IBM Launches Cognos 8 v4 – New Business-Driven Performance Management Software

Posted by Mauricio on Oct 2, 2008 at 10:12 PM | Comments

SYDNEY, October 2, 2008 – Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company, and a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today unveiled IBM Cognos 8 v4 which extends IBM’s Information on Demand strategy to help customers improve their ability to engage the business user through a more dynamic and interactive experience, inform their decision making with greater context and relevance and align their strategy and operations through complete visibility to targets, plans, forecasts and metrics across finance and operations.

IBM Cognos 8 v4 lets organisations easily and securely extend access to trusted information to fully engage a diverse group of employees, customers and partners across financial and operational divisions and processes. Richer BI and performance management user capabilities such as enterprise planning, dashboards, analytics and reporting combine with an enhanced enterprise-class platform, flexible business modeling, and consumer-oriented interfaces to help business users gain access and interact with the right information needed for decision making to optimise business performance.

Casual business users, business managers, and executives in all sizes of organisations are grappling with information overload and the rapid pace of change in today’s globally connected economy. These types of business users represent 80% of workers in average organisations, according to Wayne Eckerson, director of TDWI Research at the Data Warehousing Institute.* They need quick access to relevant information, whether they are in the office or on the road, to make informed decisions that improve financial and operational visibility and drive overall performance.

New self-serve flash-based dashboard, mobile and search capabilities in IBM Cognos 8 v4 help business users quickly drive decisions through flexible, consumer-oriented interfaces that let them access and interact with relevant performance information using familiar applications or devices. These include BlackBerry®, Symbian or Windows Mobile devices, enterprise search engines or desktop productivity applications.