60 http://www.prwebpodcast.com A Top 30 Stream of COGNOS Press Releases (in OGG format) via PRWeb podEditor@emediawire.com (PRWeb) podMaster@emediawire.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:50:18 -0700 COGNOS http://www.prweb.com/prwebrss.gif 130 49 http://prwebpodcast.com Copyright PRWeb International, Inc. en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A Top 30 Stream of COGNOS Press Releases (in OGG format) via PRWeb A Top 30 Stream of COGNOS Press Releases (in OGG format) via PRWeb podEditor@emediawire.com PR Web PRWeb no http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb455200.htm http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb455200.htm Cognos Workforce Resource Management Blueprint provides service-based organizations with best-practices to improve workforce utilization. [PRWeb Oct 25, 2006] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb455200.htm Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:03:06 -0700 podcrew@extrahoop.com business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced the launch of a new performance solution designed to help organizations better manage workforce resources and improve workforce utilization with Cognos 8 Planning and Cognos 8 BI. Service-based industries such as retail stores, restaurants, hotels, and hospitals are particularly challenged to manage the process of effectively allocating employee resources to meet customer-service demands. Service-oriented internal functions that provide shared services to the enterprise are also challenged to meet the needs of internal clients. The new Cognos Workforce Resource Management Blueprint provides staffing managers with a Web-based planning process and the associated visibility to forecast workforce requirements based on customer demand across the global scope of the organization. "We have integrated Cognos enterprise planning across marketing, engineering, production and finance operations and are just beginning to extend our implementation to a workforce planning project across Qualcomm," said Robert Loreto, Senior Manager, Finance Systems, Qualcomm CDMA Technology group. "This new blueprint helped us provide a valuable headstart to capitalize on industry best-practice, quickly increase visibility, make more efficient and effective use of human resources and eliminate disconnected decision-making across the staffing process." The Blueprint delivers a process anchored in industry best-practices that helps managers determine headcount requirements based on activity levels and gain real-time visibility to cumulative variances in the staffing requirements which may impact key business metrics, such as customer satisfaction, from a financial and operational perspective. "CFOs and CIOs should consider looking to Cognos' blueprints as a way to improve the ROI on their performance management investments. Cognos' Performance Blueprints are based on pre-built business processes and drivers. This can drive improved ROI on performance management," said David O'Connell, Senior Analyst, Nucleus Research. "These Blueprints have the added benefit of improving breadth of adoption which can enhance a company's standardization efforts by promoting uniformity across the enterprise. With the shrinking workforce and competition for good workers, companies need to both retain the good workers and deploy them optimally. The Workforce Resource Management Blueprint can help companies use performance management for this with less custom code development."* Staffing managers can use the Workforce Resource Management Performance Blueprint to eliminate 'best-guessing,' and: • Determine headcount requirements by activity, based on highly flexible methods that map to the key business drivers of the organization • Set staffing effectiveness ratings by activity for each employee • Streamline entry of employee shift details to reduce schedule creation time • Vary employee pay rates • Set additional pay multiples for national holidays by employee by day and; • Automatically generate detailed financial implications of the staffing schedule. Through these capabilities staffing managers can allocate the correct... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb455200.htm]]> CARRIE BENDZSA Cognos Unveils New Performance Solution for Workforce Resource Management business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced the launch of a new performance solution designed to help organizations better manage workforce resources and improve workforce utilization with Cognos 8 Planning and Cognos 8 BI. Service-based industries such as retail stores, restaurants, hotels, and hospitals are particularly challenged to manage the process of effectively allocating employee resources to meet customer-service demands. Service-oriented internal functions that provide shared services to the enterprise are also challenged to meet the needs of internal clients. The new Cognos Workforce Resource Management Blueprint provides staffing managers with a Web-based planning process and the associated visibility to forecast workforce requirements based on customer demand across the global scope of the organization. "We have integrated Cognos enterprise planning across marketing, engineering, production and finance operations and are just beginning to extend our implementation to a workforce planning project across Qualcomm," said Robert Loreto, Senior Manager, Finance Systems, Qualcomm CDMA Technology group. "This new blueprint helped us provide a valuable headstart to capitalize on industry best-practice, quickly increase visibility, make more efficient and effective use of human resources and eliminate disconnected decision-making across the staffing process." The Blueprint delivers a process anchored in industry best-practices that helps managers determine headcount requirements based on activity levels and gain real-time visibility to cumulative variances in the staffing requirements which may impact key business metrics, such as customer satisfaction, from a financial and operational perspective. "CFOs and CIOs should consider looking to Cognos' blueprints as a way to improve the ROI on their performance management investments. Cognos' Performance Blueprints are based on pre-built business processes and drivers. This can drive improved ROI on performance management," said David O'Connell, Senior Analyst, Nucleus Research. "These Blueprints have the added benefit of improving breadth of adoption which can enhance a company's standardization efforts by promoting uniformity across the enterprise. With the shrinking workforce and competition for good workers, companies need to both retain the good workers and deploy them optimally. The Workforce Resource Management Blueprint can help companies use performance management for this with less custom code development."