IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Resources: Customer, Partner & Press Views
The launch of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence has drawn praise from IBM, customers and leading technology companies around the world.
IBM Customers
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
“The vision represented by this BI platform demonstrates significant leadership and commitment to Cognos’ customers.” ~ Louis Barton, Director of Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, Frost Bank
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Austrian Airlines Group (AUA)
“The seamless integration between the OLAP and relational reporting capabilities is very impressive in IBM Cognos 8 BI and will let users analyze data even more extensively and quickly than they could before.”
~ Manfred Tiefenbacher, Head of Development and Integration, Custom and Cargo Systems, Australian Airlines Group
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Banco Galicia
“Testing IBM Cognos 8 BI reinforced our confidence in Cognos’ future product roadmap. A single BI product on a single architecture, delivering all the necessary BI capabilities to users is a development that interests us tremendously.” ~ Analía Mroz, Data Warehouse Project Coordinator, Banco Galicia’s
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Manpower
“The integration of analysis capabilities with IBM Cognos Planning is fantastic and allows for the instantaneous creation of cubes. The new features should provide our users with better visibility into plans, the ability to compare plans to actuals and take appropriate action in a very timely manner.” ~ Vivian Adashek, Manager, U.S. Finance, Manpower
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Schneider National, Inc.
“Cognos business intelligence is a strategic and essential part of our business.” ~ John Hasenzahl, Director of Knowledge Services and Data Management at Schneider National
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Smart Systems for Health Agency
“With IBM Cognos 8 Reporting, we will have the ability to conduct drill-through analysis directly from reports to help speed the delivery of key healthcare information. In a business where access to timely information can be a life and death situation, breakthrough improvements such as this are very much appreciated.” ~ Tony Schieman, Development Manager, Reporting and Development Environment, SSHA
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United Agri Products , Inc.
“There are some powerful advancements in the reporting capabilities within IBM Cognos 8 BI that further expand the overall flexibility and ease-of-use we’ve come to appreciate through our Cognos implementation.”
~ Jim Benshoof, Chief Information Officer, United Agri Products, Inc
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OEM Partners
Onyx Software.
“The significant increase in functionality in IBM Cognos 8 BI allows our customers to deploy sophisticated analytical solutions that will enable them to make decisions about critical customer processes.” ~ Mary Reeder, Chief Technology Officer, Onyx Software
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Manugistics
“ Leveraging IBM Cognos 8 BI's fully integrated business analytics functionality with Manugistics' best-of-breed supply chain and revenue management solutions provides our joint customers with the kind of 'right time' information they need to enable proactive, intelligent, and ultimately profitable decisions across the supply chain.” ~ Janie West, Vice President, Alliances and Partnerships, Manugistics
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SSA Global
“Cognos 8 BI will provide new features and functionality that will allow customers to further leverage their investment in SSA CPM. It's the reason SSA Global standardized on Cognos for CPM solutions.” ~ Cory A. Eaves, Chief Technology Officer, SSA Global
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Technology Vendors
HP
“HP and Cognos will deliver to customers industry-leading solutions with IBM Cognos 8 BI and HP infrastructure. This will help enterprises take advantage of a business and data warehousing infrastructure that can scale to help transform endless amounts of disparate data into a competitive weapon for driving faster decisions, increased revenues, improved customer service and streamlined operations.” ~ Bruno Castejon, Director of Business Intelligence Solution Alliances, Technology Solutions Group, HP
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“With IBM Cognos 8 BI, our joint customers will benefit from a combined solution that delivers a comprehensive range of reporting, analytics and actionable scorecards available on Sun's Solaris 10, the most advanced operating system on the planet, that can effectively scale to handle the exponential growth of supported users, problem complexity and data volume.” ~ Stephen Borcich, Vice President, Partner Marketing, Sun Microsystems
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“With IBM Cognos 8 BI, users now have direct access to relational data sources, which enables continuous analysis of up-to-the-minute integrated data in a Teradata Active Data Warehouse. This is a substantial benefit to our customers.” ~ Todd Walter, Chief Technology Officer, Teradata
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Resellers
Creative Computing, Inc.
“Our customers know they can't meet their performance goals using point solutions built on yesterday's architecture. More and more we're seeing the demand for a single solution that offers the complete range of capabilities that they can deploy, modify, and add to as their needs evolve. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only offering on the market that lets our customers achieve that. We're tremendously excited about its potential.” ~ David Doucette, President and CEO of Creative Computing, Inc.
DSS de Mexico
“DSS applauds Cognos for being first to market with a BI solution that finally addresses what global enterprises have been asking for: all of the BI functionality together in a single product and on a single platform.” ~ Jesús Saucedo, General Manager, DSS de Mexico
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“Because we've been involved with the IBM Cognos 8 BI beta, our consultants have had a chance to put the product to the test and we are looking forward to assisting our customers with the roll out in September.” ~ Frank J. Marsella Sr, Senior Pice President, Sales and Marketing, Niteo Partners
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“Simpson Associates considers this release a comprehensive and world class generation of business intelligence that is more powerful, easier to deploy and offering enriched functionality with improved returns on investment for our customers.” ~ John Simpson, Director, Simpson Associates
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“Sky Solutions is proud to embrace IBM Cognos 8 BI and is ready to move forward with what we believe will be the most advanced, complete and innovative platform for business intelligence and corporate performance management. Cognos 8 BI is positioned to become the ultimate standard in reporting, analytics, and business intelligence.” ~ Francois Ross, Director, Southeast Region, Sky Solutions
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Business Process Management Providers
EMC
“EMC's Business Process Management products offer global enterprises a streamlined approach to addressing the broad spectrum of processes they face on a daily basis. By embedding this capability with Cognos' leading analytics and reporting functionality, EMC and Cognos are delivering a truly coordinated framework for optimizing business processes.” ~ Balaji Yelamanchili, Vice President and General Manager, Content Management, EMC Software Group
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“With the launch of IBM Cognos 8 BI, Cognos has effectively set a new standard for excellence in performance management, due in large part to the solution's advanced services-oriented architecture and open data strategy.” ~ Martyn Christian, Chief Marketing Officer, FileNet
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“We are pleased to see Cognos embrace our WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation platform as part of its IBM Cognos 8 BI launch, and look forward to continue working together to help organizations respond more quickly to market trends and competitive threats and improve operational efficiencies.” ~ Inhi Suh, Director of Business Innovation and Optimization, IBM
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“Cognos' strong analytics and reporting capabilities coupled with Savvion's business process management expertise give customers the enhanced benefit of actionable business intelligence.” ~ Shawn Price, President and Chief Executive Officer, Savvion
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Press
DM Review
“Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides the complete range of BI capabilities in a single product, on a single architecture... Based on the proven Cognos alerting capability, IBM Cognos 8 BI offers the industry's only business event management... Cognos 8 BI also enables extended self-service across BI capabilities, alleviating IT resources and allowing users to work with personalized, consistent information using familiar interfaces that fit their needs and skills.”
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TDWI Online
“Users are decidedly enthusiastic about IBM Cognos 8's integration, and many cite additional performance and usability improvements that they feel help make the suite a much more attractive package. From a customer perspective, [Cognos 8] looks to be a winner.”
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CXO Today
“While competing solutions require separate tools to view different types of data, IBM Cognos 8 BI uniquely delivers a single metadata layer and a single query engine, providing customers with a single, trusted place for all relevant data and a complete and consistent view of any business issue or driver.”
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