Cognos Awards and Recognition

2008 BeyeNetwork Vision Award
for Business Impact

IBM Cognos customer Envision Credit Union won the 2008 BeyeNetwork Vision Award for Business Impact. The award recognizes the efforts of companies that have successfully used BI software and technology to positively impact their organizations. Envision Credit Union won in the Performance Management category for its project to improve the overall efficiency of finance department processes while simultaneously improving the quality and timeliness of reporting and analysis of business performance. The IBM Cognos TM1 solution armed Envision with more sophisticated, timely and detailed information to understand the bottom line impact of potential business decisions that ultimately result in superior performance. An example of the positive impact is illustrated through the reduction of monthly teller activity reporting: what used to take more than 20 manual labor hours now takes a mere 10 minutes.

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2008 CRM Market Leader

Cognos, an IBM Company was named a Market Leader in the BI category of the seventh annual CRM Market Awards. The awards honored the vendors, consultants, and end-user companies focused on creating and cultivating rewarding customer experiences and relationships through the sophisticated integration of people, processes, and technologies.

"CRM magazine is pleased to present the 2008 CRM Market Awards to those companies and individuals who are raising the bar in their customer relationship initiatives. These efforts are helping companies streamline business processes, maximize profitability, and provide more value to customers," said David Myron, editorial director of CRM magazine. "Congratulations to this year's award recipients. May they continue to raise the standard of CRM excellence."

Recipients were determined through an extensive three-month process and proprietary rating formula that involves industry analysts, financial and corporate information, product and functionality assessments, and scores reflecting customer satisfaction.

Cognos, an IBM Company has won an International Stevie Award for Best New Product or Service in the Computer Hardware and Software Category in The 2008 International Business Awards.

The International Business Awards are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in business. Introduced to market in January 2008, IBM Cognos 8 BI v3 IBM Cognos 8 BI v3 delivers the full spectrum of BI capabilities - reporting, query, and analysis; dashboards and scorecarding; business event management - from a single, open platform to drive better decision-making throughout the enterprise. Recipients of International Stevie Award trophies were selected from more than 1,700 entries received from organizations and individuals in more than 30 countries.

Cognos Awarded "Insurer's Choice" Awards from Financial Insights, an IDC Company, & Tech Decisions Magazine

TechDecisions Magazine and Financial Insights, an IDC company, unveiled its annual Insurer's Choice awards at the May 2008 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in Las Vegas. Cognos was ranked tops for "Analytics" in both the Property & Casualty and Life & Health market categories, marking the 2nd consecutive year Cognos took top prize.

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Cognos Wins IR Magazine Canada Grand Prix Award for Best Overall Investor Relations, Large Cap Companies.

The IR Magazine Canada Awards, now in their eleventh year, recognize the top investor relations practitioners at Canadian companies. The awards are based on an extensive independent research survey of analysts and portfolio managers who are each interviewed for 10 to 20 minutes on the qualities of corporate IR teams as well as the contribution made to them by senior management. Awards recognize top IR practitioners in several broad categories, including best IR by a CEO, best use of technology, and best overall investor relations.

IBM Cognos Go! Mobile wins Datamation 2008 Product of the Year

Cognos upgraded its wireless business intelligence software to support handhelds that run Windows Mobile OS. Naturally, this expanded the company’s user base, and likely helped IBM Cognos Go! Mobile win the Wireless Software category.

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Cognos Now! Wins SearchDataManagement.com Product of the Year for BI/Analytics

SearchDataManagement.com judges deem IBM Cognos Now! "at the top of the pack in innovation." Judges were particularly "impressed at the multi-functional appliance, shipped as a single box with many integrated functions…"

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CRM Magazine Names Cognos Leader in Business Intelligence in 2007 CRM Market Awards

The CRM Market Awards honor the vendors, consultants, and end-user companies focused on creating and cultivating rewarding customer experiences and relationships through the sophisticated integration of people, processes, and technologies.

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Cognos Executive named to VARBusiness’ Rising Stars: Executives to Watch list

Jennifer Francis, vice president of market development at Cognos, an IBM company, was named to the Rising Stars: Executives to Watch list as part of VARBusiness Women of the Channel awards program. Ms. Francis was recognized for helping Cognos penetrate the BPO and SAAS markets in her first year in the role.

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IBM Cognos Now! Selected to Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100

Features the top 100 "providers of supply chain services and technologies who are at the forefront of enabling the supply chain." The magazine specifically points to our IBM Cognos Now! solution, stating "Supply chain managers need to acquire, analyze and act on good information in real time, but they often lack the necessary enabling tools. Cognos aims to fill that gap with its Cognos Now! family of BI solutions. Results: Interactive, self-service dashboards and real-time information monitoring." 

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Cognos selected to Global Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies' 100 Great Supply Chain Partners list

This award is the end result  of a six-month poll in which the Magazine asked logistics and supply chain professionals to nominate vendors and service providers whose technology, logistics, transportation or consulting solutions have made a significant impact on their company’s efficiency, customer service and overall supply chain performance. More than 2,000 nominations were submitted in 2007 from small and large companies covering scores of different industries on five continents. Cognos was one of 100 companies that received the most qualified nominations.

