What happened to Adaytum?
In January 2003 Adaytum was acquired by Cognos, a leading Business Intelligence vendor.
Since the acquisition Adaytum Planning, now known as Cognos Planning, it has been considerably developed and integrated into the Cognos range of products.
The main functional developments include much stronger integration between Analyst and Contributor, the ability to link Contributor models and Contributor automation.
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Adaytum Versions and the subsequent developments by Cognos
Adaytum Planning 2.4
Both analyst and Contributor were contained in this release
Adaytum Planning 3.0
This was the last release before the acqusition by Cognos
Cognos Planning 7.1
This was the initial rebranding by Cognos of Adaytum
Cognos Planning 7.2
This release introduced the possibility of using Cognos Access Manager software to log on to the Planning products
Cognos Planning 7.3
This release was the first release to require the use of Access Manager to log on to Cognos Planning. Significant product enhancements included the ability to link contributor models
Cognos Planning 8.1
Latest release incorporating Contributor Data Server - previously an additional component to work alongside v7.3 for ease of publishing
Cognos Planning 8.2 / 8.3
Further integration with Cognos 8 BI now requires web services for authentication. Submission rules within Contributor grids are introduceed, the ability to attach documents and the intergation with the data nodelling component Framework manager for better intregation with data sources
Cognos Plannning 8.4
This release sees the introduction of a new richer Contributor grid along with improvements to the platform services
