Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator for Cognos 8 released

CINCINNATI, OH - March 31, 2007 - Balanced Insight today announced the release of the Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator for the Cognos 8 BI platform. The Balanced Insight Consensus® platform has made significant inroads with enterprises who are looking to rapidly deliver trusted business intelligence blueprints and designs that bring about a common language between their IT and business users. The launch of the Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator for Cognos 8 will continue to assist organizations with rapidly assembling enterprise-specific language that will help bring semblance, understanding, and agreement upon data and business definitions.

“We continue to evolve the Balanced Insight Consensus® product line with a set of integrators to enable the simulation and generation of BI Solutions on popular BI Platforms,” notes Tom Hammergren, president and CEO of Balanced Insight. “With this release of our Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator, users can now generate Cognos 8 business intelligence solutions at the press of a button."

With this release of Balanced Insight Consensus®, the labor-intensive process of defining, architecting, and developing Cognos 8 solutions becomes highly automated, making the resulting information more trusted, more usable, and more valued. Balanced Insight Consensus® becomes the assistant to the business intelligence developer by taking the requirements captured by the business intelligence analyst and automatically generating a working Cognos 8 business intelligence solution. The Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator generates the expected relational database structures, a semantic layer for deployment in either the BI layer or the database layer for relational query & reporting, and the Cognos 8 OLAP model.

This additional functionality adds to that already found within the Balanced Insight Consensus® Integrator module. Currently support exists for industry standard relational database DDL (data definition language) enabling interfacing to IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Sybase Adaptive Server, Teradata, as well as others; Common Warehouse Model (CWM) and XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) format to support various modeling, business intelligence, ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tools supporting this industry standard.

About Balanced Insight
Balanced Insight, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, helps companies double the return on their business intelligence (BI) and performance management investments. Its signature Balanced Insight Consensus® software is a company-wide platform that brings business focus to the BI development process and automates the arduous task of giving all data a consistent business meaning — what Gartner calls semantic reconciliation. This process leads to more trusted and widely-adopted BI investments with lower ongoing support costs.
For more information visit www.balancedinsight.com