Stories about: Applix

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Cognos ships BI update on eve of IBM buyout 16 January, 2008 07:34

Cognos shipped the latest version of its business intelligence platform on Tuesday, in what could be the last update before the company's sale to IBM becomes final.
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In memoriam: the ISV 24 December, 2007 07:00

The world of business software continued its inexorable march toward Total Consolidation in 2007. If IBM was off the mark in 1943 when it (supposedly) predicted a world with only five computers, it might have better luck today with a similar prediction about the software industry.
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Cognos rebrands Applix technology 12 December, 2007 08:29

Cognos has rebranded the financial performance management software it gained through the acquisition of Applix earlier this year and provided a road map for the product line.
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IBM agrees to buy Cognos for US$5B 13 November, 2007 08:14

IBM has agreed to buy business intelligence software vendor Cognos for around US$5 billion in cash.
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Former SAS Institute regional president joins Cognos 10 September, 2007 10:23

Former Asia Pacific vice president for the SAS Institute, Phillip Beniac, has taken on the role of regional head of business intelligience vendor Cognos.
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Cognos' Applix buy extends BI reach in finance 07 September, 2007 09:00

Cognos will acquire performance management software vendor Applix in a US$339 million deal that will see the business intelligence vendor expanding its reach in the financial performance market.
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Freight business delivers business analytics via dashboards 23 August, 2007 08:38

The largest independently owned courier and express freight business in Australia, Allied Express, is undertaking an IT project to improve its financial and operational planning, reporting and analytics, with added visibility into key performance indicators through dashboards.
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Business Objects to buy financial software vendor 24 April, 2007 08:38

Business Objects has agreed to buy Cartesis, a maker of finance and performance management software, for Euro 225 million in cash, or about US$300 million (AUD$360 million), the companies announced Monday.
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High-speed databases rev corporate apps 18 January, 2006 10:00

Relational database management systems have become all but ubiquitous in enterprise computing since 1970, when they were first devised by E.F. Codd. But as powerful and flexible as those databases are, they've proved inadequate for a handful of ultrademanding applications that have to process hundreds or thousands of transactions per second and never go down. Now, the very-high-performance database technologies that sprang up to serve these niche markets, such as options trading and telephone call processing, are poised to move into mainstream computing.
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The right information, right now 14 October, 2004 15:57

Ask any corporate executive the secret to success and there's a good chance you'll hear that the management team must work on the same goals using the same assumptions and facts -- with transparency to the CEO and board. Yet most companies don't work that way, setting the stage for missed opportunities, hidden problems, and political gaming that uses siloed data and its analysis as a departmental weapon rather than as an enterprise asset.
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Performance managers seek consensus 22 June, 2004 08:09

Major enterprise software vendors have formed a coalition to rationalise customer expectations of analytics software offerings and bring order to the proliferation of unrestrained three letter acronyms.