Filing reveals that Cognos went to IBM first
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Cognos executives first approached IBM in the months leading up to&#160;IBM&#39;s pending $5 billion deal to buy the company, not the other way around, according to a document Cognos submitted Friday to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Cognos is acquiring analytics software provider Applix for approximately $339 million. Cognos CEO Rob Ashe said that within the context of the company&#39;s overall strategy for serving large and midsize enterprises, the move will further extend the company&#39;s capabilities to offer innovative financial performance management offerings.
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Cognos Inc. is preparing to unplug its  business analysis software from the desktop PC and make it  mobile, with plans for its first launch on BlackBerry devices  in early 2007.
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Last November, we wondered what IBM expects to come out of its acquisition of Canadian business intelligence software provider Cognos. This morning we found out, as Big Blue enters the "business optimization" business.
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Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus reported the first profit since its birth in 1999 thanks to cost cuts, rising metals prices and strong demand, notably from China.
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Cognos Inc., a maker of business-management software, on Tuesday said its earnings added 42 percent in the third quarter, beating Wall Street expectations as software sales surged during the period.
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com September 29, 2004, 1:04 PM PT. IBM claimed first place Wednesday in a supercomputer speed competition with an expanded version of its Blue Gene/L that beat out a Japanese machine from NEC.
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(InfoWorld) - Business performance software vendor CognosÂ has agreed to buy Applix, a developer of performance analysis software, and plans to integrate the companies' products by early next year. With TM1, Applix's 64-bit in-memory analytical engine, Cognos said it hopes to boost its software's ability to analyze and optimize complex financial performance data. Cognos and Applix expect to complete the $339 million cash transaction in the fourth quarter, subject to regulatory approvals. It will only take a modest effort to integrate Cognos 8 with TM1, Cognos CEO Rob Ashe said on Wednesday in a conference call with analysts. He expects to have an integrated version on sale in the first quarter of next year. Cognos has around 3,500 customers for its financial performance management software -- and almost 20,000 more for its other products, while Applix has around 3,000 customers. Between 25 percent and 30 percent of those are joint customers, Ashe said. Many of them are already asking Cognos to support the TM1 engine, he said. One of the attractions of the Applix acquisition was the company's focus, Ashe said. "We like everything Applix does: they live and breathe performance management," Both companies compete withÂ Hyperion, now owned by Oracle, with Business Objects, and in some areas with SAP, whichÂ acquired performance analytics vendor OutlookSoftÂ in May. In 2006, Cognos was the second largest vendor of corporate performance management software, ahead of Oracle and behind Hyperion, according to market estimates published last month by analysts at Gartner. Those rankings have changed with recent acquisitions, with Business Objects now claiming third place thanks to its purchase of Cartesis and ALG Software, while Oracle-Hyperion moves to the top.
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The WS-Management spec is part of the effort to improve Sun-Microsoft system interoperability. But IBM is taking a different road.
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IBM's personal computer business racked up $965 million in losses between Jan. 1, 2001, and June 30, 2004, the company said last week in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, detailing the planned sale of the business to China's Lenovo Group.
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TechWeb - The Cognos-IBM Risk Adjusted Profitability Blueprint provides a performance-management framework for building multi-dimensional, product-level profitability plans and forecasts aligned with risk-management strategies.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced at the start of the annual SC supercomputing show Saturday that it will now offer commercial configurations of its Blue Gene supercomputer, just days after its prototype configuration, which has been built for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, took the high-performance computing crown with a speed of over 70 teraflops a second.
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InfoWorld - IBM's $5 billion acquisition of business intelligence software vendor Cognos took a step forward on Thursday as European regulators gave their approval to the deal.
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A federal magistrate has ordered IBM Corp. to reimburse software maker Compuware Corp. for costs relating to evidence that IBM produced only three months before Compuware&#39;s lawsuit was scheduled to go to trial.
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When one vendor acquires another, does a long-term partnership beforehand help out with systems integration? In the case of IBM's buyout of Cognos, the answer is a big "yes," IBM officials said today.
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Opinion Analyst firm takes issue with IBM claims
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NEW YORK - IBM Corp. said Friday that it has settled part of an employee lawsuit claiming that the world&#39;s biggest seller of computers and related services violated age-discrimination rules when it changed pension plans.