There’s a story I’d like to tell, especially funny in context with recent merger. I’ve found all this stuff (see links) about a year ago and I imagined the undocumented parts, it’s not official. In deep 90s a great guy named George Kunzle lead the development of IBM internal budgeting system, called FREGI. It was [...]
Cognos press-release IBM press-release I don’t know what to add for now.
Pro: IBM needs a CPM solution. Developing it “in-house” is too long. But “Blue Giant” won’t suffer without it much. It’s faster to buy complete solutions. Alphablox was bought only for couple of projects. Contra: IBM tends to be Linux-oriented. Cognos 8 BI is Linux-friendly. Enterprise Planning and Controller are MS-tied to bones Pro: Cognos [...]
I hear this for about a year now. IBM to buy Cognos. IBM do it, please. 100mln R&D budget is not enough for Cognos to redevelop planning significantly. And market is demanding. IBM, you’ve got so much money, what would it change? 300k IBM employees + 5k Cognos ones — a 1,|6|% change.
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