Cognos and IBM Extend Strategic Alliance to Deliver On Demand Workforce Performance Management

Cognos and IBM Extend Strategic Alliance to Deliver On Demand Workforce Performance Management

Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM), today announced the two companies have extended their global strategic alliance to deliver a workforce performance management solution through IBM’s world-leading Human Resources Business Transformation Outsourcing (BTO) service.

Under terms of the agreement, IBM has selected Cognos 8 Workforce Performance as a standard analytic and reporting solution to be delivered within its full-service Human Capital Management (HCM) outsourcing solutions portfolio. The addition of Cognos 8 Workforce Performance extends IBM services to its clients by teaming their HCM capabilities with valuable analytic insight into workforce trends and influencing factors within the talent management cycle. This includes visibility into key performance areas such as workforce strength, employee turnover, compensation and incentives, talent segmentation and performance ratings.

IBM selected Cognos’ next-generation analytic application because of the solution’s packaged workforce content, and its ability to quickly adapt to a wide range of customer and business requirements. The Cognos 8 Workforce Performance solution is a configurable analytic application designed to reflect a company’s human resources best practices, leveraging a rich library of pre-packaged reports and analytics on a wide range of key workforce metrics, all of which can be easily modified or extended with the evolving information needs of the business.

Through this alliance, IBM BTO customers will benefit from an efficient outsourced HR services model that can enable the organization to proactively identify and prioritize headcount needs, optimize and align workforce investments to corporate goals, improve employee job satisfaction, nurture career growth, and reduce turnover.

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