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Cognos Acquires Celequest

Published: January 17, 2007

Cognos has acquired privately held Celequest.

Cognos a provider in business intelligence and performance management solutions, recently announced it has acquired privately held Celequest, a provider of operational business intelligence solutions.

“This is a great complementary acquisition for Cognos. Celequest’s innovation in self service dashboard creation and real-time information monitoring extends our vision for operational BI and enhances our market-leading performance management solution,” said Rob Rose, Chief Strategy Officer at Cognos. “This gives us the opportunity to reach a new class of users who need to continuously monitor performance against key metrics and make decisions based on real-time, operational information. Celequest's operational dashboards are immediately interoperable with Cognos 8 BI, delivering a more complete view of enterprise information for better overall performance management.”