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Cognos Enters the World Of Operational BI and Performance Management

Earlier today, Cognos announced that they had acquired operational BI and performance management vendor Celequest in a non-disclosed deal. This is the first of the large independent BI vendors to step into the world of Business Activity Monitoring and Operational Performance Management. All I can say is that it is about time! This acquisition may well trigger similar acquisitions or announcements by other large BI vendors competing with Cognos to allow them to push into this fast growing market. The acquisition shows that Operational BI is beginning to become a mainstream issue pushing BI to the center of the enterprise plugged into core business operations and processes. This is signalling the shift from business intelligence to intelligent business

Posted by Mike Ferguson on Wednesday, 17 January 2007 |

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