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BURLINGTON, Mass., -- Cognos,, the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance management, announced today Toshiba America Business Solutions Division has deployed Cognos Series 7 across its Web-based business information portal for internal decision makers and 600 Toshiba dealers across North America. Selected from a host of other BI vendors including Business Objects, Cognos Series 7 was chosen based on scalability, superior zero- footprint Web performance, and fastest time to deploy. With 15,000 users across North America, the Web-based Toshiba FYI portal will provide targeted Cognos Series 7 reports and analysis to internal stakeholders, supplying information on product sales and dealer performance. Internal stakeholders can determine overall division performance by territory and channel. Toshiba dealers can access information through the portal that is consolidated by the Cognos data integration solution, Cognos DecisionStream, to gain insight into their channel performance. Designed to allow sophisticated analysis of information housed in an Oracle 11i eBusiness Suite running on the Sun Solaris operating system, Cognos Series 7 was able to demonstrate the most effective breadth and depth solution at the earliest stages of the project, providing fully integrated data integration, analysis, visualization and reporting. Cognos Series 7 also was selected for the ease and speed of developing and deploying Cognos DecisionStream, which supplies the mission-critical portal environment with consolidated performance information from massive amounts of data across distributed sources. "Toshiba was looking for a comprehensive, integrated business intelligence solution that can scale to meet the needs of both our growing internal and dealer user communities. Cognos Series 7 provides internal stakeholders with tailor-made information about our divisional performance, allowing us to closely track our corporate performance," said Denise Fishel, director, eBusiness Planning and Development, eBusiness Technology Group, Toshiba America Business Solutions. "Cognos demonstrated incredible momentum, from early proof of concept to execution, deploying in record time. Today we are able to provide our extended enterprise with the information they need to make better decisions." "Toshiba America Business Solutions is yet another customer to select Cognos based upon the performance of Cognos Series 7 in a highly collaborative environment. Ease of installation, speed of deployment, integration between the product components, zero-footprint, and scalability are critical differentiators for Cognos," said Dave Laverty, senior vice-president, global marketing Cognos.