Cognos

Cognos is an Ottawa, Ontario based company which makes business intelligence (BI) and performance planning software. It was founded in 1969 and employs 3,000 people. Cognos was previously called Quasar.

Cognos' Metrics Manager won the Intelligent Enterprise Award for the Best Business Performance Monitoring Solution 2004. Metrics Manager, which is a next-generation scorecarding technology, is aimed at corporate performance management. It is tightly integrated with its own Business Intelligence series of products which consist of tools like Impromptu, Powerplay and others, and also with the Enterprise Planning Solutions.

External link

• Official site