Customers worldwide are extending their performance management investment with Cognos 8 Planning 8.2.

Now in the deployment phase with customers, Cognos 8 Planning 8.2 extends integration with the Cognos 8 Business Intelligence platform. It enables the development of performance management solutions that fully leverage BI data and allows for shared infrastructure through a single interface. It also provides additional process accelerators across finance and line of business operation, according to a Cognos official.

Cognos 8 Planning 8.2 shares the identical platform services and data management layer that Cognos 8 BI uses for scorecarding, reporting and analysis.

This deep integration delivers a single, trusted, reliable data source that finance can easily access and IT managers can more easily manage and support.

'Cognos Planning is a critically important, strategic solution for us. With Cognos 8 Planning 8.2, we're able to build more complex applications outside the Office of Finance and across our business with a larger number of data sources,' said CIO, CNL Financial Group Joel Schwalbe.

Cognos 8 Planning 8.2 provides enhanced integration with third-party certified data sources such as SAP/BW. This seamless integration improves data access and management and reduces total cost of ownership for customers.

'As we continue to extend our financial performance management capabilities, Cognos' rich history of innovation offers customers reliable and robust solutions that add to the breadth of the entire Cognos 8 Performance Management platform,' said regional general manager, Cognos Middle East, Derek Morrison.Trade Arabia News Service