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Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced it is extending its open data strategy for enterprise reporting to support BI standardization by integrating Ascential MetaBroker from Ascential Software Corporation with Cognos ReportNet. Together, Cognos and Ascential Software will continue to help customers derive maximum value from their corporate data and drive corporate performance management. Through a strengthened partnership with Cognos, Ascential Software will develop an Ascential MetaBroker for universal metadata exchange with Cognos ReportNet. This seamless access to metadata will give business users confidence that the data they query and analyze is accurate, timely, and relevant to their needs. "Robust, end-to-end enterprise data integration functionality is critical to successful BI implementations, and we are excited to extend our Cognos relationship," said Bob Zurek, vice president, advanced technologies and product management, Ascential Software. "The deeper interoperability between the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite and Cognos' enterprise reporting and analysis offerings will help enable our mutual customers to fully realize the ROI they demand from their business intelligence initiatives." Through its modern Web services architecture, Cognos offers an open data strategy to leverage existing investments companies have made in capturing data assets and data integration strategies. Through active partnerships with Ascential Software and other data integration solution providers, Cognos strengthens ReportNet's appeal to meet the broad user and diverse reporting requirements of the enterprise. "Cognos is pleased to extend the depth and reach of our alliance with Ascential Software," said Patrick O'Leary, Cognos vice president of strategic alliances. "The combination of Ascential Software and Cognos enables intuitive query and analysis of accurate information - increasing the speed of information delivery and enabling better decision making. We look forward to helping our shared customers drive more value from their enterprise to help increase profitability."