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Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced that Arla Foods, a global supplier of dairy products for leading food producers throughout the world, has expanded its relationship with Cognos by selecting Cognos ReportNet. Cognos is delivering powerful and consistent corporate-wide reporting from the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) solution and other data sources in use at Arla Foods. Cognos was selected after an extensive comparison of reporting options on SAP BW covering more than 50 user-defined requirements, including scheduling, distribution, reporting functionality, and scalability. Key areas included formatting for management reports and flexibility for end user self-service -- with ad-hoc reporting being a priority. "Cognos ReportNet is a fantastic reporting tool that offers us a powerful new reporting solution that complements our SAP investment, making it easier for our staff to find the information they need and create complex, compound reports based on customized views," said Michael Volund, Team Manager EAS Business Intelligence, Arla Foods. "ReportNet is easier to use and removes recurring manual effort to get the information we need to run the business. The impact is less time required from users and administrators, information consistency across all users, and increased precision of data being used in mission-critical decision-making." Finance and global sales teams needed improved variance and sales performance reporting to better manage the business. By implementing Cognos ReportNet, managers across the organization will be able to quickly and easily develop reports from their corporate performance data -- enabling more accurate and timely reporting and decision-making. Cognos ReportNet provides true self-service enterprise reporting with streamlined, drag-and-drop report authoring -- scaling to hundreds of thousands of users. SAP integration-certified as "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" and anchored on its support for the SAP NetWeaver '04 platform, Cognos ReportNet seamlessly integrates with SAP BW, delivering strong reporting on data housed in both SAP and non-SAP solutions. SAP BW is a core product within the SAP NetWeaver platform. "Cognos is very pleased to continue its partnership with Arla Foods, which has demonstrated a leadership role in implementing strategic business intelligence in order to successfully meet its corporate performance management goals," said Leah MacMillan, vice president, product marketing, Cognos. "Arla Foods is yet another customer to select Cognos ReportNet for its breadth of functionality, speed of deployment, and zero-footprint." Interested customers can hear from ARLA Foods about their success when they teamed SAP and Cognos together on Tuesday, August 23 during a live Web seminar at 1:00 p.m. Eastern. To register, visit: http://www.cognos.com/na/easysapreporting