Software AG has entered into a strategic partnership and OEM licensing agreement with Cognos, a business intelligence and performance management solutions provider.
Under the terms of the agreement, Software AG will embed Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (Cognos 8 BI) as the reporting and analysis standard for future editions of its webMethods product suite.
weMethods is Software AG’s portfolio of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance, business process management (BPM), business integration and legacy modernization tools.
Software AG believes that the availability of industry-leading business reporting, scorecarding and analytics as a standard feature across all components of the webMethods product suite will deliver significant customer value.
As an out-of-the-box component of the product suite, enterprises can now combine their business intelligence initiatives with their BPM and business activity monitoring efforts to more quickly realize process optimization and business improvements. It will also enable closer and more productive collaboration between stakeholders, including developers, IT management, business analysts, process owners, corporate executives and end-users.
“The marriage of BI and BPM is designed to deliver more actionable insight. By combining real-time and historical data on a single dashboard, users can more readily respond to business changes and more quickly optimize process performance,” said Dr. Peter Kürpick, President and Chief Product Officer for the webMethods business division of Software AG.
“This is important as many talk about delivering an integrated product suite and a seamless user experience, but few actually deliver. The inclusion of best-in-class BI and reporting is one key element. Others include a shared metadata model and lifecycle governance for all assets, real-time monitoring and process-based collaboration. By bringing all of these pieces together within webMethods, we are equipping our customers to more effectively manage their real-time businesses.”
“This integrated offering will deliver business intelligence in the context of a process task, ensuring that insight is readily available when it’s of most value to knowledge workers and business managers,” said Matt Green, Product Line Director for Process Applications, Software AG.
“By bringing business intelligence together with business rules and BPM, we’re empowering users to make changes and enhancements right at the point of interaction instead of weeks or months later.” |
