Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, has extended its mobile business intelligence solution, Cognos 8 Go! Mobile,

This will support Nokia Eseries devices and Nseries multimedia computers based on S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS.

Cognos will collaborate with Nokia to deliver the solution to customers worldwide, said an official spokesman.
 
Cognos 8 Go! Mobile is the industry’s first business intelligence solution designed to make it convenient to view, consume, and interact with highly relevant performance information on mobile devices.

Cognos 8 Go! Mobile securely delivers enterprise data through an intuitive interface optimised for each different type of mobile platform. It now brings timely decision-support information directly to Nokia Eseries devices and Nseries multimedia computers so decision makers who need to access BI content across the enterprise, either through a mobile device or on the Web, are able to use the same consistent, trusted source of operational information.

According to Gartner, “worldwide combined shipments of PDAs and smartphones totaled 57.4 million units in 1H07, a 36 per cent increase compared with the same period in 2006.”

They “forecast combined shipments of PDAs and smartphones for all of 2007 to reach about 129 million units, up 42 per cent compared with 2006.
 
Within this growing market, existing Cognos 8 BI customers such as Stockmann, a leading department and fashion store chain in Finland, will be able to use Nokia devices based on S60 3rd Edition to further leverage their BI investments and receive information and insight to make business decisions from any location at any time, with little additional investment.

Companies that already use Nokia handsets based on S60 for mobile workers will be able to deliver greater value to those employees by providing immediate interaction with key business information presented in BI reports.

“Our beta tests of Cognos 8 Go! Mobile with our Nokia Eseries devices showed us the power of the product’s rich-client mobile environment. We could easily drill through report content, get live data and work with it offline, all with the benefit of existing access control parameters which are preserved in the Cognos environment,” said leading IT architect, Stockmann, Ilkka Pirttimaa.

This version of Cognos 8 Go! Mobile is purpose-built to support Nokia devices based on S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS. It lets executives or front-line mobile workers securely access and interact with timely and personalised operational and strategic performance information automatically over the air.

Even while users are offline, the product has a rich mobile client that fully leverages the proven capabilities of S60 devices and the Cognos 8 platform, for decision-making anytime, anywhere.

These capabilities include common security and access to all BI reports, graphs and analysis within a single report authoring environment, without requiring modification or duplication of reports.

“With the introduction of the Cognos 8 Go! application, Cognos and Nokia are extending business mobility beyond email to yet another new area, business intelligence,” said director, partner programmes, Enterprise Solutions, Nokia, Mika Laitinen.

“Cognos customers who use Nokia devices based on S60 now have access to mission-critical performance information wherever and whenever they need it,” said regional general manager, Cognos Middle East, Derek Morrison.

“Together with Nokia, we are empowering employees to securely monitor the pulse of the business remotely and act on key business information in an informed and timely manner. The net result is improved performance for sustainable competitive advantage,” he added. – TradeArabia News Service