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 Leah MacMillan, vice president of product marketing, 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. Based on a proven, Web services-based SOA, the Cognos 8 BI platform and Cognos 8 Go! Mobile will bring BI to any user, whether at a desk or in the field, to improve organizational performance.” “Cognos’ innovation continues to impress me. We have been wanting to access Cognos reports via our BlackBerry handsets, and I know once my users see how this can work, they will begin using this functionality every day during their normal course of business,” said Chris Framel, applications group manager, City of Albuquerque, New Mexico. “The deep functionality is exactly suited for my remote workers’ needs, and our IT department will benefit from this seamless new way of accessing Cognos 8 BI information with zero administration overhead. This type of application not only allows more business users to get their hands on the information they need to improve performance, but it continues to reduce the overall cost of ownership for our BI solution.” About Cognos: Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions -- How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies. Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos 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 www.cognos.com.
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