(, ) is an
Ottawa ,
Ontario based
Company which makes
Business Intelligence (BI) and performance management
Software . Founded in 1969, Cognos employs almost 3,500 people and serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos was originally known as '''Quasar''' and adopted its current name in 1982. It has since acquired
4Thought ,
Relational Matters ,
LEX2000 ,
DecisionStream ,
NoticeCast ,
Adaytum ,
Frango , and
Celequest .
In January 2007, Cognos acquired Celequest, an
Operational Intelligence company that operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cognos. Celequest offers real time, event based, business intelligence dashboards.
Cognos 8 BI, which was launched in September 2005, combines the features of several previous products: ReportNet, PowerPlay, Metrics Manager, Noticecast, and Data Manager (formerly DecisionStream). Cognos 8 BI has won numerous awards including the eWEEK Excellence Award in Analytics and Reporting, the LOTUS ADVISOR "Editor's Choice" Award, and TechTarget's SearchCRM.com 2005 Product of the Year.
In 2007, Cognos was named one of
Canada's Top 100 Employers , as published in
Maclean's magazine, one of only a handful of software development companies to receive this honour.
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Recently, Cognos has been named to the InformationWeek 500, chosen as one of START-IT Magazine's "Hottest Companies of 2006" and won "Best of Information On Demand Showcase" as part of the IBM Information Management Awards.
Framework Manager
Cognos PowerPlay
PowerPlay Transformer
Report Studio
Analysis Studio
Metrics Studio
Event Studio
- Cognos Analyst
- Cognos Contributor
- Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
- →Cognos 8 BI Tools Include:
- →Analysis Studio (Explore data to answer business questions)
- →Report Studio (Professional Report Authoring)
- →Query Studio (Ad Hoc Report Authoring)
- →Metric Studio (Monitor, Analyze, and Report on KPI)
- →Event Studio (Action based agents notify decision makers as events happen)
- Cognos 8 Planning
- Cognos 8 Controller
- Cognos 8 Workforce Performance
- Cognos 8 Data Manager (formerly DecisionStream)
- Cognos Go! family ( Search , Office, Mobile)
- Cognos Finance (formerly LEX2000)
- Cognos ReportNet
- Cognos PowerPlay for Windows
- Cognos PowerPlay Transformer
- Cognos 7 Impromptu
- Cognos 7 Impromptu Administrator
- Cognos 7 Impromptu Web Reports
- Cognos 7 Decision Stream
- Cognos 7 Notice Cast
- Cognos Performance Applications for Oracle Apps
- Cognos Performance Applications for SAP
- Cognos Performance Applications for People Soft