* Staffing managers can use the Workforce Resource Management Performance Blueprint to eliminate 'best-guessing,' and: • Determine headcount requirements by activity, based on highly flexible methods that map to the key business drivers of the organization • Set staffing effectiveness ratings by activity for each employee • Streamline entry of employee shift details to reduce schedule creation time • Vary employee pay rates • Set additional pay multiples for national holidays by employee by day and; • Automatically generate detailed financial implications of the staffing schedule. Through these capabilities staffing managers can allocate the correct... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb455200.htm]]> 00:15:00 no http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb441043.htm http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb441043.htm Rich client will deliver business intelligence to more users, optimize access to relevant BI information, and enable informed decision-making and higher business productivity [PRWeb Sep 25, 2006] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb441043.htm Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:19:38 -0700 podcrew@extrahoop.com business intelligence and performance management solutions, today previewed Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, a new BI solution that will bring decision-support information directly to mobile device users for right-time decision making. Cognos 8 Go! Mobile represents Cognos’ next milestone in making BI accessible to more people and enabling higher adoption of business intelligence for enhanced decision making and improved organizational performance. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) delivers easy-to-use BI with the right context, through familiar interfaces, at the right time. To further enable faster and more effective decisions, Cognos offers additional access options that bring BI to familiar working environments of every worker. Cognos 8 Go! Search helps users easily and instantly find strategic BI metrics and information. Cognos 8 Go! Office lets users view, interact with, and refresh Cognos 8 BI reports, analyses, and metrics within Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Previewed today, Cognos 8 Go! Mobile will help users make more informed decisions in context to quickly improve individual effectiveness and organizational performance when mobile, while enabling IT to further leverage existing investments in Cognos 8 BI to continue lowering the overall cost of ownership. “Mobile device deployment continues to be a top agenda item for most enterprises,” said Jack E. Gold, founder and principal analyst, J. Gold Associates, a strategic analyst firm covering the mobile market. “In fact, in the next three years, 75% of all enterprises are expected to have wireless deployments. Moving beyond e-mail to business critical apps, particularly those allowing better real time decision making, will provide users with a big leap in productivity. Extending BI to mobile users, such as with Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, will enable the workforce to make high value decisions that will greatly enhance enterprise efficiency, and ultimately profits.” – Cognos 8 Go! Mobile takes business intelligence and productivity to the next level – Existing BI solutions are limited in the wireless environment because they assume desktop capabilities. For example, users experience difficulties scrolling and expanding cells within a large spreadsheet, lack of BI style interactivity with PDFs, slow download and response times with HTML, or no access at all when out of network coverage. Cognos 8 Go! Mobile leaps past these approaches to deliver a rich mobile-client interface designed for business intelligence that allows anyone to use a handheld device to read and interact with Cognos 8 BI reports and metric information. The user-friendly and intuitive client will also deliver: • Author once – BI report authors can write a report once, and every user can access it regardless of language, locale or consumption approach (Web, search, mobile, desktop productivity... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb441043.htm]]> Amy Shanler Cognos Previews Cognos 8 Go! Mobile business intelligence and performance management solutions, today previewed Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, a new BI solution that will bring decision-support information directly to mobile device users for right-time decision making. Cognos 8 Go! Mobile represents Cognos’ next milestone in making BI accessible to more people and enabling higher adoption of business intelligence for enhanced decision making and improved organizational performance. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) delivers easy-to-use BI with the right context, through familiar interfaces, at the right time. To further enable faster and more effective decisions, Cognos offers additional access options that bring BI to familiar working environments of every worker. Cognos 8 Go! Search helps users easily and instantly find strategic BI metrics and information. Cognos 8 Go! Office lets users view, interact with, and refresh Cognos 8 BI reports, analyses, and metrics within Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Previewed today, Cognos 8 Go! Mobile will help users make more informed decisions in context to quickly improve individual effectiveness and organizational performance when mobile, while enabling IT to further leverage existing investments in Cognos 8 BI to continue lowering the overall cost of ownership. “Mobile device deployment continues to be a top agenda item for most enterprises,” said Jack E. Gold, founder and principal analyst, J. Gold Associates, a strategic analyst firm covering the mobile market. “In fact, in the next three years, 75% of all enterprises are expected to have wireless deployments. Moving beyond e-mail to business critical apps, particularly those allowing better real time decision making, will provide users with a big leap in productivity. Extending BI to mobile users, such as with Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, will enable the workforce to make high value decisions that will greatly enhance enterprise efficiency, and ultimately profits.” – Cognos 8 Go! Mobile takes business intelligence and productivity to the next level – Existing BI solutions are limited in the wireless environment because they assume desktop capabilities. For example, users experience difficulties scrolling and expanding cells within a large spreadsheet, lack of BI style interactivity with PDFs, slow download and response times with HTML, or no access at all when out of network coverage. Cognos 8 Go! Mobile leaps past these approaches to deliver a rich mobile-client interface designed for business intelligence that allows anyone to use a handheld device to read and interact with Cognos 8 BI reports and metric information. The user-friendly and intuitive client will also deliver: • Author once – BI report authors can write a report once, and every user can access it regardless of language, locale or consumption approach (Web, search, mobile, desktop productivity... