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Cognos and IBM to Jointly Tout SOA-based Solutions

The market opportunity for SOA, including software, services, and hardware, will reach USD 21 billion by 2007, according to an IDC prediction. To tap into this opportunity, IBM and Cognos have joined hands for the development, marketing, and sales of SOA-based solutions to help customers optimize their analytics capabilities leveraging industry-specific best practices.

"We're happy to extend our strategic alliance with IBM to drive innovation in the marketplace for our joint customers," said Rob Ashe, president and chief executive officer, Cognos. "Both companies share a vision for providing cost effective, integrated business solutions for enterprise companies. With this alliance, our organizations will be more tightly aligned and in an optimal position to help our customers succeed with their BI and performance management initiatives."

As part of the agreement, IBM will increase its Cognos consultant capabilities to support the activities and solutions as described above. Cognos will further enhance and optimize its business intelligence products for IBM hardware, software, and services. Cognos will also deliver IBM's WebSphere* and Information Management* technologies as part of the preferred reference architecture for Cognos 8 Special Edition, a complete BI solution covering reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboarding, and event management.


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