Cognos extends the reach of business intelligence across enterprise

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• BI search: Cognos Go! Search Service, a new BI search capability, will enable users to instantly find relevant, strategic enterprise information available through Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. With a familiar, browser-based search that ranks results based on user priorities, Cognos Go! will deliver users an intuitive and efficient way of quickly finding BI information and data presented in reports, analyses, dashboards, metric information, and events across the organization

• Extended Cognos Office Connection: In addition to the ability to embed refreshable reports within Microsoft® Excel®, users can now view, interact with, and refresh Cognos 8 BI reports, analyses, and metrics within Microsoft PowerPoint® and Excel. This ensures centralized control and manageability of information and helps extend the reach of trusted BI content to more users within a familiar environment without requiring additional IT support. Cognos Office Connection enables users to enhance Microsoft Office documents with accurate, rich data, and share those documents and BI content throughout the organization.

• Access to mySAP™ and Siebel™: The new Cognos 8 Report Packs for mySAP FI/CO (for SAP R/3® data) and Siebel CRM extend the value of current enterprise investments for customers by providing business users, for the first time, the ability to combine in one report or dashboard, historic data from the data warehouse with current data in mySAP and Siebel CRM transaction systems without additional coding. As a result, organizations achieve the most complete view of enterprise performance while eliminating costs and effort required for separate operational reporting projects. Cognos 8 Report Packs also deliver pre-defined content for more than 60 commonly used reports to provide immediate access to mySAP and Siebel CRM data within a business context. The Cognos Data Adapter provides one-click connectivity into mySAP and Siebel, delivering secure and trusted pathways to build additional reports. The Cognos 8 Report Packs and Cognos Data Adapter extend underlying functionality provided by Composite Software.

• Certified SAP NetWeaver® Support: Cognos 8 BI received updated certification for SAP NetWeaver, allowing customers to access data in the SAP® Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), deploy Cognos 8 BI on the SAP Web Application Server, and display information through the SAP NetWeaver Portal. Customers can extend beyond reporting to create robust dashboards and active scorecards, and conduct deep analysis, dimensional reporting, and business event management on the SAP infrastructure. Additionally, Cognos continues to deliver self-service capabilities to SAP NetWeaver users by providing out-of-the-box support for more than 80 additional functions, many of which are not available natively in SAP NetWeaver. Cognos 8 BI provides end users with a single place to go for all BI across the enterprise by bridging numerous data sources, such as multiple SAP BW InfoProviders, multiple instances of SAP BW, and non-SAP BW data (including mySAP and other relational and OLAP sources). (See Cognos SAP Fact Sheet at http://www.cognos.com/news/releases/2006/0327_1_factsheet.pdf)

• Additional Platform and Data Support: Cognos also offers updated support for HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i, Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005, BEA WebLogic Server® 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise (ASE) 15, Teradata® Warehouse 8.1, ORACLE® Database 10g v2, and Netezza Performance Server® system.

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.

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