NewSys Enters Strategic Services Partnership with Cognos(R)
January 11, 2000
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--NewSys Solutions Inc. ("NewSys" or the "Company")
(CDNX: NSS) today announced that it has entered into a new
strategic partnership with Cognos(R) (NASDAQ:COGN; TSE:CSN), the
leading strategic vendor of enterprise business intelligence.
Under the agreement, NewSys becomes a member of TeamCognos, the
highest level of partnership available within the Cognos Service
Partners Program. The "TeamCognos" partner agreement, covering
both Canada and the United States, represents an important
achievement for the Company's Business Intelligence ("BI")
practice.
As part of the Company's strategy to become one of the top
business intelligence ("BI") practitioners in North America,
NewSys joins an elite group of Cognos Premier Partners. NewSys is
a regular participant in the early stages of Cognos' product
development and testing, marketing initiatives and conference
sessions, and assists with the rollout of new Cognos products.
NewSys also continues to provide services to Cognos'
product-development, marketing and quality-assurance divisions.
"Cognos is pleased to welcome NewSys to its TeamCognos program,
helping our combined customers realize the value of e-business and
maximize profit throughout their organizations," said Ben Plummer,
Cognos vice president of North American technology services. "In
competitive, fast-paced markets, we are able to leverage our
technology and business expertise to help organizations rapidly
achieve high value results. Through our partnership with NewSys,
customers can take advantage of demonstrated business experience
and technical expertise to rapidly and cost-effectively improve
the quality of e-business reporting and analysis."
Cognos is the leading vendor of enterprise business intelligence
solutions. Business Intelligence software makes corporate data
easily accessible to everyone in an organization, so they can
better coordinate decision-making across the entire enterprise,
and improve the performance of the business. Cognos products are
available directly from Cognos and through an extensive network of
channel partners. The Company also develops, markets and supports
software tools for application development.
Founded in 1969, Cognos is a publicly traded company with offices
around the world. US operations for the company are headquartered
in Burlington, Massachusetts. For more information, visit the
Cognos Web site at cognos.com
NewSys is an established IT-services company that delivers
forward-looking solutions in business intelligence, systems
integration and application management -and complements those
solutions with a variety of proprietary and customized software
products. Employing over 160 IT professionals, NewSys' clients
include Fortune 500 corporations and government departments
located in both Canada and the United States. The Company has
recorded 25 consecutive quarters of growth and profitability and
was acknowledged by Profit Magazine, for the third consecutive
year, as one of the fastest growing companies in Canada. For more
information on NewSys' software and services, please contact the
Company's web site at newsys.com or telephone at (877)
761-9436.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
For public relations,
Attention: Sahira (Sara) Piracha
Director of Corporate Marketing
(877) 761-9436
sara.piracha@newsys.com
or
For investor relations,
Linear Capital Corp.
Attention: Tony Croll
(416) 364-2266
tony@linearcapital.com
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