Appfluent and Cognos Partner to Improve Scalability of Business Intelligence Applications and Reduce TCO for Customers

Appfluent provides software for data usage and query workload analytics on the Cognos 8 BI Platform; Cognos to include Appfluent software and solutions in its services offerings for enterprise customers 


ROCKVILLE, Md., June 27  /PRNewswire/ -- Appfluent Technology, Inc., the pioneer and leader in workload and usage-analytics, and Cognos, Inc. (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced an extension of their strategic partnership agreement. Under the agreement, Cognos will utilize Appfluent software to help its enterprise customers deploy, manage and scale Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehouse applications.  Additionally, Cognos will include Appfluent's award-winning Product Suite as part of Cognos' Guardian Services.

Appfluent's software leverages the Cognos 8 BI platform to empower enterprise IT organizations with actionable insights to optimize query performance, rationalize database and storage infrastructure and mitigate unauthorized data access.  This optimization helps customers speed database response times by providing a better understanding of how users are accessing data and pinpointing which data is the most relevant across the database.

"As a long time customer of both Appfluent and Cognos, we are excited to see the expanded partnership between the two companies. We are eager to realize the benefits of continued product integration and joint solutions that this strategic partnership will certainly deliver. Today, we manage more than 3,000 Cognos users, and utilize the Appfluent Product suite as an operational standard and best practice. With Appfluent we have realized an estimated annual savings of more than $400,000, and an Appfluent ROI of just five months," said Steve Ring, Senior BI/ Data Warehouse Manager, HR Information Delivery Services, Pfizer, Inc.

Appfluent delivers usage and workload analytics via the Cognos 8 BI platform to support a variety of critical BI and data warehousing initiatives, including enterprise BI standardizations and migrations, query performance optimization, data consolidation and migration, and continuous non-disruptive management of the environment.

"Today's announcement is an important milestone in our partnership with Cognos. Cognos customers will now be able to access Appfluent software directly from Cognos as a part of Cognos Guardian Services. As a result, Cognos customers will now have more insight and guidance to improve their application and database performance, efficiently manage their resources, and effectively scale their environment," said Frank Gelbart, President and CEO, Appfluent Technology.

"We are pleased to be partnering with Appfluent to deliver analytical applications for enterprise IT via the Cognos 8 BI platform. The workload and usage-analysis delivered by Appfluent and Cognos 8 BI provides unprecedented insight for large organizations to more efficiently manage BI and data warehousing applications and infrastructure," said Mel Zeledon, Senior Vice President, Global Alliances, Cognos, Inc. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) delivers easy-to-use BI with the right context, through familiar interfaces, at the right time. For further information see: http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/index.html

About Cognos Guardian Services:

Cognos Guardian Services is a flexible services engagement model that lets customers combine internal resources with Cognos and partner expertise to maximize service value and project delivery. Led by a technical account manager, the services offered include review of key project checkpoints, optimized technology packages and application services. Further information is available at: http://support.cognos.com/en/consulting/services/pdf/cognos_guardian.pdf

About Appfluent Technology, Inc.

Appfluent Technology is the leading provider of enterprise business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse management software. Appfluent's software non-disruptively captures and correlates user activity, application data, and database information for detailed usage and workload analysis.

BI and data warehousing professionals rely on Appfluent's award-winning product suite to help resolve critical query performance issues, guide data consolidation and migrations projects, and mitigate regulatory risk. With these solutions, BI and data warehousing teams and the IT support staff rely on the Appfluent Product Suite to provide daily improvements in systems performance, quarterly savings from data consolidation and migration projects, and a 24/7/365 oversight for regulatory risks. For more information about Appfluent Technology, please visit the company's web site at http://www.appfluent.com/.

ABOUT COGNOS:

Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.

Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization's ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions -- How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? -- and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.

Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos 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. 

DATASOURCE: Appfluent Technology, Inc.



CONTACT:  Michael Dowell of Appfluent Technology, Inc.,

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