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CLEAR BLUE SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH COGNOS CORPORATION
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey - December 1, 2004 - Today Clear Blue Business Technology Solutions, LLC announces that it has chosen to partner with Cognos (NASDAQ:COGN; TSE:CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI).
By providing the insight needed to swiftly make strategic business decisions, Cognos' approach to information analysis and delivery helps customers build highly successful businesses and strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners. The combined Clear Blue and Cognos offering will provide customers with unmatched capability in crafting solutions to drive company performance.
"Clear Blue is focused on providing their customers IT solutions that increase their ability to perform at a higher level", says Bill Stevens, Director of Life Sciences with Cognos. "This focus matches well with the Cognos' Performance Management product offerings. This partnership will provide a great deal of value for our customers."
Ian Letichevsky, Cognos Partner Development Manager, notes: "Clear Blue is an exceptional Cognos partner with a firm understanding of what makes businesses successful. More importantly they bring the ability to execute on these best practices helping to make successful solutions."
Clear Blue has helped many companies achieve a higher level of business performance. By crafting and implementing solutions tailored specifically to their business needs, these solutions help business develop, implement and monitor their strategic plans. Clear Blue has helped clients choose a path that furnishes immediate rewards, leverages existing investments, establishes short and long-term goals, and encourages high levels of participation throughout the organization. Clear Blue provides ClearProject, our own unique methodology that employs best practices to ensure the success of your integrated CPM initiatives.
"Cognos software provides an excellent platform upon which Clear Blue delivers leading performance management solutions" adds Joe Rodriguez, President of Clear Blue Solutions. "Their software is unequaled in the industry, and their delivery team provides outstanding dedication and attention to our customers. We are excited about our relationship with Cognos and look forward to serving our clients together."
About Clear Blue
Clear Blue is a regional, business technology solutions provider. We deliver added value through our concentration in specific business segments and our unique, focused discipline in corporate performance management. Alliances with leading technology companies that provide complementary capabilities enable us to be your single source for end-to-end business intelligence and performance management needs.
The Clear Blue team possesses unsurpassed experience and success in designing and delivering critical business-specific solutions to companies of all sizes. We follow a strategic, consultative and relationship based approach to assess your specific needs. Helping to mitigate risk and cost overruns and adhering to industry best practices, we employ an effective methodology executed through our own toolset. For more information about Clear Blue, visit our web site at http://www.goclearblue.com.
About Cognos
Cognos, a world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance.
Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage - Corporate Performance Management (CPM) - achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence.
Cognos serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.
