iGATE partners with Cognos

BANGALORE: iGATE Global Solutions Limited, an integrated technology and operations firm has announced a strategic partnership with Cognos, a provider of business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management. Responding to a growing customer base and the mission-critical application of BI, Cognos has augmented its services offerings by joining with iGATE Global, a player in the space of business intelligence, analytics and process optimization.

The Cognos-certified iGATE teams can take customers from project planning to architecture design to successful deployment and rapid ROI. iGATE brings its considerable domain expertise and analytics-based business optimization skills to improve process efficiencies, drive down costs, and increase revenues and profitability for its clients.

"Partnering with iGATE, Cognos continues to deliver on our commitment to providing the highest possible level of services and support to our customers. iGATE is focused on delivering dramatically low total cost of ownership for Cognos customers through service excellence and advanced analytical techniques" said Dave Achtemichuk, vice president, Worldwide Customer Services, Cognos, Inc.

With the recent announcement of Cognos ReportNet, iGATE along with the entire Cognos services team will be focused on providing high-quality consultant services to the large number of global Cognos ReportNet customers.

Designed to scale to 100s of 1,000s of users, Cognos ReportNet solution draws upon Cognos reporting and query leadership, delivering a revolution in reporting. Cognos ReportNet is fully integrated within the Cognos Enterprise BI solution, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry- leading OLAP analysis, event detection and alerting, and data integration.

Amit Sethi, Head of Alliances and Business Development, iGATE Global Solutions said, "our broad-based consultant services delivers significant enterprise value for Cognos. IGATE shares Cognos' vision of driving aggressive ROI for enterprise customers through process optimization. At iGATE, we believe that embedding business intelligence and analytics in the processes allows us to deliver a higher value, and we are very pleased to work with the global leader in business intelligence -- one of the fastest growing sectors in the market."

Through this partnership, Cognos adds more than 3800 service professionals to the award-winning Cognos services team.