Company: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Entry Submitted by: Lois Paul & Partners
Company Description: Cognos is the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions.provide world-class enterprise BI, planning and consolidation software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and partners for a complete performance solution.
Nomination Category: Products & Product Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Product Development Team

Nomination Title: Cognos Incorporated – Best Product Development Team

   1. Tell the story about what this nominated team achieved in the past year (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:

          In 2005, Cognos launched Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, the only business
          intelligence (BI) product to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities:
          reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management as
          well as data integration, on a single, proven architecture. As a follow up to
          this great success, a tight nit team of technical and entrepreneurial
          enthusiasts at Cognos undertook an initiative in 2006 to make the unmatched BI
          content found in Cognos 8 BI available to more users at every level across an
          organization. In order to accomplish this, the team looked at applications or
          devices that everyday workers are familiar with that would provide easy access
          to data.

          Realizing that Google or a similar search engine is where nearly everyone
          begins their search to find information, this group of innovators at Cognos
          completed the development of Cognos 8 Go! Search – an access mode for Cognos 8
          BI that enables everyday users to find reports, scorecards, and other content
          through a search engine format. To broaden these capabilities, the product
          development team forged first of its kind partnerships with Google and IBM. The
          team enabled the Cognos Go! Search Service to support IBM WebSphere Information
          Integrator OmniFind Edition, the IBM enterprise search platform. Through joint
          development efforts with Google, Cognos extended the capabilities of its Cognos
          Go! Search service by allowing reports, analyses, dashboards, key metrics, and
          alerts to be directly accessed through the new Google OneBox for Enterprise.
          The news of this partnership was a watershed event for the industry, resulting
          in record media coverage for Cognos – 200 pieces of coverage with 100,000,000
          impressions in IT, business and BI publications in a three-week timeframe from
          March - April 2006 in North America.

          Recognizing the increasingly mobile world we live in, the product group
          developed Cognos 8 Go! Mobile (announced in Fall 2006) – an access mode in
          Cognos 8 Business Intelligence that allows users to increase their productivity
          and improve their decision-making when working remotely by accessing
          operational and strategic information about customer orders, product
          performance, and more on their RIM BlackBerry. At RIM, Cognos has become the
          poster child for how to build an enterprise application on their Blackberry. As
          a result, product team leader, Don Campbell, has been asked to speak at their
          worldwide analyst, partner and customer events.

          Lastly, in a business environment where Microsoft Office products thrive, the
          Cognos development team created the Cognos 8 Go! Office access mode. Cognos 8
          Go! Office allows users to view and consume Cognos business intelligence
          content within Microsoft Office, eliminating users' need to cut and paste or
          manually load data into spreadsheets or presentations.

          The Cognos product development team has seen continued success because the
          management team encourages a culture of innovation and the technical team is up
          for the challenge. Constantly encouraging and rewarding innovation, management
          has posted a Cognos Patents Wall of Fame at world headquarters in Ottawa,
          displaying all the patents that Cognos has created. To put the success in
          perspective, in North America Cognos has more than double the patents of its
          nearest competitor.

   2. List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:

          Cognos 8 Go! Mobile
          http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/go-mobile.html

          Related articles:
          http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=50710021-3377-4EE8-A55E-266FF0322510

          http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=21185

          Cognos 8 Go! Search
          http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/go-search.html

          Related articles:
          http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=1PFXG24R3OH2SQSNDBGCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=186100341

          http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-04-19T123645Z_01_SPI616452_RTRUKOC_0_US-COGNOS.xml

          Cognos 8 Go! Office
          http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/ms-office.html

          Related articles:
          http://www.destinationcrm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=6853

          http://www.crn.com/software/199001331;jsessionid=S4SYNWT4ADSJ4QSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN

   3. Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader(s) of this nominated team:

          Don Campbell - VP, Platform Strategy and Technology – Cognos Corporation

          Don Campbell oversees technology adoption strategy and its application within
          the Cognos platform today and tomorrow. He leads the charge on leading-edge
          technologies such as grid computing, search, and wireless information delivery
          in a performance management context.

          Campbell has 25 years of high tech experience, 20 of which have been with
          Cognos. He has held various roles from research to software development to
          management, and has led the creation of several award-winning products.
          Campbell sits on various industry technology boards and advisory committees.

          Mr. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Carleton
          University, in Ottawa, Canada.