Cover-All Technologies Inc. announces details of a relationshipwith IBM as an OEM partner for their IBM Cognos businessintelligence technology.

As part of the agreement, Cover-All embeds certain IBM Cognossoftware capabilities into their NexGen Business Intelligence Suitewhile at the same time, offering these capabilities as part of asingle license and support relationship through Cover-All's NexGen BusinessIntelligence Suite.

“Early on, we recognized IBM's leadership position and vastcapabilities within the business intelligence tools marketplace,”says Manish Shah, president and CTO of Cover-All. “Merging theirtechnology and ours, complemented by our domain expertise withinproperty & casualty, we've developed not just a new product,but a new way of thinking about insurance business performancemanagement.”

Cover-All's NexGen Business Intelligence Suite includes acomplete technology set from the extraction of data from any coresystem, through a middle-tier designed specifically for globalinsurance applications. Rich data visualization is accomplishedthrough a set of predefined, highly configurable dashboards,scorecards, KPIs, and reports.

“Top performing organizations are 5.4 times more likely to usean analytic approach over intuition. With Cover-All's inclusion ofIBM's leading analytic capabilities they can now help clients gainactionable insights to drive their business,” says Craig Bedell,worldwide insurance industry executive for IBM Business AnalyticsSoftware.

“The power of our domain rich capabilities, matched with IBM'sindustry-leading data-analysis and visualization technology, makesfor a truly differentiated product suite,” continues Shah. “But therevolutionary aspect of this product lies within the inherentflexibility afforded to the business user. We've put anextraordinary amount of configurability in the users' hands,allowing them to build their own views based on information that'srelevant to them. Further, our product-oriented approach allows usto deliver these capabilities much faster than traditionally seenin these types of projects.”

The NexGen Business Intelligence Suite was released earlier thisyear, with multiple implementations already underway.