For the last 10 years the market has been dominated by the Business intelligence software solutions Cognos and Business Objects, but Cognos with release 8 had been losing its position for the last three years. Now with the new release 10 Cognos has returned to its status as one of the leading products in the marketplace. [Read more...]
Cognos en SAS Institute score the most points
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IBM to Acquire Cognos to Accelerate Information on Demand Business Initiative
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A’dam – November, 12th 2007 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Cognos® (NASDAQ: COGN) (TSX: CSN) today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire Cognos, a publicly-held company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in an all-cash transaction at a price of approximately $5 billion USD or $58 USD per share, with a net transaction value of $4.9 billion USD. The acquisition is subject to Cognos shareholder approval, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. It is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008.
Tighter race in Business Intelligence software seen in 2008
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A’dam – January, 6th 2008 – As the amount of stored information increases further, the year 2008 will be the start of a slugfest among business intelligence software providers. Among the protagonists, not surprisingly, are IBM, Oracle and SAP. [Read more...]
Business Intelligence Software Growth Shows Dramatic Drop In U.S.
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Revenue for BI software exceeded $5.1 billion worldwide last year, Gartner said in a report released Thursday. Oracle, SAP, IBM, and Microsoft, meanwhile, have gone from making up just one-fifth of the market to owning two-thirds of it in a year, Gartner noted. That’s largely because Oracle acquired Hyperion, SAP nabbed Business Objects, and IBM acquired Cognos. Microsoft continues to grow in BI primarily from in-house developed software plus a few important smaller acquisitions, such as ProClarity.
Source: www.intelligententerprise.com
IBM’s Cognos Upgrades Business Intelligence Software Suite
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One theme of the release is ensuring the consistency and quality of data that resides throughout a company and is used for BI. The upgraded suite includes integration with IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary, which contains standard business terms defined by a company; another feature lets data modelers trace back the lineage of data using InfoSphere master-data management technology. They could see where data warehouse information used in a Cognos report came from, for example, and where that warehouse got the data from.
See the full article at Information Week.
BI: The Year in Review
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by Stephen Swoyer, a technology writer based in Athens, Ga.
Despite the tumult in the global financial markets, 2008 was relatively calm for BI professionals. In contrast to 2007, when the three biggest BI pure-play vendors (Hyperion, Business Objects, and Cognos) were acquired by larger, non-BI vendors, the year past was a sleepy one. There were the requisite acquisitions, to be sure, but nothing comparable to the domino-toppling wave of consolidation that swept the industry in 2007.
