Cognos is offering Cognos 8 Planning 8.2, an upgrade of its business performance-management application, which is compatible with DB2 databases running on System i machines. Cognos Planning helps companies automate existing spreadsheet-based systems and establish best practices to model their organizations. Cognos 8 Planning 8.2 extends integration with the Cognos 8 Business Intelligence platform, which lets companies better integrate BI data and enables the two solutions to share an infrastructure through a single interface. Cognos 8 Planning 8.2 also provides enhanced integration with third-party certified data sources such as SAP.