BSG, Cognos partner for the Middle East, today announced that Great Circle Group has selected Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) for enterprise-wide reporting and performance management.
Great Circle will deploy Cognos 8 to enhance business reporting and analysis across the organization. Cognos 8 BI will aggregate disparate data from multiple sources to provide information access and visibility for business manager across all departments. Senior Management will be provided with summarized information via interactive dashboards.
“We are taking an iterative prototyping approach to the implementation to ensure we deliver a system that is of ongoing value to the business,” said Ajith Kumar, IT Manager at Great Circle. “We expect to increase the speed and efficiency of our reporting and provide powerful analytical capability to our business users,” Kumar added.
“Cognos 8 BI allows us to be the owners of the data and have ready access,” said Sairavi N., Financial Controller at Great Circle. “This solution reduces the need to run around to track down the information you need when you need it. We will now have the flexibility to deliver reports quickly, efficiently, and when we need them,” Sairavi added.
“Great Circle’s selection of Cognos 8 BI is demonstrative of our competitive edge in the business intelligence market,” said Raheel Khan, Regional Manager at BSG. “Our enterprise-wide solution is the only solution on a single Web services architecture that will help businesses gain better insights for their organization by putting the information into the hands of decision makers.”
About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions -- How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at www.cognos.com.
About BSG
BSG is the regional distributor and Authorized Training Partner of Cognos in the Middle East. Since its inception in 1995, BSG's primary focus has been the delivery of Business Intelligence solutions and services to customers in the region.
Backed by the requisite technical assets and extensive domain expertise, BSG have helped hundreds of customers gain strategic business advantage by deploying solutions encompassing query, reporting, OLAP, data mining, data integration/warehousing and corporate performance management/analytics.
The team behind BSG has extensive experience in providing Project Management, Training and Consultancy services in the areas of Business Intelligence to clients around the Middle-East. Currently, the team has over 150 consolidated person years experience of delivering enterprise-class information management and BI solutions.
BSG's large installed base of customers include some of the top Banks, Oil & Gas companies, Airlines, Telcos, Manufacturing & Retail companies, Large Corporates and Government & Ministries in the Middle East. For more information, visit the BSG Web site at www.bsgme.com.
About Great Circle Group
Great Circle Line was established in the United Arab Emirates in 1973 when they acquired a 3500 DWT general cargo vessel. While shipping remains at the heart of activities, the company has grown into a diversified industrial group with activities spanning from Liner agencies and ship owning to Paper and Chemicals manufacturing and real estate investments. Great Circle Line has representative offices in Qatar and Iran as well as close decade-long relationships with agents throughout the Arabian Gulf region and the Indian Sub. The group’s activities include Ship Agency, Tug & barge Operations, Freight Forwarding Services, Project Cargo moving, Warehousing and Logistics. For more information, visit the Great Circle Web site at www.circleholdings.com
