(Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Ontario) A business intelligence software company that specialized in application development and 4GL tools. Founded in 1969 as a consulting firm, its PowerHouse 4GL was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange systems. Numerous products included the PowerPlay OLAP analysis tool, Impromptu report and query language and Axiant client/server development system. In 2008, Cognos was acquired by IBM, and the PowerHouse line was acquired by Unicom Global in 2013. See
PowerHouse and
Axiant.