

On the Web: www.cognos.com
Overview:
Avartis has entered into a strategic
alliance with Cognos, and its world-leading corporate performance
management technology, to help leading organization improve
and direct corporate performance management initiatives
by enabling all of the key steps in the management cycle-from
planning and budgeting, to measuring and monitoring performance,
to reporting and analysis.
Avartis and Cognos have been partners
since January 2003. The relationship goes back even further,
since prior to this, Avartis were the preferred partner
of Adaytum, a leading provider of enterprise performance
planning solutions. Cognos acquired Adaytum in 2003 to complement
it's other BI products and provide the critical piece of
it's performance management offering.
Today, Avartis has grown to be the
leading partner of Cognos in Asia Pacific for enterprise
planning and corporate performance management implementations.
The combination of industry leading technology implemented
by Avartis professionals who are typically Certified Public
Accountant (CPA) qualified, have a practical blend of industry-specific
knowledge and modern finance techniques and possess essential
language skills to conduct business in Asia's highest growth
markets provides assurance to our clients that their CPM
initiatives will be successful and deliver real value to
their organizations.
"Many of the world's
largest company's have made Cognos their CPM partner of
choice. This is because only Cognos builds the relationships
and delivers the products, services and consulting expertise
required to help our customers harness their potential and
transform it into breakthrough performance. We share this
vision with our strategic partner, Avartis. Cognos and Avartis
believe that the real power of CPM solutions is providing
a decision-making platform that leverages the strengths
and knowledge of employees at all levels within an organization
and invites these individuals to make decisions that drive
aggregage value creation for the overall firm."