Cognos Acquires Celequest

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Today, Cognos announced the acquisition of Celequest (www.Celequest.com), a private, California-based, industry leader in operational dashboards. With this acquisition, Cognos will enhance its performance management solution with Celequestââ,¬â,,¢s innovation in real-time information monitoring and self-service dashboard creation. Cognos now delivers the industryââ,¬â,,¢s most complete dashboarding solution (from strategic management dashboards, to self-service, real-time dashboards), offering customers a comprehensive view of information for better decision-making and improved performance management.

WHAT IS CELEQUESTââ,¬â,,¢S CORE PRODUCT OFFERING?
Celequestââ,¬â,,¢s core product offering is its industry-leading, real-time operational dashboard solution. With rich visualization and self-service, the solution enables operational managers to continuously monitor performance against the goals of the enterprise, analyze exceptions, and take corrective action for immediate impact.

It is a 64-bit Java solution designed to support large-scale operational BI deployments with an architecture that consistently delivers information in a few seconds, regardless of query volume or number of users. To achieve this, it uses a patent-pending streaming data flow engine to cache data and analytical information in memory and stream it to large numbers of users, ensuring uniform query response times as more users are added.
Key features and benefits of the solution are:
1.   Real time information monitoring ââ,¬â€œ provides continuous visibility across multiple sources
2.   Self-service dashboard assembly and customization ââ,¬â€œ delivers personalized information quickly to users while offloading IT
3.   Rich visualization and interactivity ââ,¬â€œ eases understanding and quick analysis of the information
4.   Watchpoints, Alerts and Tasks ââ,¬â€œ enable workflow/collaboration and speeds delivery of actionable information
5.   Highly scalable, open architecture ââ,¬â€œ handles high data volumes of operational environment and eases integration with broader performance management solution