Addedo in Partnership with the World's Leading PM Software Supplier
2007-09-21 : Zurich, Switzerland
Addedo has entered into an agreement with Cognos to become a consulting and reseller partner. Addedo thereby strengthens its offering to Group Finance functions at larger enterprises. After identifying a need for software solutions in the PM (performance management) space, Addedo conducted a review of partnership opportunities and selected Cognos. The company’s market proven and world leading solutions were a deciding factor, along with the Cognos track record many of Addedo’s consultants have.
Our goal is to provide our clients with leading performance management solutions that enable them to be successful. Cognos performance management software does just that – it will help our clients leverage opportunities for improved business performance. As they execute better decision-making, our clients will achieve a new level of efficiency and effectiveness,’ says Johan Berggårdh, Business Development Director Addedo.
“We perceive Cognos as the greatest technology enabler for financial and operational performance. Many of our customers here in Switzerland are already on Cognos and we look forward to continue helping them as well as convincing new customers with the value of Cognos”, says Michael Kempter, MD Addedo Switzerland, and continues.
“The lion share of our Cognos customers are on Cognos Controller. As one of the few, this software delivers the power of linking the financial consolidation and corporate reporting application with world-class business intelligence. We have already seen a renewed interest around what we can offer thru Cognos to complement our customers’ existing consolidation solution with”, mr Kempter continues.
Cognos performance management solutions provide a single line of sight across all time horizons. Planning and consolidation combine the forward management view of the business (planning, budgeting and forecasting) with the current and historical view of the business (consolidations, reporting, and financial analytics.) This integrated operational and financial view lets customers proactively address business challenges for greater operational effectiveness.
“The UK market, being Europe’s largest IT service market and with a great deal of Cognos customer, also has a great deal to win from this agreement”, asserts Arnold Warhonowicz, Consultant Manager Addedo UK. Mr Warhonowicz continues. “It is great, since the day the agreement was official I have seen much more interest around our offering.”
Eric Leitner, Cognos Vice President of Central & Eastern Europe says “Addedo’s strengths in implementation and consulting, combined with Cognos’ strengths in innovative Software for PM (Performance Management) and the vision to deliver the information as close as possible to the point of decision making, customers will get access to a complete and exceptionally strong solution to address their business needs. We look forward to working with Addedo”
Michael Kempter, MD Addedo CH,
info@addedo.ch
+41 41 7106505 (office)
+41 792 491510 (mobile)
Arnold Warhonowicz, Consultant Manager Addedo UK,
arnold.warhonowicz@addedo.com
+44 7809 899458 (mobile)
Johan Berggårdh, Director Business Development Addedo International,
johan.berggardh@addedo.com
+46 40 450546 (office)
+46 70 3217732 (mobile)
About Addedo:
Addedo is an independent consultancy. Our consultants work for the CFOs and Group Finance function. We identify and implement improvements in partnership with our clients. Through information technology and process changes we help transform these improvements into better corporate performance. We serve a large client base ranging from emerging businesses to the largest Fortune 3500. Common for many of our clients is that they want to improve and support their reporting and consolidation process.
Addedo has offices in Sweden and Switzerland and the UK. This is where the bulk of our customers are located, even though many of our consultants are engaged in projects throughout Europe.
We strive to be the pan European consultancy partner to Group Finance.
About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) 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
Our cooperation with Addedo works extremeley well. The people are very responsive and knowledgable. And our implementation of Cognos Controller was completed on budget and on time.
-Sybille Streiff, Controlling, Oetiker Group