A Conversation With Cognos (AMR)

We recently sat down with Cognos’s CEO Rob Ashe, COO Les Rechan, and other company executives to discuss their views on the company’s market position, its go-to-market plans for the remainder of FY07, and its longer term outlook on the business.

Business Objects Acquires ALG (Line56)

Picking up activity-based costing and profit optimization specialist for $56 million; the enterprise performance management proposition

Business Objects Adds Some ABC to Its EPM Suite (AMR)

Business Objects is serious about performance management, acquiring privately held Armstrong Laing Limited—a.k.a. ALG Software—an activity-based costing (ABC) and profitability management vendor with a marquee list of customers. Here’s a look at the deal and what’s happening in the ABC market.

Oco Out To Map the Business Genome (AMR)

Since the late 1980s, Mr. O’Conor has been consumed with getting clean data out of existing systems without having to replace everything with a single monolithic application suite. In 1999, he started Oco to solve this problem. He spent five years developing his software. Today, he is one of the first providers of “On Demand Data Integration” and “On Demand Analytics.”