading developer and service provider of Management Consulting, Application Development and Business Intelligence solutions, today announced a partnership with Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management. Under the agreement, CSI, Inc., will provide customers with CSI's trained and certified data warehousing consultants and solutions leveraging Cognos products and applications. "Our continued efforts to bring best-in-class business intelligence capability to our clients resulted in CSI entering into a partnership with Cognos, a leader in the business intelligence industry. By incorporating the Cognos offering with our Best Practices Methodology, our clients are in a unique position to maximize their technology investments and unlock the power of corporate performance management," said Steve Huber, Vice President and General Manager, CSI, Inc. "The robust suite of integrated enterprise planning, reporting, analysis, and scorecard technology enables companies to monitor key performance, identify trends, and proactively alert users to improve operational efficiencies." Cognos has embraced CPM as the future of the BI and performance management market, as organizations look to align business strategy with execution across the enterprise. With this partnership, organizations will benefit from CSI's strategic solutions and understanding of business applications and Cognos' industry-leading software. Together, Cognos and CSI deploy a value-added approach that helps executives unleash powerful data from their legacy systems, enabling corporate performance management. "The growth of the business intelligence market and the subsequent emergence of corporate performance management as a strategic imperative have created opportunities for vendors to choose Cognos as their BI partner of choice," said Ted Jandl, vice president of strategic partners at Cognos. "We recognize that our continued growth and ability to offer comprehensive solutions is strengthened by the breadth and depth of our partnerships, such as this partnership with CSI. To support the ever-changing business requirements of our customers, we continue to establish new partnerships that add value to our solutions." Cognos has built a strong channel program through the Cognos Partner Program (CPP), a global network of companies that deliver innovative corporate performance management solutions based on Cognos solutions. Through access to Cognos' industry-leading products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the CPP supplies partners with the resources they need to increase revenue and market share, expand their business, and lower their costs.