Cognos is an Ottawa, Ontario based company which makes business intelligence (BI) and performance planning Software. Founded in 1969, Cognos employs over 3,300 people and serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos was originally known as Quasar but changed its name in 1982. It has since acquired NoticeCast Software, Adaytum, and Frango.

Cognos Metrics Manager won the [http://www.cognos.com/news/releases/2004/0908.html Intelligent Enterprise Award] for the Best Business Performance Monitoring Solution 2004. Metrics Manager, which is a next-generation scorecarding technology, is aimed at corporate performance management. It is tightly integrated with its own Business Intelligence series of products which consist of tools like ReportNet, PowerPlay and others, and also with the Enterprise Planning Solutions.

With its latest product Cognos 8 BI, launched in September 2005, Cognos unites its former products ReportNet, PowerPlay, Metrics Manager, Noticecast, and Decision Stream.

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