Cognos
Sign in to saveCognos Incorporated was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) software. Founded in 1969, at its peak Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries until being acquired by IBM on January 31, 2008. While no longer an independent company, the Cognos name continues to be applied to IBM's line of business intelligence and performance management products.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Cognos
- Company.logo
- File:Cognos wordmark.svg
- Company.logo_caption
- Wordmark of company before IBM acquisition
- Company.type
- Brand (of IBM)
- Company.fate
- Acquired
- Company.foundation
- 1969
- Company.founder
- Alan RushforthPeter Glenister
- Company.location
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Company.key_people
- Rob Ashe, General Manager, IBM Business Analytics
- Company.industry
- Software
- Company.products
- Business intelligenceData visualizationAnalytics
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- Canada
- Headquarters
- Ottawa
- Owned by
- IBM
- Parent organization
- IBM
- Industry
- business intelligence
- Official website
- www-03.ibm.com/software/products/fr/cognos-analytics
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- inception
- 1969-01-01
- location of formation
- Ottawa
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2008-00-00
- product or material produced
- business intelligence
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Federal investigation
- Acquisition of Cognos by IBM
- BI market
- Products
- References
- External links
Cognos Incorporated was an Ottawa, Ontario-based company making business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) software. Founded in 1969, at its peak Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries until being acquired by IBM on January 31, 2008. While no longer an independent company, the Cognos name continues to be applied to IBM's line of business intelligence and performance management products.
==History== Cognos was founded in 1969 by Alan Rushforth and Peter Glenister. Michael U. Potter joined Cognos in 1972, and was its chief executive officer from 1975 until 1995. It began as a consulting company for the Canadian federal government and offered its first software product, QUIZ, in 1979. During the Canadian recession in the 1980s, Cognos shifted its focus from consulting to software sales.
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