Intermountain Healthcare Selects Cognos As Business Intelligence Standard

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise groundbreaking capabilities to better manage performance by delivering a consistent, accurate view of all business information. As a complete, flexible product, Cognos 8 BI easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources. Its simplified BI environment improves user adoption, enables better decision-making, and provides a robust foundation for departmental BI and enterprise BI and performance management.

“Performance management is a business imperative, particularly for mission-critical healthcare organizations,” said Bill Stevens, associate vice-president of life sciences at Cognos. “Through this partnership, Intermountain Healthcare will benefit from a clinical intelligence platform that transforms the vast amounts of disparate health and patient data into information assets, enabling key stakeholders to effectively collaborate and make critical, informed decisions."

Cognos' industry-leading performance management solutions have helped numerous healthcare organizations worldwide cut costs, increase operational efficiencies, and comply with government regulations. Cognos can be found in such leading healthcare organizations as Nebraska Medical Center, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachussetts, and Trillium Health Centre (Canada). For more healthcare customer success stories, please visit /company/success/ss_healthcare.html

About Intermountain Healthcare:
Intermountain Healthcare is a nonprofit health system based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with over 27,000 employees. Serving the healthcare needs of Utah and southeastern Idaho residents, Intermountain’s system of 21 hospitals, clinics, health plans and physicians provides excellent medical care at affordable rates. It has been ranked as the number one integrated healthcare system in the country for five of the past eight years (number two the other three years). A central part of Intermountain’s mission is to provide quality medical care to its patients and members at the lowest appropriate cost. For more information visit http://www.intermountainhealthcare.org.

About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in Business Intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.