Cognos

What is Cognos (IBM)?
Cognos is business intelligence and performance management software distributed by IBM. The software suite was designed to enable non-technical personnel in large companies to extract company data, analyze it, and then generate reports that would help the company make informed decisions. The suite consists of more than a dozen separate products based on open standards that allow them to communicate with various third-party technologies, from multidimensional and relational databases to enterprise software such as SAP and Oracle.