Infor Wins Cognos Platinum Award for Excellence in Performance Management
Infor Datastream 7i Selected as Best OEM Hosted Solution
ATLANTA – July 17, 2006— Infor, one of the largest global providers of enterprise software, has been recognized by Cognos for Infor Datastream 7i, the industry’s leading web-architected asset performance management solution, which was awarded Best OEM Hosted Solution at the recent Cognos Forum 2006. Infor won the prestigious Platinum award for Datastream 7i’s outstanding integration capabilities and its sales performance with broad customer adoption.
“Our partnership with Cognos allows us to provide customers with even greater flexibility to create complex reports, which enable them to identify opportunities for increasing efficiency and cutting costs.” said Jerry Rulli, vice president and general manager. “This award underscores Infor’s ongoing commitment to providing our customers with solutions designed to improve processes and overall corporate performance.”
Infor integrated Cognos ReportNet™ into its Datastream 7i to provide customers with unprecedented capabilities for analyzing and reporting cross-enterprise asset performance, in addition to sophisticated modeling and forecasting capabilities. The result is a powerful web-based reporting solution which offers customers valuable insight into their operations.
“Cognos’ broad, global ecosystem of successful partnerships helps our customers drive performance management through a blend of technology, product, and services offerings that best suits their needs,” said Neal Hill, senior vice president, Global Development, Cognos. “Building on our recent innovations such as Cognos 8 BI, performance applications, and industry blueprints, our partners have achieved new successes and demonstrated even greater depth of industry expertise. We are proud to honor Infor for its contributions to helping our customers gain greater visibility and insight into their organizations and drive performance management to the next level.”
Infor Datastream 7i continues to receive industry recognition. Earlier this year analyst firm Gartner, Inc. positioned Datastream 7i in the Leaders Quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM).
About Infor
Infor delivers fully integrated best-in-class enterprise solutions for specific industries, as well as best-in-class standalone products that address the essential challenges its customers face in areas such as supply chain planning and execution, customer and supplier relationship management, asset management, product lifecycle management, and business intelligence. With more than 3,100 employees in 50 global offices, Infor provides enterprise solutions to more than 24,700 customers in over 100 countries. For additional information, visit www.infor.com.