CIBER Partners With Cognos to Deliver Specialized Business Intelligence Solutions; New System Enhances Leading Hotel's Critical Business Reports.Business Editors GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2000 CIBER CIBER Center for International Business Education and Research (various locations) CIBER Center for International Business and Research (Michigan State University) CIBER Cellular Inter-Carrier Billing Exchange Record , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CBR (1) (Computer-Based Reference) Reference materials accessible by computer in order to help people do their jobs quicker. For example, this database on disk! (2) (Constant Bit Rate) A uniform transmission rate. ) today announced a partnership to advance its strategy and enterprise integration expertise with the business intelligence technology of Cognos(R) (Nasdaq:COGN; TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :CSN CSN Crosby, Stills, and Nash (band) CSN Centrala studiestödsnämnden (Swedish: state education grant and loan program) CSN Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (French) ) to provide specialized business intelligence solutions that enable faster, more coordinated decision-making for businesses and stronger, more profitable relationships with customers, employees and suppliers. CIBER and Cognos are partnering to deliver e-business intelligence solutions on a handful of joint projects in the hospitality and telecom industries. As a member of the Cognos Partners Program for Enterprise Integrators, CIBER recently teamed up with Neovation, a majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of CIBER, to deliver Cognos' leading technology at a leading hotel chain. The CIBER/Neovation team is integrating Cognos' advanced Business Intelligence platform for the hotel chain. The new system allows the hotels to generate critical business reports in minutes instead of days. In addition, the team created online analytic processing (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ) cubes that replaced previous flash reports allowing the hotel's executives to now receive daily performance scorecards. The scorecards reveal key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. allowing executives to make faster and more informed decisions. "CIBER's 27-year history as a leading next-generation business intelligence integrator, along with Cognos' product breadth, depth and market penetration, enable our customers to quickly deliver and successfully access and analyze data to make strategic business decisions for their companies," said Dr. Khalid Mansour, CIBER's Business Intelligence National Practice Leader. "CIBER has the depth of knowledge of what businesses need and how to achieve their goals both strategically and tactically," said Dave Marmer, Cognos Director of Strategic Business Initiatives. "CIBER's proven reputation of delivering advanced solutions meets the growing demands of our customers and makes them an ideal partner. We are proud to include CIBER among the other leading enterprise integrators in our program." About Cognos Cognos (Nasdaq:COGN; TSE:CSN) is the world's largest and most successful business intelligence company. Founded in 1969, Cognos does business with 15,000 customers in more than 100 countries around the world. Cognos business intelligence solutions and services are also available from more than 2,900 worldwide partners and resellers. Cognos' web site is www.cognos.com. About CIBER CIBER, Inc. (NYSE:CBR) is the trusted technology leader transforming businesses to be agile, scalable and connected. Backed by 27 years of information technology consulting Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. , CIBER provides thought leadership in Internet solutions to Global 2000 and rapidly scaling companies and governments through its National Practices -- Strategy and Enterprise Integration, Wireless, Internet Services, Business Intelligence, Network Integration and Outsourcing. Based in Greenwood Village, Colo., the company's consultants serve client businesses from 35 CIBER offices, 15 DigiTerra offices and four Neovation offices in the U.S., Canada and Europe. CIBER's web site is www.ciber.com. 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