IBM unveils Cognos strategy

IBM unveiled an expanded business strategy and roadmap bolstered by the company's aquisition of Cognos-to help clients unlock the business value of information and use it for competitive advantage to address emerging, industry- specific business opportunities.

Thursday's announcement features and array of new and enhanced joint IBM-Cognos solutions, products and services from across the company that enable organisations of all sizes to gain better insights from their data, improve decision-making, and optimize business performance, including: 10 new and enhanced IBM solutions for bankng, retail, healthcare, government, life sciences and manufacturing industries.

Six pre-integrated IBM-Cognos product offerings that enable companies to use business intelligence to improve overall business performance. Information on demand infrastructure services to help clients plan, design and deploy a resilient enterprise data, storage and content management environment, a IBM release said.

The new offerings extend IBM's end-to-end portfolio of information on demand software, hardware and services.