Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, has announced the winners of its 2006 Global Partner Awards.
At the Partner Summit 2006, Cognos’s annual global partner forum attended by over one hundred partners, BSG, Cognos’s Middle East and Africa partner, won the ‘Rising Star’ MEA award for its innovation, influence, and thought-leadership. BSG has focused on delivering business intelligence solutions and services to customers in the Middle East from 1995 and became a Cognos partner in 2005. Organisations in the region have realised the benefits of business intelligence and performance management systems, and, according to the latest IDC reports, the UAE and Saudi Arabia lead the business intelligence market, which is worth around US $ 25 million. The total Gulf market is worth around US $32-33 million and early adopters making use of BI’s analytical features are engineering much of its double-digit growth in the region.
“For years, Cognos has built a broad, global ecosystem of successful partnerships that helps our customers drive performance management through a blend of technology, product, and services offerings that best suits their needs,” said David Brierley, regional manager, Cognos Middle East and Africa. “Building on our recent innovations such as Cognos 8 BI, performance applications, and industry blueprints, our partners have achieved new successes and demonstrated even greater depth of industry expertise. BSG’s market presence, its demonstrable BI expertise and domain knowledge has made an incredible contribution to our work in the region and we are proud to honour their efforts.”
BSG has helped companies like United Electronics Company, Canon Middle East, Al Esayi Electronics, Geant, Contax Group and Gulf Food Industries gain strategic business advantage on Cognos solutions. Organisations need scalable and enterprise wide solutions and metrics and performance management has become increasingly important in the overall BI strategy. Cognos 8 BI is the industry’s first product that provides the complete range of BI functionality on a single, proven web services-based architecture.
“BSG is delighted and honored to receive the prestigious award,” said Nasser Tufail, of BSG. “We have won this award within six months of our partnership with Cognos and this highlights the synergies between the two companies. Working closely with Cognos, we look forward to leveraging our expertise and to driving performance management to the next level.”
At the Cognos Partner Summit 2006, more than 500 attendees met to discuss best practices, share selling solutions, and network with their peers to learn how to increase selling effectiveness.
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 brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions -- How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.
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.
