Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, and BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world’s largest management and technology consulting firms, have announced continued success in providing leading technology-enabled performance management solutions.
At the Cognos Global Partner Summit, Cognos announced BearingPoint as its Global Systems Integrator of the Year, the first global systems integrator consultants to gain Cognos BI certification, and plans to deliver integrated business intelligence (BI) and search solutions. Cognos’s Global Systems Integrator of the Year award recognizes BearingPoint’s broad capabilities and deep industry experience in leading customers across the marketplace through strategy, design and implementation of Cognos technology. Together, BearingPoint and Cognos have implemented systems and solutions that improve customers’ operations, decision-making, and profitability.
Additionally, BearingPoint has invested significant time in gaining Cognos certification, and its BI practice consultants are the first global SI consultants to achieve this high level of proficiency. Cognos certification allows Cognos partners to benchmark and verify their skills and abilities in delivering Cognos solutions and results to customers.
“We’re thrilled to be recognised by Cognos for our expertise in helping customers implement successful BI strategies,” said Joni Kahn, BearingPoint’s executive vice president of technology solutions. “We look forward to continuing to drive customer implementations for companies looking to bring Cognos’ proven BI technology to a broader audience.”
Cognos is also teaming with the BearingPoint’s Search Solutions practice to deliver integrated BI and search solutions which will help customers quickly gain access to the information they need, based on the Cognos 8 BI platform and Google’s Search Appliance technology.
BearingPoint and Cognos combine their expertise in technology implementation – each company brings a methodology, tools and techniques that incorporate industry-leading practices to help organizations identify, evaluate, capture and share intellectual capital for better decision making and performance management. Both firms work synergistically together to provide solutions that produce measurable and timely results and promote high customer satisfaction with their mutual clients.
“Organisations are looking for guidance from a systems integrator that has the skills and proven best practices to take a strategic approach to unlocking the power of BI for users,” said David Brierley, regional manager, Cognos Middle East and Africa. “BearingPoint’s extensive market expertise and deep knowledge of Cognos solutions has proven itself in many successful customer implementations. As enterprises expand on how they use BI tools such as with search capabilities, the need for the integration capabilities BearingPoint brings to the table becomes very important as we look to help customers deploy their BI and search initiatives.”
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software and services that help companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance.
About BearingPoint
BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE) is one of the world's largest providers of management and technology consulting services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations in 60 countries worldwide. Based in McLean, Va., the firm has approximately 17,500 employees and major practice areas focusing on the Public Services, Financial Services and Commercial Services markets. For nearly 100 years, BearingPoint professionals have built a reputation for knowing what it takes to help clients achieve their goals, and working closely with them to get the job done. For more information, visit the Company's website at www.BearingPoint.com.
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