Cognos announced that Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) has been designated by IBM as "Ready for IBM WebSphere Portal," the highest level of validation for software applications built to run within the IBM WebSphere Portal environment.

Through this validation, global organizations can capitalize on out-of-the-box production-ready Cognos 8 BI portlets that conform to IBM WebSphere’s Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)-compliant framework. This offers business users complete access to all facets of their Cognos BI implementation — including reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards and business event management — via an integrated WebSphere Portal interface. Customers also benefit from stronger portal authentication and information security through the integration of Cognos 8 BI’s powerful security mechanism with IBM WebSphere’s native single-sign-on (SSO). Furthermore, portlet-to-portlet communication lets users easily navigate their Cognos 8 BI content and render reports in complete business context, delivering results to a dedicated view, and enabling the user to utilize their limited visual resources to their full potential.

Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides the complete range of BI capabilities in a single product, on a single Web services architecture. It is also the only solution to deliver a simplified, zero-footprint interface for all users, authors and administrators. Easy to integrate, deploy and use, Cognos 8 BI delivers a simplified BI environment that drives high user adoption, enables better decision-making, and serves as an enterprise-scale technology foundation for performance management, now and in the future.

Cognos also recently achieved IBM’s "Ready for Grid" validation, certifying Cognos’ interoperability with IBM’s standards-based, flexible and scalable suite of software and hardware products for Grid Computing.

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