Cognos announces support for HP Neoview

Customers will be able to use Cognos 8 BI and Cognos LAVA to access strategic information stored on HP Neoview to make more informed and effective business decisions.

Cognos 8 BI is a groundbreaking product that provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with a consistent, accurate view of information to better manage performance. As a single product that easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources, Cognos 8 BI is a robust technology foundation for BI standardisation and performance management.

By extending the reach of Cognos 8 BI to include HP Neoview, companies gain access to a new enterprise-class data warehouse and its powerful, scalable performance to better improve business intelligence and performance management initiatives.

Cognos LAVA is the industry's first BI appliance and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables companies to provide up-to-the-minute business information to operational workers, empowering decision-makers across the organization to spot emerging trends, immediately take action when problems arise and positively affect their company's bottom line.

"With this announcement, Cognos is extending its commitment by providing customers with the complete range of BI capabilities - reporting, ad hoc query, analysis, dashboarding, scorecarding, and event management - for data in HP Neoview," said Graham Walter, Vice President UKMEA, Cognos, during a visit to Dubai yesterday.

"Cognos solutions will help customers to access important information on demand, delivering reports and analytics in minutes or seconds for faster, more effective business decisions. Customers want help making better decisions and managing and protecting business-critical information throughout its lifecycle," he added.

"By working with Cognos, HP helps customers leverage the combined strengths of HP Neoview, Cognos 8 BI and Cognos LAVA to access and act on the right information assets at the right time."