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Cognos, a leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced Cognos Go! Search Service, a new BI search capability that will enable users to instantly find relevant, strategic enterprise information available through Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. With a familiar, browser-based search that ranks results based on user priorities, Cognos Go! will deliver users an intuitive and efficient way of quickly finding BI information presented in reports, analyses, dashboards, metric information, and events across the organization. "BI is the business solution most closely and consistently linked with increased business performance," said Henry Morris, group vice president and general manager at IDC. "Augmenting business intelligence applications with search capabilities represents an important development in performance management. With search functionality, end users can easily tap into the wealth of information available through BI solutions to quickly find resources and data to help improve decision making and enhance corporate performance." Based on the proven, Web Services and SOA-based Cognos 8 BI platform that supports large data sources, thousands of users, and millions of reports, Cognos Go! enables relevant enterprise performance information to be more easily and quickly accessible to more users. Cognos Go! Search Service delivers: * Easy search: While users easily search for BI content using simple keywords, Cognos Go! works behind the scenes to search the full data content of reports, not merely titles, descriptions, or metadata. Cognos Go! uses fuzzy matching and word stemming to help users automatically fine-tune search terms. In addition, Cognos Go! leverages the Cognos 8 BI open architecture to publish BI information to XML. * Most relevant data: Through its sophisticated ranking and contextual support of search criteria, Cognos Go! delivers the most relevant data. In addition, users through their own familiar language can search for relevant information and then narrow results further by refining the search context. Users can also find related BI information directly within reports using contextual search prompts. * Fast results: Cognos Go! fully indexes existing BI content and supports the ability to specify search criteria using industry-standard tips and tricks to help customers quickly find the right information. Cognos Go! works with Cognos 8 BI, a groundbreaking product that provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with a consistent, accurate view of information to better manage performance. Cognos 8 BI provides up-to- date reports, key performance indicators at-a-glance, and the ability to dive more deeply into information about operations, resources, customers, and finance, for a complete view of the business and data. Cognos Go! provides a trusted shortcut through keyword search to help people immediately gather the right information and take action. "We can all appreciate the ease and speed that come with finding information or answers to our questions by using traditional Internet search tools," said Leah MacMillan, vice president of product marketing, Cognos. "With Cognos Go!, we can deliver traditional search benefits to the world of BI. Now, Cognos 8 BI users will have one-click access to meaningful, relevant, and consistent data which will help improve productivity and the quality of decision making." Cognos Go! Search Service will be available in May, 2006. More information can be found at its Web site.