NCR to Deploy Cognos Business Intelligence Solution

Cognos announced it has signed an enterprise agreement with NCR to deploy Cognos' Enterprise Reporting for e-business solution to thousands of NCR employees. Financial details of the agreement, signed in August 1999, were not disclosed. NCR is hoping to benefit from faster, more informed decisions by its employees, improving business performance and shareholder value. The new agreement expands the companies' strategic relationship, which includes NCR's reselling of Cognos software as the front end to its Teradata data warehouse solution and Customer Relationship Management product offerings.

NCR will use the Web-based Cognos solution company-wide to deliver coordinated and consistent information to employees, where and when they need it, through an NCR intranet, connecting them to a single information source in a true enterprise reporting environment. NCR will initially use Cognos for three applications: balanced scorecard; asset management; and a business analysis and management system. NCR will eventually extend the Cognos solution to other enterprise applications.

"We selected Cognos because they make every effort to know their customer's business," said Scott Klimo, NCR manager of enterprise data warehouse end user tools. "Cognos understands how we work and our business objectives, and is committed to making its customers successful by offering great products and customer support. The Cognos solution provides a centralized source for global reporting, and its interface is so easy to use and administer that little training is required for enterprise deployment."

The first three Web-based Cognos applications scheduled for deployment at NCR are:

• Balanced Scorecard- NCR has deployed Cognos enterprise-wide for a visual scorecard application. This application allows employees to track and measure NCR's financial results, customer transactions and communication, internal processes and NCR innovations through an online, interactive electronic scorecard. The Cognos scorecard will replace NCR's existing application, and provide multidimensional analysis and reporting, including the ability to drill down beneath the aggregate information to details below the summary figures.
• Asset Management- NCR's finance group will use Cognos Enterprise Reporting to manage, track and monitor worldwide inventory and accounts receivable. Users can drill down to view individual product inventory by quantity and location, sales orders, production, and scheduled shipments. Finance users will analyze worldwide accounts receivable using Cognos as the front-end to provide a multidimensional view of data residing in the Teradata warehouse.
• Business Analysis and Management System (BAMS)- NCR will utilize Cognos Enterprise Reporting as the foundation for BAMS, to enhance employees' information analysis and reporting capabilities. BAMS receives data from NCR's Teradata data warehouse, which is fed by the company's worldwide operational transaction systems. The Cognos solution will provide a multidimensional view of key financial and non-financial measures consolidated into one system.

For more information about Cognos, visit http://www.cognos.com.

For more information about NCR, visit http://www.ncr.com.