Under the terms of the deal Cognos will provide preferred analysis and reporting technology for Daptiv’s new project and portfolio management platform. Daptiv, which changed its name from eProject earlier this month, refers to the inclusion of Cognos’s capabilities as Work Intelligence to analyze and optimize team-based collaboration environments.
Cognos is hoping that Daptiv’s 7,000-strong base will give it a firmer foothold in the SaaS market, where it has started to take a keener interest recently following its acquisition of Celequest, which offers a SaaS operational BI appliance called Lava, not to mention several moves by rival Business Objects to beef up its own SaaS offerings.
At the beginning of this year Cognos also developed a new Cognos 8 BI data adapter for the Salesforce on-demand CRM platform that is now listed on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange online applications marketplace.
Daptiv has made available Work Intelligence to over 50,000 users and plans to double that in the future to over 700 companies. Cognos spins that intent as being the largest BI deployment in the SaaS market.
Daptiv provides a great showcase for Cognos as part of a dynamic SaaS offering, said Jennifer Francis, vice president of market development at Ottawa, Ontario-based Cognos.
Cognos joins a growing list of Daptiv’s SaaS partners that also include Concur Technologies, Infor, Solucient (Thomson), and Ultimate Software.
