from DSSResources.comCognos PowerPlay(R) Test Drive allows business travelers to analyze air travel performanceBURLINGTON, Mass., Sept. 13, 2004 -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, today announced Cognos PowerPlay(R) Test Drive. Cognos PowerPlay Test Drive uses current data from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics so users can analyze flight on-time performance for any combination of dimensions -- carrier name, flight origin, destination, date, and departure time. For example, users can quickly identify the number of flights that were late on Fridays, for a given carrier, at any time of day, between any of the included cities. "At one point or another, we have all been frustrated by an unforeseen delay in travel plans," said Karen Williams, vice president of marketing, Cognos. "We have applied Cognos PowerPlay, the world's most widely deployed OLAP tool, to an application that every business person can understand -- on- time air travel performance. The powerful analytical capabilities in the solution will let users quickly and easily analyze air carrier performance trends over time, for any major carrier, between major U.S. cities, using only a Web browser. We chose to integrate PowerPlay Test Drive on HP ProLiant blade servers because of the ease-of-use, flexibility, and scalability industry standards offer for our customers." "Cognos PowerPlay's multi-server, multi-tier architecture makes it ideal for use on industry-standard HP ProLiant blade servers," said Bruno Castejon, director of business intelligence solutions and alliances, HP Enterprise Solutions Alliances. "As performance, reliability, and scalability are top issues for our customers, HP offers the broadest portfolio of industry- standard blade systems, including servers, management software and services, to help customers achieve their business objectives." Recently topping the $1 billion revenue mark since its introduction in 1992, Cognos PowerPlay offers a high degree of user flexibility to navigate huge amounts of data including third party OLAP solutions. With key analysis features, all delivered through a zero footprint user interface, business users can easily understand the performance of their organization. It is part of the Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence Series, including Cognos ReportNet and Cognos Metrics Manager. It provides industry-leading business and production reporting, dashboarding, scorecarding, analysis, event detection and notification, and data integration -- delivering critical business data to the broadest range of users. Demos of Cognos PowerPlay on HP ProLiant BL20p and BL40p blade servers will be available for enterprise customers starting today. To try the Cognos PowerPlay Test Drive, visit: http://www.cognos.com/testdrive/powerplay/index.html. About Cognos: Cognos, the world leader in enterprise business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance. Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage -- Corporate Performance Management (CPM) -- achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence. Cognos serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence and performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com. Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and product information are available on the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com and at PR Newswire's site at http://www.prnewswire.com
Antonietta Iafrate Cognos, 781-313-2454 antonietta.iafrate@cognos.com Don Jennings Lois Paul & Partners, 781-782-5756 don_jennings@lpp.com |