Cognos to Collaborate with Nokia to Deliver Mobile Business Intelligence to Customers Worldwide

  
    
  
  
    
      Cognos® (NASDAQ: COGN) (TSX: CSN), the world 
      leader in business intelligence and performance 
      management solutions, today announced that it has extended its 
      mobile business intelligence solution, Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, to support 
      Nokia Eseries devices and Nseries multimedia computers based on S60 3rd 
      Edition on Symbian OS. Cognos will collaborate with Nokia to deliver the 
      solution to customers worldwide.
    
    
      Cognos 8 Go! Mobile is the industry’s first 
      business intelligence solution designed to make it convenient to view, 
      consume, and interact with highly relevant performance information on 
      mobile devices. Cognos 8 Go! Mobile securely delivers enterprise data 
      through an intuitive interface optimized for each different type of 
      mobile platform. It now brings timely decision-support information 
      directly to Nokia Eseries devices and Nseries multimedia computers so 
      decision makers who need to access BI content across the enterprise, 
      either through a mobile device or on the Web, are able to use the same 
      consistent, trusted source of operational information.
    
    
      According to Gartner, “worldwide combined 
      shipments of PDAs and smartphones totaled 57.4 million units in 1H07, a 
      36% increase compared with the same period in 2006.” 
      They “forecast combined shipments of PDAs and 
      smartphones for all of 2007 to reach about 129 million units, up 42% 
      compared with 2006.”(a)
    
    
      Within this growing market, existing Cognos 8 BI customers such as Stockmann, 
      a leading department and fashion store chain in Finland, will be able to 
      use Nokia devices based on S60 3rd Edition to 
      further leverage their BI investments and receive information and 
      insight to make business decisions from any location at any time, with 
      little additional investment. Companies that already use Nokia handsets 
      based on S60 for mobile workers will be able to deliver greater value to 
      those employees by providing immediate interaction with key business 
      information presented in BI reports.
    
    
      “Our beta tests of Cognos 8 Go! Mobile with 
      our Nokia Eseries devices showed us the power of the product’s 
      rich-client mobile environment. We could easily drill through report 
      content, get live data and work with it offline, all with the benefit of 
      existing access control parameters which are preserved in the Cognos 
      environment,” said Ilkka Pirttimaa, Leading 
      IT architect, Stockmann. “Having the IT 
      department write one report and deliver it to end users for consumption 
      and interaction across desktops, the Web, or mobile devices is a 
      powerful advantage that increases business efficiency by contributing to 
      a consistent view of business information for more informed 
      decision-making.”
    
    
      This version of Cognos 8 Go! Mobile is purpose-built to support Nokia 
      devices based on S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS. 
      It lets executives or front-line mobile workers securely access and 
      interact with timely and personalized operational and strategic 
      performance information automatically over the air. Even while users are 
      offline, the product has a rich mobile client that fully leverages the 
      proven capabilities of S60 devices and the Cognos 8 platform, for 
      decision-making anytime, anywhere. These capabilities include common 
      security and access to all BI reports, graphs and analysis within a 
      single report authoring environment, without requiring modification or 
      duplication of reports. For further information about Cognos 8 Go! 
      Mobile see: www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/go-mobile.html.
    
    
      “With the introduction of the Cognos 8 Go! 
      application, Cognos and Nokia are extending business mobility beyond 
      email to yet another new area, business intelligence,” 
      said Mika Laitinen, director, partner programs, Enterprise Solutions, 
      Nokia. “Easy access to pertinent business 
      intelligence data while working on Nokia Eseries devices and Nokia 
      Nseries multimedia computers will help our business customers increase 
      productivity and gain competitive advantage by collaborating and 
      communicating regardless of time and place."
    
    
      “Cognos customers who use Nokia devices based 
      on S60 now have access to mission-critical performance information 
      wherever and whenever they need it,” said 
      Leah MacMillan, vice president of product marketing, Cognos. “Together 
      with Nokia, we are empowering employees to securely monitor the pulse of 
      the business remotely and act on key business information in an informed 
      and timely manner. The net result is improved performance for 
      sustainable competitive advantage.”
    
    
      (a)Gartner, “Dataquest Insight: Worldwide PDA 
      and SmartPhone Shipments Soar 45.7% in 2Q07”, 
      by Robert Cozza, October 2, 2007.
    
    
      Pricing and Availability:
    
    
      The solution is available direct from Cognos or its network of resellers 
      worldwide as a role-based, separately priced add-on option for Cognos 8 
      BI customers.
    
    
      For further information about Cognos 8 Go! Mobile see: www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/go-mobile.html.
    
    
      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.
    
    
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