BURLINGTON, MA, Oct. 16, 2000—Cognos^® (Nasdaq:COGN; TSE:CSN), the world's largest and most successful business intelligence company, today announced an agreement valued at more than $1 million dollars with Schneider Logistics, Green Bay, Wis., to supply a business intelligence extranet.

Schneider Logistics' customers will be able to access reports and analyze personalized account information at Internet speed using the zero-footprint Cognos extranet solution. The fee-based service will create a new revenue source for Schneider Logistics, and add significant value to its e-business relationships.

Schneider Logistics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schneider National, Inc., provides comprehensive logistics solutions and world-class supply chain technology to business partners throughout North America and Europe. Schneider National previously deployed a Cognos solution across its organization and achieved return on investment within six months. The initial success with Cognos, and the potential to create a new revenue source by marketing information to customers, spurred Schneider Logistics to develop the business intelligence extranet.

"The strategic partnership between Schneider and Cognos is a model for how two companies can create business value and revenue opportunities for both partners," said Bill Braddy, Schneider Logistics' Vice President of Engineering and Knowledge Services. "We consider the Cognos partnership and solutions to be a strategic and essential part of our business."

Schneider Logistics' customers will access the Cognos extranet through an easy-to-use and secure Web browser. Analytical insights derived from these Cognos-based products will enable customers to quickly identify potential savings and cost avoidance opportunities. Schneider Logistics leaders intend to strengthen customer acquisition and improve customer retention as a result. The company and its customers will also benefit from faster knowledge sharing achieved by reducing reliance on paper reports and a significant reduction in related retrieval and inputting of data.

External end-users from senior executives to administrators will be able to access aggregated analytical data and Cognos reports on transactions and freight and transportation management. They can break down the summaries and analyze more detailed information using Cognos multidimensional Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). For example, a customer can access an aggregated report on a series of shipments and then drill down to a particular shipment for details on time, cost, distance, and other critical information.

Schneider Logistics' extranet will include Cognos' OLAP, managed reporting and open Portal components. The software will operate in a Sun Microsystems UNIX environment and access data in an Oracle data warehouse. Schneider Logistics cited the breadth and depth of the Cognos solution, it's robust OLAP capabilities, scalability in a UNIX environment, and zero-footprint HTML architecture, which is ideal for large-scale e-business deployments, as the key reasons it selected Cognos.

"Information is rapidly becoming a marketable product for organizations, and Cognos' business intelligence extranets are gaining broad acceptance as the preferred solution to create new sources of revenue and business value," said Terry Hall, Cognos chief operating officer. "In the business intelligence market, only Cognos had the foresight to build its extranet solutions using zero-footprint HTML. This assures that our software solutions scale to any size system to meet ongoing demands along with the security and reliability features that global e-business require."

About Schneider Logistics
Schneider Logistics is a wholly owned subsidiary of Schneider National, Inc., North America's largest truckload transportation company with annual revenues of $3 billion. Schneider serves more than two-thirds of the Fortune 500 companies and a growing number of business-to-business e-commerce companies through its transportation and logistics services.

Schneider Logistics provides comprehensive logistics solutions and supply chain technology to business partners throughout North America and Europe. It's services include: freight management, analysis, re-engineering, computer-based systems for shipment control, and carrier management.

Schneider National has solid experience using information technology to help its customers compete more effectively. Schneider is ranked within the top 100 companies on the current InformationWeek Top 500 List of Leading IT Innovators and was recently named to the CIO-100 list.

Schneider's transportation services include van, bulk, and specialized. Schneider National is based in Green Bay, Wis.

For more information about Schneider, visit www.schneider.com or call (800) 558-6767.