Cognos Wins International Stevie® Award for Best Product Development Team

The Cognos product development team is being recognized for its R&D initiatives in the past year, particularly for the innovative development of the Cognos 8 Go! consumer modes. Extensions to the IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence platform, the consumer modes, including IBM Cognos Go! Mobile, IBM Cognos Go! Search and IBM Cognos Go! Office, help improve decision-making and increase business intelligence user adoption rates within an organization by letting users view and consume reports, analyses, and other BI content using familiar applications or devices, such as the BlackBerry® wireless platform from Research in Motion, search engines, MS Office applications, or Web browsers.

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Cognos has won the award for “Best Midmarket Strategy” at the Midsize Enterprise Summit Europe Event

This is the only industry award voted on solely by leading midmarket IT executives. Cognos demonstrated a high level of excellence in the midmarket with IBM Cognos Now!, a single, complete BI product that is prepackaged in a hardware appliance or hosted through the software-as-a-service model.

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Cognos was listed on Baseline’s 40 Fastest-Growing Software Companies 2006 list, based on sales growth between 2005 and 2006.

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Insurance Networking News and Financial Insights, an IDC company, unveiled the first annual "Voice of the Market" ranking for the insurance industry at the May 2007 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in Orlando, FL. In this ranking, the InsureTopTech, insurance carriers in the United States and Canada ranked the top insurance technology providers across several categories including "Keeping Insurers Informed Through Analytics", for which Cognos ranked first.

START-IT Magazine recognized Cognos as one of the Hottest Companies of 2007. Chosen as one of the industry's leading technology providers in manufacturing for the second year in a row, Cognos exhibited solid year-over-year financial growth, industry innovation and market leadership underpinned by the recent launches of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and manufacturing-specific Performance Blueprints. Cognos was also the first BI/PM vendor in manufacturing to introduce a true Mobile BI application.

Cognos has been named winner of the "Innovation that Matters in Government" award in the annual IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards competition, which recognizes IBM Business Partners for their ingenuity, innovation, customer satisfaction and outstanding achievements in providing on-demand business solutions.

A panel of BI experts put together by SearchDataManagement.com went over 16 of the leading products to determine the “best of the best” in the BI market based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. Celequest's LAVA is the industry's first BI hardware appliance designed to bring critical information to users at the lowest possible total cost of ownership.

START-IT Magazine recognized Cognos as one of the Hottest Companies of 2006. Chosen as one of the industry's leading technology providers in manufacturing, Cognos exhibited solid year-over-year financial growth, industry innovation and market leadership underpinned by the recent launches of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, IBM Cognos Go! and manufacturing-specific IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints, namely the IBM Cognos Sales & Operations Planning Blueprint, and the IBM Cognos Trade Promotion Management Blueprint.

Cognos Customer Mölnlycke Health Care Named to IDG's InfoWorld 100

Mölnlycke Health Care, one of the world's leading manufacturers of single-use surgical products to the healthcare sector, has been named to the InfoWorld 100 in recognition of its business intelligence initiative using Cognos and Sky Solutions, a Cognos partner and systems integrator. Mölnlycke Health Care standardized its highly sophisticated business reviews for all parts of the sales organization, creating a new generation of reporting based on Cognos technology, and saving thousands of staff hours per year, while providing accurate information to management, sales staff, finance professionals, and outside vendors worldwide.

Winners of IDG's InfoWorld 100 were formally announced in the November 13, 2006 edition of InfoWorld and are available online

Cognos Wins "Best of Information On Demand Showcase" As Part of IBM Information Management Awards

The awards program recognizes IBM Information Management Business Partners that demonstrate excellence in delivering exceptional business value for Information Management and providing cutting-edge solutions based on the Information Management software portfolio. The Information Management Awards were presented this week during the 2006 Information On Demand Conference, and Cognos received this award based on IBM Cognos 8 BI's exceptional business value.

Cognos Wins CRM Magazine's "CRM Market Leader" Award

In September 2006, Cognos was listed as one of CRM magazine's "CRM Market Leaders" for 2006. Cognos was recognized for its strong market presence, influence, innovation, and providing customer centric solutions. This is the fourth straight year Cognos has been named to the CRM Market Leaders listing. The CRM Market Leader award winners will be profiled in the October issue of CRM magazine

Cognos Named to InformationWeek 500

Cognos has been named to the 2006 InformationWeek 500, a list that recognizes achievements of corporate America's largest and most innovative users of information technology. The company was recognized for its innovation and emerging technology with IBM Cognos 8 BI and IBM Cognos Go! Search. According to InformationWeek publishing director, Fritz Nelson, "The InformationWeek 500 honors today's leading companies who set the benchmark for business technology strategies and projects."

IBM Cognos 8 BI wins eWEEK Excellence Award in Analytics and Reporting

On May 23, 2006, Cognos was awarded the eWEEK Excellence Award in the Analytics and Reporting category for IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. The product, recognized for being a complete, single-architecture solution, will be featured in an upcoming issue of eWEEK.