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb441043.htm]]> 00:15:00 no http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb423674.htm http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb423674.htm Security assessment demonstrates Cognos’ commitment to providing foundation for trusted BI and performance management. [PRWeb Aug 14, 2006] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb423674.htm Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:55:09 -0700 podcrew@extrahoop.com business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced the results of a recent security evaluation on Cognos 8 Business Intelligence performed by Symantec Corporation. Cognos 8 BI helps enterprise customers worldwide continue to progress BI standardization and performance management initiatives with increased confidence in secure information delivery and access throughout the organization. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence has gone through an independent and detailed security evaluation conducted by Symantec. According to the report, the overall design of Cognos 8 BI employs a robust architecture for secure reporting and analysis. The security assessment also revealed that Cognos understands sound security practices and has surpassed industry best practices by designing a secure architecture and framework for reporting and analysis applications. The audit concluded that, at the time of the assessment, “none of the capabilities assessed contained high risk instances of common web application vulnerabilities.” “As security subject matter experts, the Symantec Consulting Services organization is focused on helping companies increase their knowledge of security and other IT risks that impact them today to enable them to effectively meet the requirements of their customers,” said Charles Johnson, vice president, global consulting, Symantec. “By leveraging Symantec application security experts to assess the Cognos 8 BI security architecture, Cognos has further demonstrated its commitment to ensuring its products continue to meet customer requirements for securing their most important assets.” Cognos 8 BI offers enterprise customers a comprehensive foundation to address BI security concerns, including the areas of authentication, access control, data-level security, application firewall, and encryption: • Authentication: Cognos 8 BI delivers pre-built integration with leading security providers and security APIs for custom security systems to enable simultaneous user authentication and logon to any number of namespaces, which is a key security criteria according to Symantec. Unlike other BI providers that still rely on their own security maintenance, Cognos 8 BI reduces the complexity, time, and costs of administering and maintaining multiple security systems by enabling customers to leverage “best of breed” security providers and in-place application security. • Access Control: Cognos 8 BI enables establishment of granular user access rights from within Cognos or a third-party security provider. This authorization is centralized to simplify administration of disperse user communities and does not burden IT administrators to manage multiple security schemes. As a result, IT can grant or deny permissions, perform BI activities, and track/audit usage for select users, groups, and roles. Customers can leverage this control to ensure government and industry compliance requirements and reduce IT costs for maintaining authorization to BI capabilities. • Data-level Access Rights: Cognos 8 BI enables security of all BI objects and information, from folders, subject areas, individual reports, analysis, metrics, scorecards and dashboards, events and alerts, portal pages, data connections, etc. This granular... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb423674.htm]]> Amy Shanler Cognos Defines Business Intelligence Security for Enterprise-Wide Deployments business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced the results of a recent security evaluation on Cognos 8 Business Intelligence performed by Symantec Corporation. Cognos 8 BI helps enterprise customers worldwide continue to progress BI standardization and performance management initiatives with increased confidence in secure information delivery and access throughout the organization. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence has gone through an independent and detailed security evaluation conducted by Symantec. According to the report, the overall design of Cognos 8 BI employs a robust architecture for secure reporting and analysis. The security assessment also revealed that Cognos understands sound security practices and has surpassed industry best practices by designing a secure architecture and framework for reporting and analysis applications. The audit concluded that, at the time of the assessment, “none of the capabilities assessed contained high risk instances of common web application vulnerabilities.” “As security subject matter experts, the Symantec Consulting Services organization is focused on helping companies increase their knowledge of security and other IT risks that impact them today to enable them to effectively meet the requirements of their customers,” said Charles Johnson, vice president, global consulting, Symantec. “By leveraging Symantec application security experts to assess the Cognos 8 BI security architecture, Cognos has further demonstrated its commitment to ensuring its products continue to meet customer requirements for securing their most important assets.” Cognos 8 BI offers enterprise customers a comprehensive foundation to address BI security concerns, including the areas of authentication, access control, data-level security, application firewall, and encryption: • Authentication: Cognos 8 BI delivers pre-built integration with leading security providers and security APIs for custom security systems to enable simultaneous user authentication and logon to any number of namespaces, which is a key security criteria according to Symantec. Unlike other BI providers that still rely on their own security maintenance, Cognos 8 BI reduces the complexity, time, and costs of administering and maintaining multiple security systems by enabling customers to leverage “best of breed” security providers and in-place application security. • Access Control: Cognos 8 BI enables establishment of granular user access rights from within Cognos or a third-party security provider. This authorization is centralized to simplify administration of disperse user communities and does not burden IT administrators to manage multiple security schemes. As a result, IT can grant or deny permissions, perform BI activities, and track/audit usage for select users, groups, and roles. Customers can leverage this control to ensure government and industry compliance requirements and reduce IT costs for maintaining authorization to BI capabilities. • Data-level Access Rights: Cognos 8 BI enables security of all BI objects and information, from folders, subject areas, individual reports, analysis, metrics, scorecards and dashboards, events and alerts, portal pages, data connections, etc. This granular... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/8/prweb423674.htm]]> 00:15:00 no