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Infocube releases a reporting solution for Corporate and Social
Responsibility - "Sustainability Reporting"

Corporate Social Responsibility and associated reporting is an area of business governance that has been around for some years now and has been adopted by many organisations. Sustainability Reporting takes this further and defines Economic, Environmental and Social criteria against which an organisation can report to give stakeholders a clearer picture of how it is performing in these increasingly important areas of activity. The de facto standard defining the KPIs to be reported against is published by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and is called the G3 Guidelines. Infocube can offer a Cognos Reporting (database agnostic) Solution to deliver these reporting requirements through a rapid to deliver framework and set of industry specific data models.

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Cognos Positioned as a Leader in Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms Report

Independent Research Firm Cites Cognos as a Market Leader with the Most Modern and Scalable BI Platform

BURLINGTON, MA, August 14, 2008– Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company, and a world leader in business intelligence and performance management, today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. has recognized Cognos as a market leader in BI reporting and analysis platforms, according to the July 2008 report The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008. Forrester cited Cognos as a leader based on the company's strategy, market presence, and current offering of Cognos 8 BI v8.3.

The comprehensive report noted Cognos 8 BI v8.3 as a leader, citing Cognos as having the most modern and scalable BI environment. Cognos was recognized with five #1 (or tied for #1) sub-categories measured by Forrester (Operational, Product Direction, Global Presence, Partnership Ecosystem, and Install Base) and overall received the highest score for market presence. In addition, Cognos scored second in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories, and had the top score for the "Operational" sub-category, which includes Administration, Professional Services, Scalability, Security, Usability, and Support/Reliability.

"We are proud to be recognized as a Business Intelligence leader by Forrester, based both on our current offerings and on our strategy and market presence," said Dave Laverty, vice-president, Worldwide Marketing, Business Intelligence and Performance Management, Cognos. "Under IBM, Cognos remains the only truly ERP-independent performance management solution — we can support all of the applications, databases, and infrastructures customers have now and in the future."

The full ForresterWave for Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008 report can be viewed at http://www.cognos.com/news/analyst_reviews.html.

The IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence platform provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise groundbreaking capabilities to better manage performance by delivering a consistent, accurate view of all business information. As a complete, flexible product, Cognos 8 BI v8.3 easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources. Its simplified BI environment improves user adoption, enables better decision-making, and provides a robust foundation for departmental BI and enterprise BI.

Infocube selected as preferred partner

Infocube are selected as preferred partner by IBM to offer their 'Balanced Warehouse' – a ready-to-go solution that simplifies designing, implementing and maintaining your Data Warehouse environment.

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Munich Re UK Life Branch builds intelligent business with enterprise search

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search helps world’s largest re-insurer improve decision making through pervasive BI
LONDON, England, March 12, 2008

Cognos, an IBM Company, has announced that Munich Re UK Life Branch has selected IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search to escalate the number of decision makers who access reports on business critical information.

Currently, 160 combinations of BI reports are used by Munich Re UK Life Branch and this number is growing. The 'Google-style' search interface will help executives to quickly isolate the key reports that allow them to compare the risk across different departments and areas, as well as spot key trends, by entering simple keywords. IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search will instantly bring up all related information and metrics using familiar search engine terms.

Previously, Munich Re used an in-house built tool for enterprise search, which was time consuming to manage and difficult to use. “Risk is the focus of our business so it is critical we have full visibility of the spread of risk we are exposed to by area, by customer and geographically,” said Tony Dumycz, BI Manager of Munich Re UK Life Branch. “This means navigating an enormous volume of information, across different departments and different teams.” “IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search’s easy-to-use interface will help us achieve this visibility by driving BI usage, both in terms of numbers and in the breadth of reports our current users’ access,” said Tony Dumycz, BI Manager of Munich Re UK Life Branch.

“Many decision makers who are familiar with BI reports relating to their own specific areas aren’t aware of the knowledge available in other reports, which could actually be relevant to their job. By using a simple keyword search, executives will find and benefit from reports that they didn’t even know existed.” “We have been growing the number of frequent BI users every year, and we’re confident that IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search will continue this trend.” Munich Re is also hoping to prevent duplication of effort by making existing reports easier to find.

“Business executives use consumer search tools many times a day, so it makes sense that enterprise search should be just as simple,” said Graham Walter, VP UK, Middle East and South Africa Cognos.

“IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search will drive the demand for BI reports, at all levels of Munich Re’s organisation. Increased access to business critical information and metrics leads to better informed decision and, ultimately, results in better performance management.”

IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search will go live at Munich Re later this month, as part of the larger migration to IBM Cognos 8 version 3.

About Cognos, an IBM Company
Cognos, an IBM company, is the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions.

It provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos was acquired by IBM in January 2008.

For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ and http://www.cognos.com/uk/

IBM unveils Cognos strategy, targets information on demand business growth

IBM has unveiled an expanded business strategy and roadmap—bolstered by the company’s acquisition of Cognos—to help clients unlock the business value of information and use it for competitive advantage to address emerging, industry-specific business opportunities. With the addition of Cognos, more than 35,000 employees across IBM’s global software, hardware, services and research organizations are united in support of the company’s global Information on Demand business strategy.

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