INDUSTRY

New trusted and secure server to power more informed business decisions: At IBM Information On Demand 2006, Cognos today announced support for the new IBM Information Server. Building on their global strategic alliance, Cognos and IBM are ensuring that joint customers will be able to use Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) and the IBM Information Server to access strategic information across complex and heterogeneous environments to make more informed and effective business decisions. Cognos 8 BI is a groundbreaking product that provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with a consistent, accurate view of information to better manage performance. As a single product that easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources, Cognos 8 BI is a robust technology foundation for BI standardization and performance management. By extending the reach of Cognos 8 BI to include IBM Information Server, companies can develop a unified view of the business. This will enable better decisions by helping companies understand existing data sources and cleanse, correct, and standardize information to be used throughout the enterprise. As a result, organizations will benefit from greater productivity, trusted information, security, and a unified foundation for enterprise information to better improve business intelligence and performance management initiatives. "Customers are challenged with delivering a growing population of users with meaningful access to an exploding volume of data," said Pete Fiore, vice president, IBM Information Integration Solutions. "With IBM Information Server, customers will achieve high levels of performance and availability to authoritative enterprise information to power BI initiatives. By continuing to work closely with Cognos, we are enabling our customers to add unmatched BI on top of integrated information so they can drive innovation, increase operational efficiency, and lower IT risk." "With this announcement, Cognos is extending its commitment to IBM and continuing to deliver BI capabilities for any data source," said Dave Laverty, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Cognos. "IBM Information Server fits well with the Web services-based, SOA of Cognos 8 BI, and will support critical business initiatives such as BI and performance management. Together, IBM and Cognos are helping organizations drive more value out of their information to power faster, more effective business decisions." Cognos is a diamond sponsor of IBM Information On Demand 2006 this week in Anaheim, Calif., exhibiting at Booth D501. For more information on Cognos and IBM joint solutions, visit its Web site.