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Appfluent Technology, Inc has extended its strategic partnership agreement with Cognos.
Under the agreement, Cognos will utilize Appfluent software to help its enterprise customers deploy, manage and scale Business Intelligence (BI) and data warehouse (DW) applications. Additionally, Cognos will include Appfluent's award-winning Product Suite as part of Cognos' Guardian Services.
Appfluent's software leverages the Cognos 8 BI platform to empower enterprise IT organizations with actionable insights to optimize query performance, rationalize database and storage infrastructure and mitigate unauthorized data access. This optimization helps customers speed database response times by providing a better understanding of how users are accessing data and pinpointing which data is the most relevant across the database.
"As a long time customer of both Appfluent and Cognos, we are excited to see the expanded partnership between the two companies. We are eager to realize the benefits of continued product integration and joint solutions that this strategic partnership will certainly deliver. Today, we manage more than 3,000 Cognos users, and utilize the Appfluent Product suite as an operational standard and best practice. With Appfluent we have realized an estimated annual savings of more than $400,000, and an Appfluent ROI of just five months," said Steve Ring, Senior BI/ Data Warehouse Manager, HR Information Delivery Services, Pfizer, Inc.
Appfluent delivers usage and workload analytics via the Cognos 8 BI platform to support a variety of critical BI and data warehousing initiatives, including enterprise BI standardizations and migrations, query performance optimization, data consolidation and migration, and continuous non-disruptive management of the environment.
"Today's announcement is an important milestone in our partnership with Cognos. Cognos customers will now be able to access Appfluent software directly from Cognos as a part of Cognos Guardian Services. As a result, Cognos customers will now have more insight and guidance to improve their application and database performance, efficiently manage their resources, and effectively scale their environment," said Frank Gelbart, President and CEO, Appfluent Technology.
"We are pleased to be partnering with Appfluent to deliver analytical applications for enterprise IT via the Cognos 8 BI platform. The workload and usage-analysis delivered by Appfluent and Cognos 8 BI provides unprecedented insight for large organizations to more efficiently manage BI and data warehousing applications and infrastructure," said Mel Zeledon, Senior Vice President, Global Alliances, Cognos, Inc. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) delivers easy-to-use BI with the right context, through familiar interfaces, at the right time.
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