Ottawa 50% gutted.
There were only about 450 at Riverside, now 196 fewer remaining.
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I worked 9 years in Ottawa and 5 years on Cognos Analytics. IBM buys profitable software, then tries to rebrand it and leaves 70% of the functionality of the classic product out. No wonder incumbent customers won't "upgrade" to the new product. I saw IBM do the exact same thing to Security software. Then they dissolved the Security division. IBM is eating itself from the inside out.
So Cognos Ottawa/Riverside is now a total staff of 8 people.
@a7 because Cognos analytics management and designers were stupid a--holes
In 2008 Cognos analytics had around 2000 employees in Ottawa and about 1.5 billion in revenue, Today, although it still makes around 400 million, it has less than 20 employees in Ottawa (and ~100 in India, most of them with less than 6 months in the company ), I hope the remaining Cognos customers understand the risk of having a mission critical product supported by almost nobody, no engineering expertise remaining, and no investment. Mission accomplished Sripriya Srinivasan!
Why @a4
When I worked at IBM I always hated the Ottawa office.