Cognos Partner Profile - SunGard Higher Education

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    MALVERN , PA. 19355
    UNITED STATES

Company Overview
    SunGard Higher Education provides software, systems implementation and integration, strategic consulting, and technology management services to colleges and universities. We help more than 1,600 institutions worldwide strengthen institutional performance by improving constituent services, increasing accountability, and enhancing the education experience. SunGard Higher Education has a vision to unify people, process, and technology in an environment that addresses the needs of higher education institutions and the people they serve. We call this vision the Unified Digital Campus.

Relationship with Cognos
    SunGard Higher Education markets and sell the Cognos 8 suite of business intelligence tools to complement and enhance our Banner Performance and Analytics solutions for colleges and unversities. The Cognos 8 business intelligence tools add exciting value to the strong foundation of our operational datastore and enterprise datawarehouse products with a wide variety of reports and analytics. The SunGard Higher Education/Cognos partnership meets all levels of technical and business user expectations for ad-hoc reporting and more.

Area of Expertise
    According to Gartner’s 2007 Magic Quadrant, SGHE is the leading Higher Education administrative suite provider. SGHE Banner is a mature and full-featured higher education administrative suite. Although particularly strong in the North American market, SGHE has strategically positioned Banner in the global market. Today, most SGHE Banner customers have moved to version 7, which introduced an open API, enabling improved integration and interoperability.