This will deliver business intelligence to more users and enable informed decision-making and higher business productivity
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, has previewed Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, a new business intelligence solution that will bring information directly to mobile device users for right-time decision making.
Cognos 8 Go! Mobile represents Cognos' next milestone in making BI accessible to more people and enabling higher adoption of business intelligence for enhanced decision making and improved organizational performance. To further enable faster and more effective decisions, Cognos offers additional access options that bring BI to familiar working environments of every worker. Cognos 8 Go! Search Service also helps users easily and instantly find strategic BI metrics and information.
"Mobile device deployment continues to be a top agenda item for most enterprises," said Jack E. Gold, founder and principal analyst, J. Gold Associates, a strategic analyst firm covering the mobile market. "In fact, in the next three years, 75 per cent of all enterprises are expected to have wireless deployments. Moving beyond e-mail to business critical apps, particularly those allowing better real time decision making, will provide users with a big leap in productivity. Extending BI to mobile users, such as with Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, will enable the workforce to make high value decisions that will greatly enhance enterprise efficiency, and ultimately profits."
Existing BI solutions are limited in the wireless environment because they assume desktop capabilities. For example, users experience difficulties scrolling and expanding cells within a large spreadsheet, lack of BI style interactivity with PDFs, slow download and response times with HTML, or no access at all when out of network coverage. Cognos 8 Go! Mobile leaps past these approaches to deliver a rich mobile-client interface designed for business intelligence that allows anyone to use a handheld device to read and interact with Cognos 8 BI reports and metric information.
Cognos and Research In Motion (RIM) have also formed a technology alliance to deliver Cognos 8 Go! Mobile to BlackBerry users worldwide in early 2007. With Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, existing Cognos 8 BI customers will be able to use BlackBerry handsets to further leverage their BI investments and receive information and insight to make business decisions from any location at any time, with little additional investment. Companies that already use BlackBerry handsets for mobile workers will be able to deliver greater value to those employees by providing immediate access to key business information presented in BI reports.
"Enabling Cognos 8 Go! Mobile on the BlackBerry platform will provide a powerful mobile BI solution for our mutual customers," said Alan Panezic, vice president, BlackBerry Solutions, RIM. "Mobile Business Intelligence can offer clients a powerful edge in business performance, helping them access and focus on key information. We are pleased to be working with Cognos to bring this exciting new innovation to market on BlackBerry."
"Cognos 8 Go! Mobile is a new way to get BI on the move, and represents an important phase of Cognos' strategy to increase broad user adoption of BI throughout organizations," said Graham Walter, vice-president for UK, the Middle East and South Africa, Cognos. "Cognos 8 Go! Mobile goes way beyond current market offerings and will deliver an unprecedented rich view of key business information, allowing employees to monitor the pulse of business remotely, and enabling them to make decisions remotely."
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About Cognos:
Cognos, a leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software and services that help companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance.
Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage - Corporate Performance Management (CPM) - achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence and performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
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