Stories about: Cognos

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.