Under the terms of the agreement, a special version of ReportNet – branded as Cognos ReportNet IBM Special Edition – will ship with an embedded version of IBM’s WebSphere as its application server and IBM DB2 as its data store.
According to Richard Wozniak, program director of BI marketing at IBM, the deal will allow Cognos to deliver ReportNet as a turnkey solution to customers.
When you install ReportNet you always require a database underneath as a repository, which we’re now offering with DB2, Wozniak said.
Since ReportNet is a J2EE-style application is can also be deployed as a WebSphere-certified component, he added.
Our pre-staging of DB2 and WebSphere with ReportNet will improve time-to-value for BI, which is a key deliverable we’re both working on.
Wozniak says the OEM bundle builds on an already excellent working relationship between IBM and Cognos. Cognos has been an early adopter of BI innovations that we’ve been building into DB2 Data Warehouse Edition…like Cube Views.
Both firms also recently unveiled a jointly-developed packaged business intelligence solution, dubbed Crime Information Warehouse, that is aimed at law enforcement agencies.
Cognos and IBM also plan to roll out a similar packaged solution for retailers later this year.
Cognos ReportNet IBM Special Edition will be resold and co-marketed by IBM and Cognos. A jointly run seminar series on The Changing Economics of BI is planned to kick off next week.