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. A panel of experts evaluates the entries, including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners – senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives. Eric Lundquist, editorial director for eWEEK, said, "New technology creates opportunities for vendors to react proficiently to the rapidly evolving demands placed on enterprise IT managers. eWEEK is proud to offer our readers solid recommendations for new innovative products that respond to these increasingly complex demands.”

Cognos Named a Finalist for the 2006 Mass Technology Leadership Awards

The Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council awards recognize Cognos for outstanding technology development, implementation, and leadership in the category of B2B Applications. The finalists were announced on June 28, and winners will be announced on October 11, 2006 in Boston. “The finalists for this year’s honors represent the spirit of innovation, the history of accomplishment and the future promise that define the Massachusetts technology community,” said Joyce Plotkin, president of the Mass Technology Leadership Council.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Data Modeler wins "Editor's Choice" Award

LOTUS ADVISOR editors chose the IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Data Modeler for IBM Lotus Domino as a winner of its "Cool New Tool" Editor's Choice Award at Lotusphere 2006. The awards honor the most innovative Lotus development and administrative tools showcased at the event.

IBM Cognos 8 BI Data Modeler for IBM Lotus Domino helps companies access and analyze information in Notes/Domino applications and databases. It provides a comprehensive view of information for BI reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and event management.

Cognos Recognized as a Finalist in the 2006 IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards

The IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards acknowledge the best solutions IBM Business Partners have to offer. As a finalist, Cognos is recognized for helping to set the standard for business excellence, unique solutions for On Demand Business, ingenuity, and customer satisfaction.

The Cognos nomination was critically assessed by a panel of IBM executives and leading industry and press analysts and deemed a finalist in the Information Management Solution category of business partners. Judges noted that Cognos performance management solutions are an “excellent example of transforming businesses to on demand.”

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Wins "Product of the Year" in BI

TechTarget's SearchCRM.com 2005 Product of the Year awards named IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence as the BI "Product of the Year." A prestigious panel of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants, in conjunction with the editors of TechTarget’s SearchCRM.com, judged more than 75 new product entrants and selected the IBM Cognos 8 BI based on its innovation, performance, functionality, value, and ease of integration into existing environments, use, and manageability.

According to SearchCRM.com, judges from the Business Intelligence category noted, “Cognos plays a prominent role in the BI and CPM suite markets. Its strength remains the combination of its CPM applications and its BI capabilities.”

Cognos Ranks in Canada's Top 100 Employers list for 2006

Now entering its sixth edition, Canada's Top 100 Employers is an annual guide to “best practices”
in recruitment and retention. Produced each year by Maclean's Magazine, the Top 100 focuses on interesting employers, both large and small, with innovative programs to attract and keep talented employees. Employers are compared to others in their industry and the winners are profiled in Maclean's each October.

As in the past, there are two key qualifications to be considered a top employer (1) the organization must be a leader in its industry in attracting and retaining quality employees;
and (2) the organization must offer good job prospects.

Cognos wins Network Computing Magazine's "Well Connected Award" for Business Intelligence

Cognos BI technology, which was reviewed in the October 2005 issue of Network Computing and garnered an Editor's Choice nod, has won the magazine's most prestigious and coveted award. The awards recognize products that improve the automation of human workflow processes and raise the bar for providing real-time data analysis capabilities to decision-makers. Cognos was cited as being "astoundingly powerful and simple to use."

Network Computing Magazine awarded Cognos its Editor's Choice honor in an October 2005 comparative review of leading business intelligence solutions.

The review cites Cognos BI’s excellence in data presentation and web-based reporting capabilities as key to its selection. Cognos BI scored the highest ranking with a 4.1 out of a possible 5, earning top scores for reporting dashboards and ad-hoc reporting, reporting delivery and OLAP presentation as well as winning a “permanent home” in Network Computing’s business applications lab.

Fifth win for support.cognos.com
Cognos was named as one of the Ten Best Web Support sites for 2005 by the Association for Support Professionals (ASP).

“By continuously offering new ways for customers to generate greater value from their Cognos solutions, the Cognos Support Web site serves as a ‘model of how to deliver support on the Web. The Cognos Software Services Web site is a forerunner in online customer support innovation and excellence. Cognos is clearly a technology leader driving some of the most sophisticated advances in the Web support field.”
- Jeffrey Tarter, executive director, ASP

Cognos Global Customer Service received a Finalist Recognition certificate for Best Customer Service Organization by The International Business Awards, also known as the Stevie Awards on May 18 2005.

The Stevies are the only global, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in the workplace and are hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” by the New York Post.

Cognos is the "Editor’s Choice" for Performance Management

Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) Series was selected as the winner in the 2004 DM Review Readership Award as the best business intelligence solution.

Cognos has been named to the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame^TM for breakthrough performance results between fiscal year 2002 and 2004.

Cognos Customer Support achieves prestigious Support Center Practices certification for third consecutive year.

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