Silicon Image Selects Cognos for Performance Management

-- Cognos enterprise planning and reporting capabilities to help Silicon Valley semiconductor design company streamline and automate business processes -- 


BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 30  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that Silicon Image, Inc. has selected Cognos' enterprise planning and reporting capabilities to automate existing spreadsheet-based business processes and improve reporting efficiencies.

Silicon Image is a leader in driving the architecture and semiconductor implementations for the secure storage, distribution and presentation of high- definition content in the consumer electronics and personal computing/display markets. To support its growth, the company wanted a modern, Web-based enterprise planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting solution that could easily pull data from its Oracle database and Oracle eBusiness Suite with secure access control and a documented audit trail.

"With Cognos, we will have a secure, familiar, spreadsheet-like environment to increase business process efficiencies with enterprise-level planning and reporting," said Kenny Gilbert, Director of Technology Services, Silicon Image. "Our team immediately felt connected to the flexible nature of the solutions and could quickly see how they could be applied beyond our finance group to operations for cost of goods budgeting, human resources and other areas."

Cognos Platinum Reseller Partner Merador is responsible for the enterprise-wide implementation.

"Silicon Image is taking a leading step forward to increase financial and operational visibility with a complete performance management solution," said Greg Herrera, Founding Partner, Merador. "We are fully committed to their success in implementing the Cognos solutions as they automate key business processes to meet their business analytics goals."

Enterprise planning and business intelligence are key capabilities of the Cognos Performance Management System, which combines technology, best practices, analytical applications and solutions, and a broad network of partners into a single performance management solution for customers.

"With Cognos' enterprise planning and reporting capabilities, Silicon Image will be able to simplify, connect and coordinate its planning efforts to support its growing business and accelerate progress towards business goals," said Doug Barton, vice-president, Product Marketing, Cognos Inc. "Our flexible interface allows Silicon Image to leverage the familiarity of spreadsheets, while dramatically improving plan reliability, security and integrity for increased visibility and control over the performance drivers of the business."

ABOUT SILICON IMAGE, INC.

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Silicon Image, Inc. is a leader in driving the architecture and semiconductor implementations for the secure storage, distribution and presentation of high-definition content in the consumer electronics and personal computing markets. Silicon Image creates and drives industry standards for digital content delivery such as HDMI, DVI, UDI and SATA leveraging partnerships with global leaders in the consumer electronics and personal computing markets to meet the growing digital content needs of consumers worldwide. The Simplay HD Testing Program provides compatibility testing for high-definition consumer electronics devices such as HDTVs, set-top boxes, audio/video receivers and DVD players, helping manufacturers to achieve compatibility and deliver the highest-quality HDTV experience to consumers. Silicon Image is the leading provider of proven semiconductor intellectual property solutions for high-definition multimedia and data storage applications. For more information, please visit http://www.siliconimage.com/.

ABOUT MERADOR:

Merador is a business solutions and software consulting firm headquartered in Burlingame, CA.  The company was founded and is managed by former business executives who have dealt with the same strategic and tactical challenges faced by decision-makers in the enterprise every day. The company excels at employing technology to give clients the visibility needed to both see and use information to maximum advantage. For further information, please visit: http://www.merador.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.

  Media Contacts:
  Carrie Bendzsa
  Cognos, 613-738-1440
  

  Doreen Maciak
  Lois Paul & Partners, 781-782-5832
  

  Investor Relations:
  John Lawlor
  Cognos, 613-738-3503
  

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