About Cognos NV/SA, an IBM company



Who is Cognos?

Cognos, an IBM company, is the world leader in Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management for the enterprise. Our solutions let companies improve and direct corporate performance by enabling all of the key steps in the management cycle—from planning, budgeting and consolidation, to measuring and monitoring performance, to reporting and analysis. Cognos is the only company to support all of these key management activities with a complete solution that spans all of the essential components of CPM—enterprise planning, scorecarding, and business intelligence.

Founded in 1969, Cognos employs over 3,500 people and serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Whether they choose to apply Cognos software strategically on an enterprise scale, or leverage it as a point solution to address key operational requirements, our customers use Cognos to better monitor, understand, and drive the successful performance of their business. Cognos customers are involved in every industry sector including automotive, banking and insurance, energy and natural resources, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.

Cognos in Belgium & Luxembourg

Cognos solutions are sold directly and are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. These solutions are supported by an experienced and award-winning field force of more than 2,000 customer-facing personnel.

Cognos NV/SA, the Belux office of Cognos Inc. opened in 1988, realizes revenues of over 16 million EUR. An experienced and motivated Cognos staff of 40 is responsible for the local marketing and commercial activities together with a network of partners in management consulting and system integration. Cognos Belux supports over 400 local customers including leading organisations such as Agfa, Belgacom Mobile-Proximus, DHL, Estée Lauder, Glaverbel, Inbev, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Johnson & Johnson, KBC Bank & Verzekeringen, Kinepolis, Manpower, Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, SCA Packaging, SD Worx, Solvus Group, Swift, Telenet, Telindus, Toyota Motor Europe and Umicore.

Cognos has grown from about 380 million $ to 860 million $ in just 5 years and has about 30% market share in Belgium & Luxembourg.