IBM Unveils Cognos Strategy, Targets Information on Demand Business Growth

IBM Unveils Cognos Strategy, Targets Information on Demand Business Growth

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled an expanded business strategy and roadmap—bolstered by the company’s acquisition of Cognos—to help clients unlock the business value of information and use it for competitive advantage to address emerging, industry-specific business opportunities. With the addition of Cognos, more than 35,000 employees across IBM’s global software, hardware, services and research organizations are united in support of the company’s global Information on Demand business strategy.

Today’s announcement features an array of new and enhanced joint IBM-Cognos solutions, products and services from across the company that enable organizations of all sizes to gain better insights from their data, improve decision-making, and optimize business performance, including:
10 new and enhanced IBM solutions for banking, retail, healthcare, government, life sciences and manufacturing industries.
Six pre-integrated IBM-Cognos product offerings that enable companies to use business intelligence to improve overall business performance.
Information on Demand Infrastructure Services to help clients plan, design and deploy a resilient enterprise data, storage and content management environment.

The new offerings extend IBM’s end-to-end portfolio of Information on Demand software, hardware and services. These capabilities will extend IBM’s ability to provide customers with the right information they need when they need it, along with key business insights to use for competitive advantage in response to changing market demands.

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