Cognos

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Cognos
Type	Public
Founded	1969
Headquarters	Ottawa, Ontario
Key people	Rob Ashe, President and CEO
Industry	business intelligence,performance management
Products	Cognos 8 BI; Cognos 8 Planning; Cognos 8 Controller; Cognos 8 Workforce Performance; Cognos Go! Family
Revenue	$877.5 million USD (2006)
Employees	3,500 (2006)
Website	http://www.cognos.com

Cognos (TSX: CSN, NASDAQ: COGN) is an Ottawa, Ontario based company which makes business intelligence (BI) and performance management software. Founded in 1969, Cognos employs almost 3,500 people and serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos was originally known as Quasar and adopted its current name in 1982. It has since acquired 4Thought, Relational Matters, LEX2000, DecisionStream, NoticeCast, Adaytum and Frango.

Most recently, Cognos acquired Celequest, which operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cognos. Celequest offers real time, event based, business intelligence dashboards. Celequest was awarded the Silver award in SearchDataManagement.com’s 2006 Product of the Year for LAVA, a BI hardware appliance designed to bring critical information to users at the lowest possible total cost of ownership.

Cognos 8 BI, which was launched in September 2005, combines the features of several previous products: ReportNet, PowerPlay, Metrics Manager, Noticecast, and Data Manager (formerly DecisionStream). Cognos 8 BI has won numerous awards including the eWEEK Excellence Award in Analytics and Reporting, the LOTUS ADVISOR "Editor's Choice" Award, and TechTarget's SearchCRM.com 2005 Product of the Year.

Recently, Cognos has been named to the InformationWeek 500, chosen as one of START-IT Magazine's "Hottest Companies of 2006" and won "Best of Information On Demand Showcase" as part of the IBM Information Management Awards.