Cognos’s business intelligence and performance management software proves a hit with the Major League Baseball Players Association, which chooses IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer to help analyze data such as players’ statistics. The union will implement the solution, with assistance from Cognos partner Decision Systems, to provide baseball agents with the reports and analysis needed to support their clients. MLBPA, which is the collective bargaining body for all active Major League Baseball players, represents all 1,200 players of the 30 major league teams.