Cognos Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in New Analyst Report Evaluating Business Intelligence Platforms.

Cognos is positioned in the Leaders quadrant of both Gartner, Inc.'s new Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant and the recent Corporate Performance Management Suites Magic Quadrant. Gartner evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

According to Gartner, 'leaders are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.' Business Intelligence, as defined by Gartner, is the access to and analysis of quantitative information sources to deliver insight that empowers decision makers. BI Platforms enable users and developers to build BI applications. Gartner defines the 20 capabilities of a BI Platform within three categories: Development and Integration, Information Dissemination, and Analysis.

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise groundbreaking capabilities to better manage performance by delivering a consistent, accurate view of all business information. As a complete, flexible product, Cognos 8 BI easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources. Its simplified BI environment improves user adoption, enables better decision-making, and provides a robust foundation for departmental BI and enterprise BI.

'The value of having scorecarding, reporting, and analysis integrated into one product with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is immense and allows us to do business differently,' said Louis Barton, director of Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, Frost Bank. 'With Cognos' advanced analysis capabilities, we are able to gain visibility into customer behavior, uncover new revenue opportunities and support decision-making with the latest information.'

'Cognos 8 BI represents another innovation for Cognos, delivering a full range of capabilities from reporting and analysis to scorecarding, dashboarding, query, and more, all on one architecture,' said Rob Ashe, president and CEO, Cognos. 'We believe our position in the Leaders quadrant confirms the benefit customers receive from our 16 years of BI leadership, and underscores our unique capabilities to support business processes, standardize BI initiatives, and drive performance management.'

Leading independent analyst firms have consistently positioned Cognos as a BI and performance management leader, including the recent Gartner Corporate Performance Management Suites Magic Quadrant.