from DSSResources.comMcDonald's Canada standardizes on Cognos ReportNet(TM) for enterprise-wide reportingBURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 25, 2005 -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced that McDonald's Canada has signed an agreement to deploy Cognos ReportNet(TM) for its enterprise-wide reporting needs. McDonald's Canada chose Cognos ReportNet because it allows the organization to standardize all of its reporting requirements on a single solution, dramatically reducing total cost of ownership. With its mission-critical performance, scalability, and multilingual support, Cognos ReportNet will be deployed to McDonald's Canada's corporate and franchise restaurants, community of owner operators and head office personnel. It will provide performance information on profit and loss, cash flow, sales, operations, and human resources. Cognos ReportNet creates a true self-service reporting environment against a number of information systems, including IBM DB2. "With Cognos ReportNet, we expect to be able to create complex business reports and identify management action in a matter of minutes, putting critical information in the hands of our restaurant owners and management -- driving competitive advantage," said Gene Genin, vice president of IT at McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited. "Cognos ReportNet gives us a true self-service reporting environment to leverage the rich information housed in our IBM solutions." Built upon a service-oriented architecture, Cognos ReportNet scales to hundreds of thousands of users and draws upon Cognos' reporting and query leadership. It is an integral part of the Cognos Enterprise BI (EBI) Series, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event management, and data integration. "Working with an organization as respected and as high-caliber as McDonald's Canada is a privilege. This is a proven, successful company that recognizes that business intelligence is a strategic imperative in achieving their corporate performance management goals," said Karen Williams, vice president of product marketing, Cognos. "Cognos solutions stand up to the rigorous demands of managing the corporate performance of large enterprises, offering the industry's most complete, powerful, and scalable solution." ABOUT MCDONALD'S CANADA: McDonald's is the leading foodservice company in the world. McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited and its Canadian franchisees own and operate more than 1,350 restaurants and employ more than 77,000 Canadians coast to coast. Approximately 65 per cent of McDonald's Canadian restaurants are locally owned and operated by independent entrepreneurs. For more information about McDonald's Canada, visit the company's Web site at http://www.mcdonalds.ca. ABOUT COGNOS: Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software and services 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 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence 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. Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. SOURCE Cognos Web Site: http://www.cognos.com http://www.mcdonalds.ca Antonietta Iafrate Cognos, 781-313-2454 antonietta.iafrate@cognos.com |