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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.

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
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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 sections
Contents
  • 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cognos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.