Cognos Inc yesterday announced the formation of a new Desktop Software Division to handle the products it previewed at Cognition ’91 in the summer – the desktop executive information system for Windows 3 and Hewlett-Packard Co’s NewWave, now called PowerPlay – which will now support the Apple Macintosh too, and the SQL query tool for Windows, which is now called Impromptu (CI No 1,699). Dun & Bradstreet Software will incorporate PowerPlay in its upcoming client-server applications. Cognos has become an Alliance Partner for Lotus Development Corp Notes and future versions of PowerPlay will tie in with Notes. Digital Equipment Corp will distribute PowerPlay and Impromptu and Ross Systems Inc will bundle it with its financial applications software for DEC VAX minicomputers.
