Cognos Corporation and Acorn Systems have integrated Cognos's corporate performance-management (CPM) suite with Acorn's Profit Analyzer application. Integration of the two systems results in a CPM solution for the iSeries and other platforms that helps users gather more accurate data to drive CPM initiatives, reduce data-collection and model-updating times, recalculate costs dynamically, and provide visibility into cost, revenue, and capacity numbers based on any business dimension. The combined solution places special emphasis on financial services, distribution, consumer packaged goods, and retail market sectors.