Cognos Partner Profile - Focus Strategies & Solutions Pty Ltd

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    Level 6, 621 Pacific Hwy
    St Leonards, NSW , . 2065
    AUSTRALIA
    Contact: Tom Reich
    Title: Director
    Email: treich@focuss.com.au
    Telephone: +612 9437 3000
    Fax: +612 9437 3399

Company Overview

    Focus Strategies and Solutions is an organisation dedicated to delivering successful Performance Management solutions to our customers. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, Focus is the recognised IBM-Cognos Australian Partner of the Year 2008. At Focus, we understand the need for a collaborative approach. We’ll work with you to identify the best way to achieve your business and financial objectives. Your success means we maintain our excellent reputation in the marketplace, with our customers, employees and partners. We deliver Business ROI through improved Performance Management processes with the market leading IBM-Cognos platform. At Focus we know it’s not what we say about ourselves, but what our customers and partners say about us that matters, and this is what Cognos have to say: “”In being awarded Cognos Partner of the Year for 2008, Focus has again demonstrated their deep understanding of the Performance Management market here in Australia. Their ability to apply that understanding and to provide business solutions to our mutual clients which delivers significant value to our client’s businesses, both operationally and strategically, drives their growth and is the basis of their win. We are very excited about this coming year, and with working with Focus in jointly furnishing industry leading BI and Performance Management solutions to our new and our existing clients.” John Speed, Sales Director Cognos

Relationship with Cognos

    Focus is a Cognos Accredited Consulting Partner & Platinum Reseller, as well as an IBM Partner. Focus has been awarded the overall Australian Cognos/IBM Partner of the Year for 2008 and also the NSW/ACT State Partner of the year for the last two years 2007 & 2008. We are solely dedicated to implementing Datawarehousing and Cognos based BI, Planning, and Scorecarding solutions. Focus uses its expertise and practical "proven practices" approach to deliver solutions cost efficiently and on time. Additionally, we provide roadmap & information strategy services, product upgrades & migrations, and education, knowledge transfer and support services, all as part of an end-to-end service offering.

Area of Expertise

    Generally we are a an Information Mangement company focussing on Datawarehousing and BI / Performance managmenet solutions. Expertise from a Cognos product standpoint: Cognos 8, Cognos Planning, ReportNet, PowerPlay, Metrics Manager, DecisionStream / Data Manager, etc. More broadly, Focus works with many databases and ETL tools to develop your DW (e.g. Datastage, Informatica, Wherescape, Microsoft, Oracle, DB2, etc.) Focus is also an IBM solution partner and an SPSS partner. From a solutions standpoint: Reporting & Analysis, Budgeting/Forecasting/Planning, DataWarehousing / Information Management Data Mining Customer Analtyics Data Quality Pre-built Analytic solutions for Oracle Financials.

Additional Offices

    7/9 Bowen Dr
    Barton ACT , 2600
    AUSTRALIA
    Contact: Espie Balila
    Title: Service Delivery Manager
    Email: act@focuss.com.au
    Telephone: 02 6277 1110
    Fax: 02 6277 1112

    Level 3, IBM Tower 60 City Road
    Southbank, VIC ,
    AUSTRALIA
    Contact: Neil Macleod
    Title: Branch Manager
    Email: vic@focuss.com.au
    Telephone: 03 9626 2550
    Fax: 03 9626 2455