Two new products from Cognos

Cognos life sciences solutions senior director Bill Stevens today announced the launch of two new products, the Cognos Clinical Trial Forecasting Blueprint and the Cognos Sample Optimization Blueprint, produced to help pharmaceutical companies improve clinical trials management and improve sample product distribution. Through press material, Stevens said a bit acidly that the products were built as a responsed to “CRM and ERP systems [not offering] the right level of granularity to enable informed decision-making.”

The Cognos Clinical Trial Forecasting Blueprint is being touted as assisting pharmaceutical companies to “better anticipate clinical trial resource requirements and accompanying expenses in order to comply with FDA filing requirements.” The Blueprint offers multi-dimensional modeling and the Cognos 8 BI integrated workflow. The Cognos Sample Optimization Blueprint, meanwhile is promised to enable “pharmaceutical executives to develop and implement sample allocation plans that are in line with corporate revenue objectives.”