Cognos and IBM Form Global Strategic Alliance to Deliver Integrated Solutions to Boost Customer Performance

Cognos and IBM Form Global Strategic Alliance to Deliver Integrated Solutions to Boost Customer Performance

Cognos and IBM today announced an expansion of their relationship to help customers integrate their business processes across the enterprise and gain greater insight into business performance. The new Strategic Alliance agreement includes joint development, marketing, and sales of SOA-based solutions to help customers optimize their analytics capabilities leveraging industry-specific best practices.

As part of the agreement, IBM will increase its Cognos consultant capabilities to support the activities and solutions described in this announcement. Cognos will further enhance and optimize its business intelligence products for IBM hardware, software, and services. Cognos will also deliver IBM’s WebSphere* and Information Management* technologies as part of the preferred reference architecture for Cognos 8 Special Edition, a complete BI solution covering reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboarding, and event management.

Open Standards Through SOA
IDC predicts the market opportunity for SOA, including software, services, and hardware, will reach $21 billion by 2007. Both IBM and Cognos fully embrace and support SOA to deliver open-standards business applications to any number of users regardless of their existing technology infrastructure. As a result, customers have the opportunity to easily overcome one of the key challenges of implementing an SOA infrastructure: managing, integrating, and unlocking value from their business information — an organization’s most valuable asset.

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