Friday | 5 September, 2008
Stories about: Cognos
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Contract management still in dark ages despite multimillion dollar deals 22/04/2008 11:48:14
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) announced the biggest ICT deals in the public sector last week including a $A22.9 million contract with Telstra for voice services. - +
SAP's BI chief juggles independence, integration 07/04/2008 10:08:21
Nearly three months after closing the biggest merger in its history, SAP has set the dual challenge of integrating Business Objects' BI tools more tightly with its enterprise resource planning software, while also maintaining the independence of those tools to appeal to non-SAP customers. - +
BI top of Aussie CIOs' priority lists 17/03/2008 12:03:27
For the third year in a row, business intelligence (BI) applications have been ranked the top technology priority in the 2008 Gartner Executive Programs survey of 1500 chief information officers (CIOs). According to Gartner, this is because CIOs know they must implement a BI strategy properly if they want to accomplish many other priorities, such as customer service improvement and legacy application modernisation. - +
Fruit merchant sues IBM over rotten patent protection 17/03/2008 10:09:13
IBM is facing a US$6 million patent-related lawsuit from Harry & David, an Internet retailer that was sued because it used an IBM e-commerce system that allegedly contained technology patented by two other companies. - +
BI remains a CIO priority ahead of application modernisation 11/03/2008 08:02:00
For the third year in a row, business intelligence (BI) applications have been ranked the top technology priority in the 2008 Gartner Executive Programs survey of 1,500 chief information officers (CIOs). - +
BEA customers welcome Oracle acquisition 05/03/2008 16:48:29
Oracle's seemingly endless buying spree may have alienated some customers, but its recent $US8.5 billion bid for BEA Systems is seen as a step in the right direction. - +
Put some business intelligence in your inbox 22/02/2008 11:42:03
Shortly after covering the integration of Cognos products into IBM's software division, I got a call from Microsoft, which wanted to discuss PerformancePoint Server, which it launched last year. I'm used to the fact that writing about one vendor's product will lead to interest from its competitors, but I decided to hear them out. Despite its claims to the contrary, Microsoft is still relatively new to BI, and it's interesting to see them go after a market in which they are not already dominant. - +
Open-source reporting goes corporate 20/02/2008 09:59:26
Just a few years ago, the world of open source packages for generating database reports was a quiet secret shared by programmers on a deadline. Anyone could spend a few minutes linking in a library to start generating relatively clean tables filled with data pulled from an SQL database. I've personally made a few clients happy by adding JasperReports to some projects with just a bit of XML and a JAR file. - +
How BI tools can help improve pizza delivery 08/02/2008 08:38:45
Pizza delivery seems simple. You call and someone takes your order and tells you, say, "20 minutes" -- which is what you tell your stomach and anyone else you may be sharing the pizza with. - +
IBM absorbs Cognos quickly, adds integrated BI bundles 07/02/2008 10:22:11
One week after completing its acquisition of Cognos, IBM Wednesday said it was ready with new product offerings that integrate some of its technologies with the business intelligence vendor's Cognos 8 software. - +
IBM adds fuel to Information on Demand strategy 07/02/2008 07:18:36
IBM announced the first results of its recently closed acquisition of business intelligence vendor Cognos, unveiling an array of product offerings and services that tie into its information-on-demand strategy.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
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CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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