Cognos(R) ReportNet(TM) Delivers Enterprise Reporting for SAP BW-- Breakthrough reporting solution delivers native SAP BW support; drives broad deployment of SAP BW to extended enterprise -- BURLINGTON, Mass., Sept. 12, 2003 -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced Cognos ReportNet delivers rapid and effective global-scale enterprise reporting from SAP(R) Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW). Allowing customers to fully leverage their SAP and non- SAP solutions, Cognos ReportNet ensures that business users receive a consistent view of corporate performance information via the web or SAP Enterprise Portal. Cognos ReportNet is being showcased at SAP TechEd '03, Sept. 9-12 in Las Vegas. With SAP(R) Certified Integration for its Cognos Driver for BAPI, Ver. 1.0 and several SAP-certified iViews, Cognos ReportNet delivers global-scale, enterprise reporting fully leveraging SAP BW business rules, metadata, security, and access to real-time data in SAP R/3(R)via RemoteCubes. Cognos ReportNet provides true self-service enterprise reporting with streamlined, drag-and-drop report authoring and pure Web, global-scale deployment to 100s of 1,000s of users. "One of the driving goals in the development of Cognos ReportNet was to offer superior, industry-leading reporting from SAP BW. Cognos ReportNet allows customers to leverage their entire SAP BW investment, rapidly increasing return on investment and delivering better, more consistent visibility into corporate performance," said Peter Griffiths, senior vice president, products, Cognos. "Designed to natively access SAP BW as well as a broad range of other data sources, Cognos ReportNet allows extended enterprises to standardize on a single solution for enterprise reporting, creating a single version of the truth." "Cognos ReportNet offers excellent support for SAP BW through SAP- certified BAPI integration, sound MDX language capabilities, and exploitation of the customer's existing data in SAP BW and business rules. The result is a solution that provides an enterprise-wide approach for reporting on the rich information housed in both data warehouses of SAP and non-SAP solutions," said Colin White, president and founder of Intelligent Business Strategies. Cognos ReportNet solution draws upon Cognos reporting and query leadership, delivering a revolution in reporting. Cognos ReportNet is fully integrated within Cognos Enterprise BI solution, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event management, and data integration. Cognos is an SAP Software Partner. Today, more than 100 global Cognos consultants and partners are trained on mySAP(TM) Business Intelligence (mySAP(TM) BI) integration to help ensure customers get the highest degree of support and success. Cognos ReportNet delivers: * Increased ROI - leverages investments in SAP BW with complete access to all InfoProviders, reuse of security and server infrastructure, increased reporting functionality and ease of use for a broad-based global community of users; * Simplified IT efforts, faster time to result - easy integration with SAP Enterprise Portal, via certified iViews, self-service reporting for business users, reduced need to build and maintain MultiProviders, a low overall cost of ownership. ABOUT COGNOS Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management, delivers software that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance. Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage - Corporate Performance Management (CPM) - achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence. Cognos serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence and performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com. SAP, mySAP, R/3 and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
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