Coldra Woods, Newport, Wales, August 30, 2000—Cognos^® (Nasdaq:COGN; TSE:CSN), the world's largest and most successful business intelligence company, today announced from the J.D. Edwards Business Partner Conference in the United Kingdom, the creation of its second Center of Excellence, Enabled Worlds UK. Enabled Worlds UK, located in Alton, England, is a joint venture between Cognos and Triangle, a systems integration and solution business, that is focused on helping J.D. Edwards OneWorld^TM and WorldSoftware^TM customers rapidly derive business value from their enterprise data. Enabled Worlds UK ensures effective and efficient deployment in customer sites through a broad range of service offerings provided by a network of partners, thus creating a distribution channel for Cognos' business intelligence applications.

Enabled Worlds UK allows J.D. Edwards United Kingdom customers to gain unprecedented insight into the performance of their business and the behavior of their customers via Cognos e-Applications for J.D. Edwards. Cognos e-Applications for J.D. Edwards, a series of analytic applications that address key functional areas of an organization, allow J.D. Edwards OneWorld and WorldSoftware customers to receive an integrated, cross-functional view of their business data. Cognos previously established a J.D. Edwards Center of Excellence in the United States, Enabled Worlds, based in Atlanta. (See press release distributed March 22, 2000).

"Cognos provides immediate business value to the data companies have in their J.D. Edwards OneWorld and WorldSoftware solutions," said Simon Rigden, vice president and general manager, SUMAH Region at J.D. Edwards. "Business intelligence is a competitive requirement for organizations wishing to succeed in today's Internet landscape. As a long-standing business partner, Cognos and its new Center of Excellence are immediately able to present customers with value and expertise specific to the J.D. Edwards environment."

Enabled Worlds UK will recruit, support, and maintain a channel of J.D. Edwards services companies comprised of both national and regional partners. Sales, installation services and support to J.D. Edwards customers will be executed by these partners with support from Enabled Worlds UK. Enabled Worlds UK will provide partners and clients with full training, customized e-Application information resources, ongoing e-Application improvements and complementary products, as well as provide market education via user groups, newsletters and other marketing forums. Cognos direct sales force will also sell the Cognos e-Applications for J.D. Edwards to Fortune 1000 customers.

"We see tremendous opportunity in implementing Cognos e-Applications with J.D. Edwards OneWorld and WorldSoftware solutions, so that our customers can use the data to explore business drivers more effectively," said Kevin Drew, managing director at Triangle. "Cognos e-Applications provide users with a comprehensive view of data across the organization, reducing costs, increasing return on investment and helping managers make better business decisions. Cognos e-Applications will help our customers plan strategically for the future by making decisions in Internet time, and remain competitive."

"By establishing a Center of Excellence in the European market, Cognos continues to seize market share and capitalize on the exploding demand for business intelligence applications," said Alan Rottenberg, Cognos senior vice president of e-business intelligence applications. "Cognos and its partners are focused on bringing immediate business value and access to the vast amounts of corporate data stored within J.D. Edwards solution-based environments, and help our mutual customers increase sales productivity, competitiveness and customer satisfaction."

Available immediately for Sales Analysis, Cognos e-Applications for J.D. Edwards allow organizations to create a variety of key performance metrics and decision-ready reports to forecast accuracy, analyze pipeline volume, profile leads, calculate average deal size, and examine revenues and profitability. Enabled Worlds UK will also implement Cognos e-Applications for Inventory Analysis and e-Commerce Analysis, and additional e-Applications customized for the J.D. Edwards community.

About J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards is a leading provider of agile, collaborative solutions for the Internet economy. The Company's open solutions give organizations the freedom to choose how they assemble their internal applications and how they collaborate with partners and customers across the supply chain to increase competitive advantage.

About Triangle
Founded in 1981, Triangle presently operates throughout the UK supporting its customers by offering a complete systems integration and business solutions service. Triangle has been a partner of J.D. Edwards for several years, and is one of the largest IBM Business Partners in the UK. For more information, visit the Triangle Web site at http://www.triangle-group.com