Cognos gets SaaSy with Salesforce.com

Cognos has joined salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the first on-demand directory and sharing service for business applications. With Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) now listed on AppExchange, Salesforce Winter ‘07 customers will be able to learn how the zero-footprint, enterprise-class reporting and analysis capabilities can enable them to gain greater insight and understanding into sales and marketing initiatives.

This announcement supports Cognos’ vision of pervasive BI, making BI accessible to more people and enabling higher adoption of business intelligence for enhanced decision making and improved organizational performance. Cognos’ BI solution delivers easy-to-use BI with the right context, through familiar interfaces, at the right time. Now a new class of users, salesforce.com customers, can leverage a complete and proven BI solution to extend the value of information across the organization and gain answers to new business questions in the context of other corporate information.

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