COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, has announced plans to significantly enhance its Middle East operations.
The company has said that recent regional growth, combined with identified sales potential across the Middle East, has meant that Cognos must now turn its focus more heavily to supporting its growing number of channel partners.
“Cognos has registered exponential growth and, to support our operations, we are expanding our dedicated local presence in target markets,” said Derek Morrison, Cognos regional general manager. “This move includes bringing on high-level, senior personnel to support our ambitious growth targets.”
Cognos Middle East has appointed Loui Okasha as Business Development Manager with effect from 1 June.
Loui Okasha comes to Cognos from rival firm Hyperion, bringing more than 10 years of sales experience, gained in account management, sales management, and business development roles.
“With Loui’s track record and business experience, we are confident that he will be able to grow our business in the region as it enters a new phase of development,” added Morrison.
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 http://www.cognos.com/ae/index.html
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