Cognos uses Excel to tap its BI tools One of business intelligence software's biggest challenges is getting folks to drop an Excel-based culture where spreadsheets are swapped via email.

Cognos Corp. will introduce a new BI tool that joins five of its existing products and adds support for multidimensional data.

Cognos Analytics Authoring is currently a self-paced video course offering report authoring capabilities including advanced formatting and filtering, prompt generation, and paging controls. The ...

Cognos upgrades its flagship business intelligence system, while stepping closer to final approval of its merger with IBM. What will the changes mean for end users?

Cognos is shipping version 8.2 of its Cognos 8 Planning software that, through enhanced integration with the Cognos 8 Business Intelligence platform, will help solution providers develop financial ...

IBM executives said they expect a majority of sales of the pre-integrated solutions to go through IBM and Cognos channel partners. They also promised to maintain Cognos's channel program at least ...

“Rocket continues to impress, with Discover 1.5 giving business users an enhanced set of data visualization and reporting tools. The latest version also opens up opportunities for IBM Cognos BI 10 and ...

Cognos Inc. and Business Objects SA have unveiled new BI products. Cognos introduced ReportNet, a query and reporting engine designed from the ground up to support Web services, Java, and XML. At ...

Cognos Usage is captured by an audit database within the Cognos environment. The BICC has provided reports and dashboards with information including report usage and adoption, user trends with ...

Alan Rottenberg, Cognos' senior vice president of business intelligence, denied the company had been forced to make the acquisition because it could not deliver its own data-mining tools.