Cognos and GBM Announce Regional Partnership in Central America and
the Caribbean to Deliver Integrated Performance Management Solutions
GBM is the region's largest IBM integrator and solution provider
PANAMA and BURLINGTON, Mass. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) August 2, 2007 --
Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN) (TSX: CSN), the world leader in business
intelligence and performance
management solutions, and General Business Machines Corporation
(GBM) today announced a regional partnership that will help customers
integrate business processes across the enterprise and gain greater
insight into company performance.
GBM is IBM’s exclusive distributor and
integrator in the region, and represents other leading technology brands
as well including Cisco Systems, Diebold, ZyXEL, Lexmark and Tripp Lite.
As Cognos’ premier solutions provider in
Central America, GBM will market and sell Cognos Performance Management
solutions to its installed customer base, which represents top companies
and conglomerates in the region.
“GBM will provide our customers with unmatched
direct local presence, strong customer service focus and in-depth market
knowledge,” said Javier Ramirez, regional
director at Cognos for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. “This
strategic partnership reinforces our position as the leader in
Performance Management and Business Intelligence in Central America,
while leveraging the success of the Cognos-IBM partnerships worldwide.”
“With this initiative, both companies will
bring greater coverage and drive Performance Management and Business
Intelligence success to customers in the region with solutions and
services provided by the undisputed market leaders,”
said Ramon Aguilar, director of marketing at GBM Corporation. “Together
with Cognos’ Business Intelligence,
Scorecarding and Planning solutions, GBM will offer integrated solutions
with IBM’s infrastructure.”
GBM operates throughout Central America and the Caribbean and has
offices in Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, El
Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business
intelligence and corporate
performance management, delivers software and services that help
companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance.
Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage - Corporate
Performance Management (CPM) - achieved through the strategic
application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution
helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance
through scorecarding; and understand performance through business
intelligence.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos
enterprise business intelligence and performance management solutions
and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners
and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
About GBM:
GBM is a solution integrator with strong experience in information
Technologies. It provides all the components for a technology
infrastructure with hardware, software and specialized services. GBM’s
objective is to become a strategic partner of its clients with the
purpose of advising and implementing solutions that allow the creation
and evolution of automated processes, and as a result reach higher
levels of competitiveness.
GBM is a regional company with Central American capital headquartered in
Costa Rica and with presence in 7 countries. In addition to offices in
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the
Dominican Republic, it serves the Haitian and Belize markets. Offices in
Miami, FL serve as a distribution point for its products.
GBM is IBM’s exclusive distributor in the
region. Additionally, GBM represents such leading brands as Cisco
Systems, Diebold, ZyXEL, Lexmark and more recently Tripp Lite. GBM has
alliances with SAP, i-flex, Byte and Klein. For more information, visit http://www.gbm.net/
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