About Cognos Cognos is a web-based suite of tools from IBM that offers a full range of business intelligence capabilities including reports, analysis, dashboards, scorecards, mobile BI and more.

“Cognos 8 BI includes a range of tools that run such functions as reporting, queries and analysis,” says David Brierley, regional manager, Cognos Middle East, Turkey and Greece. “It can be used to ...

Cognos 10 will bring together IBM's Cognos business intelligence platform with Lotus Connections, as well as adding mobile device access, IBM announced on Monday.Adding mobile access to IBM's ...

IBM announced plans to purchase Cognos for US$5bn (£2.5bn) in November last year; the sale was finalised in January.

Cognos also added support for six more languages in Version 1.1, enabling users to interact with the software in a total of 10 languages. Reports, once created, can be output in at least 25 languages.

The decision by Cognos to acquire Applix for $339 million today signals the big business intelligence (BI) vendor’s desire to move into in the mid-market space and to adopt Applix’s analytics ...

Users can run Cognos against data they keep in the IBM cloud, or against data they store on premises. A full commercial version of the online IBM SPSS Modeler will be available within 30 days.