Cognos ReportNet -- integration-certified by SAP -- is designed to deliver global-scale enterprise reporting with the SAP NetWeaver open integration and application platform.

Cognos ReportNet was one of the first enterprise applications to achieve "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" certification. Aiming to enhance its commitment to SAP solutions and its partnership with SAP, Cognos says that it has upgraded its SAP integration certification to deploy the Cognos Dispatcher Service 1.1 component of Cognos ReportNet on the latest version of the SAP Web Application Server Release 6.40.

Last year, Cognos upgraded its SAP certification of Cognos ReportNet iViews to include integration to SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0. Cognos says that it also has existing SAP certified integration, including "Certified for SAP NetWeaver" for OLAP BAPI.

Cognos ReportNet is powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform, the open integration and application platform is designed to provide an efficient way to integrate all systems running SAP or non-SAP software.

According to Cognos, SAP NetWeaver unifies integration technologies into a single platform, and is pre-integrated with business applications, aiming to enable change and reducing the need for custom integration.

The platform is said to be based on industry standards, and to support all major technologies, such as Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Microsoft .NET, and IBM WebSphere, Cognos concludes.