Cognos was initially the name of the organization that made the Business Intelligence suite that is currently named after it. The organization was established in 1969 by Alan Rushforth and Peter Glenister, and was initially called Quasar Systems Limited, which was then a counseling organization working for the Canadian government. It moved its concentration to programming deals in 1980 and renamed itself to Cognos in 1982, taken from the Latin word "cognosco," which signifies "learning from individual experience," a fairly well-suited name for the kind of industry the organization was in. The organization was later obtained by IBM on January 31, 2008, losing its free presence however holding its heritage in the product suite it created, which likewise bears a similar name.

Cognos is a Web-based, coordinated business insight suite that gives an incredible toolset to mining, breaking down, scorecarding and observing of occasions, information and measurements. It enables a business to end up best performing and investigation driven, enabling it to really anticipate or discover showcase patterns and after that respond to them with educated choices.

The product suite contains the accompanying fundamental segments:

• Inquiry Studio - takes into account straightforward inquiries and self-administration
reports that answer all fundamental business questions
• Cognos Connection - the Cognos Web Portal, the beginning stage for all capacities gave
in the suite
• Report Studio - used to make the executives reports including maps, graphs, records
and rehash capacities
• Occasion Studio - a notice instrument which investigates undertaking occasions
progressively
• Examination Studio - utilized for breaking down and understanding data about a
business occasion or activity, distinguishes patterns and enables clients to comprehend
peculiarities and deviations, additionally contains OLAP functionalities, among others

Cognos is a business insight and execution the board programming suite sold by IBM. The product suite was intended to empower non-specialized work force in substantial undertakings to remove corporate information, break down them and after that produce reports that would enable the business to settle on educated choices. The suite is made out of in excess of twelve separate items, which were based on open principles to enable them to speak with different outsider advancements, from multidimensional and social databases to big business grade programming, for example, SAP and Oracle.