Cognos (formerly Cognos Incorporated, now part of IBM) is an Ottawa, Ontario based company that makes business intelligence (BI) and performance management software. Founded in 1969, Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos was originally known as Quasar and adopted its current name in 1982. On January 31, 2008, Cognos was officially acquired by IBM.
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Hexaware Blogs ... Cognos ReportNet. About Blog. Latest Posts ... The Cognos Reportnet blog will give a detailed explanation starting from ...blogs.hexaware.com/Cognos (formerly Cognos Incorporated, now part of IBM) is an Ottawa, Ontario based company that makes business intelligence (BI) and performance management software. Founded in 1969, Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos was originally known as Quasar and adopted its current name in 1982. On January 31, 2008, Cognos was officially acquired by IBM.
The Boston Globe has reported that a federal grand jury investigation has been launched regarding alleged financial and other improprieties on the part of Cognos and Massachusetts State Speaker of the House Salvatore DiMasi, regarding several multimillion dollar state contracts.
Cognos 8 BI, which was launched in September 2005, combines the features of several previous products: ReportNet, PowerPlay, Metrics Manager, Noticecast, and Decision Stream.
Acquisitions made by Cognos
In September 2007, Cognos announced that it would be acquiring Applix. It had previously acquired 4Thought, Relational Matters, LEX2000, DecisionStream, NoticeCast, Adaytum, Frango, Databeacon and Celequest, an Operational Intelligence company.
Products
- Business Intelligence
- IBM Cognos 8 BI
- Analysis Studio (Explore data to answer business questions)
- Report Studio (Professional Report Authoring)
- Query Studio (Ad Hoc Report Authoring)
- Metric Studio (Monitor, Analyze, and Report on KPI)
- IBM Cognos Now! Monitor
- Extend BI
- IBM Cognos 8 BI - Event Studio (Action based agents notify decision makers as events happen)
- IBM Cognos Go! Search
- IBM Cognos Go! Office
- IBM Cognos Go! Mobile
- IBM Cognos PowerPlay Transformer
- IBM Cognos 8 Data Manager (formerly DecisionStream)
- Financial Performance Management
- IBM Cognos 8 Planning
- Cognos Analyst
- Cognos Contributor
- IBM Cognos 8 Controller
- IBM Cognos TM1 (formerly Applix TM1)
- IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer (formerly Applix TM1 Executive Viewer and Temtec's Executive Viewer)
- IBM Cognos Finance (formerly LEX2000)
- IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint (dimension management tool released November 27, 2008)
- IBM Cognos Series 7
- IBM Cognos PowerPlay for Windows
- IBM Cognos PowerPlay Web
- IBM Cognos PowerPlay Transformer
- IBM Cognos 7 Impromptu
- IBM Cognos 7 Impromptu Web Reports
- IBM Cognos 7 Decision Stream
- IBM Cognos 7 NoticeCast
- Performance Applications
- Cognos Performance Applications for Oracle Apps
- Cognos Performance Applications for SAP
- Cognos Performance Applications for PeopleSoft
- Analytic Applications
- IBM Cognos 8 Workforce Performance
- IBM Cognos 8 Finance
Federal investigation
In August 2007, the Boston State Information Technology division awarded Cognos a $13 million dollar contract for performance management software. This followed a 2006 $4.5 million dollar state contract awarded to Cognos by the Massachusetts State Department of Education. These contracts came under scrutiny from the State Ethics Commission and the office of state Inspector General Gregory Sullivan when several conflicts of interest surrounding State Speaker Salvatore DiMasi and his accountant Richard Vitale came to light. In the course of these investigations, a payoff from former Cognos sales executive Joseph Lally in the amount of $600,000 was found to have been made to Vitale's company WN Advisors. Vitale and WN Advisors were not registered as state lobbyists and did not disclose the payments, the bulk of which were apparently made on the same day that the state wired funds for the multimillion dollar contracts to Cognos. The disposition of the funds has not been disclosed and the State has rescinded the contracts. IBM, which did not own Cognos when these contracts went into place, has refunded all paid monies and is cooperating with the state investigations. A second close associate of DiMasi's, lawyer Steven Topazio, was placed on a two year $5,000 a month retainer for unspecified purposes. This retainer stopped the same month as the second Cognos contract was awarded.
