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Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced it will host "The Web Services Imperative: Modern BI Architectures" -- on Tuesday, May 10th at 2:00 p.m. EDT. This executive Web seminar will showcase the critical importance of a Web Services-based architecture to modern business intelligence solutions, featuring a presentation by Bill Hostmann, Vice President of Gartner, Inc. In many BI implementations, research shows that a large part of the cost of ownership is the time and effort associated with duplicating existing enterprise infrastructure in the business intelligence environment -- including duplicating security, recreating metadata, and building a new portal. During the seminar, attendees will learn how to eliminate duplication and cost by leveraging existing infrastructure, and why using a scalable Web Services architecture allows organizations to confidently deploy business intelligence that meets the broadest range of user needs, both present and future. Through its modern Web Services architecture, Cognos offers a powerful business intelligence solution that meets the needs of today's enterprise business intelligence deployments. The Cognos architecture leverages core Web application technology including J2EE, SAP NetWeaver, and the Microsoft .Net framework, together with modern, open SOAP, XML, and WSDL standards. Additionally, an open data strategy broadly leverages existing investments companies have made in data assets and data integration strategies, including Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Extract, Transform and Load (ETL). "Our Web Services strategy demonstrates why we believe Cognos is the leader in BI -- offering a modern, built-from-the-ground-up Web services architecture, together with the data flexibility and breadth that customers are seeking," said Jennifer Francis, Cognos vice president of business intelligence. "The foundation for our success with Cognos ReportNet, it was designed specifically for enterprise-scale BI, providing increased efficiency and business agility. It provides a powerful and sustainable path to companies that wish to realize the cost benefits associated with the standardization of enterprise reporting and business intelligence." To register for this seminar, please visit: http://www.cognos.com/techtalk/architecture/.