Burlington, MA, November 12, 2001—Cognos^® (Nasdaq: COGN; TSE: CSN), the leading global provider of business intelligence solutions today announced Cognos Series 7, the industry's most comprehensive, enterprise-class business intelligence (BI) solution. Cognos Series 7 offers mission-critical performance, reliability, and scalability, as well as unique operational event detection and alerting to wireless devices.

Designed to exceed the expectations of today's enterprises, the Cognos Series 7 BI framework provides scalability to tens of thousands of users, robust Unix and Microsoft support, unsurpassed performance and reliability, and a 'no-compromise' breadth and depth of application choice that reflects the unique needs of enterprise user communities.

Tested in some of the largest and most complex customer environments, Cognos Series 7 gives organizations the ability to address more business challenges than with any other business intelligence offering on the market today. Offering the full spectrum of BI capabilities with robust reporting, analysis, ad hoc query, scorecarding, visualization, and data mart creation, Cognos Series 7 delivers a unique business intelligence environment that allows users to navigate information intuitively and manage business performance from a central portal.

"Cognos Series 7 is enabling organizations to reconstitute themselves as BI-optimized, intelligent enterprises. Using Cognos Series 7, businesses can drive intelligence across and deeply into the distributed enterprise, connecting every team, every department, and every business unit and process. Each contributor to the value chain, whether inside or outside of the institution, is guaranteed an integrated, intuitive business user experience," said Bob Moran, research vice president and managing director, Decision Support, Aberdeen Group. "Cognos builds on these intelligent underpinnings with the new Cognos NoticeCast, out-of-the-box operational event monitors. Thus Series 7 is a compelling business intelligence solution -- an information environment that once again demonstrates why Cognos continues to be one of the leaders in the BI market place."

Cognos Series 7 provides today's enterprises with an unprecedented combination of broad-based information delivery and an integrated, unified user environment backed up by an enterprise-class BI framework.

Information Delivery
With the addition of Cognos NoticeCastT, tightly integrated into the Cognos Series 7 BI framework, customers get access to new mission-critical monitoring and alerting on business performance and operational events, providing up-to-the-minute information as key events occur. Business users can manage customer relationships, supply chain activity, sales and financial performance, and overall business health like never before. They can also access critical business information, and be alerted to key business events via e-mail, digital cell phone or personal digital assistant (PDA).

"The world has irrevocably changed. Public sector and military organizations are placing the highest-level priority on technologies and best practices that enable the mission-critical use of information. Cognos, with its new technology Cognos Series 7, is taking a significant step forward in helping the public sector bring just-in-time information to personnel anytime, anywhere. Cognos NoticeCast technology delivers specialized, narrowcast analyses and reports to the people who need them via wireless devices," Ed Waizenegger, Systems Engineering and Technical Services at the U.S Coast Guard and a consultant with Fuentz.

With Cognos Series 7, customers can benefit from Cognos NoticeCast's unique narrowcast, push BI functionality allowing them to pinpoint business patterns and build agent alerts based upon that intelligence and coupling it with either the robust business analytics from Cognos PowerPlay^® or the powerful ad hoc query functionality with Cognos Query^®.

Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence
Cognos Series 7 offers robust Unix and Microsoft support, best-in-class security features with support for SSL and LDAP, as well as the high performance, reliability and scalability demanded by enterprise customers.

The Amsterdam Academic Medical Center (AMC) is a teaching hospital located in Amsterdam, Holland. With over 18 different clinical research areas, AMC is one of the largest medical facilities in the country. For hundreds of managers at AMC, Cognos reporting and analysis is the primary method of accessing, analyzing, and reporting on critical finance, human resources, and production information. The AMC worked with Cognos in shaping Series 7, testing it within the AMC environment.

"With Series 7, Cognos has strengthened the already-robust business intelligence framework to deliver a solution with unprecedented stability, scalability, and ease of use," said Marc Klaassen, head of management information department, Amsterdam Academic Medical Center. "Cognos has integrated the components of the solution into the Upfront portal, giving users a single, unified interface to access critical business intelligence information."

Cognos Series 7 allows IT professionals to deploy from one hundred users to one hundred thousand users quickly with new deployment and configuration features. Cognos Series 7 offers centralized application and configuration management for administrators in complex, distributed environments.

Cognos Series 7 also offers enterprise environments the lowest total cost of ownership for a business intelligence solution. Through centralized security, administration, and content management, as well as easy application deployment and configuration management, Cognos delivers the BI solution that easily fits into any enterprise environment with a minimum of IT effort.

Unified User Environment
Cognos Series 7 further reduces the total cost of ownership by allowing users to access the industry's broadest range of BI functionality whether from the Cognos portal environment or integrated with any other third-party portal offering or application. With commonality across the shared meta data foundation, security and interface, users have one place to serve all their BI needs.

"Cognos Series 7 marks a watershed moment in the business intelligence market. Cognos has always delivered 'firsts' to the market. Cognos was the first company to bring business intelligence to the market with what later became Impromptu. Cognos delivered the first business intelligence solutions to the Web," said Peter Griffiths, vice-president, research and development, Cognos. "Today we are first with a solution that will put the broadest range and depth of functionality in the hands of tens of thousands of users. Cognos is racing out in front of the market, with a solution that addresses and exceeds the requirements of today's enterprises."

Cognos Series 7 supports a wide range of platforms Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, Windows NT, 2000, 95, 98, ME. As well, Cognos Series 7 provides support for Microsoft SSAS 2000, SAP BW, Essbase and IBM DB2 OLAP, as well as natively supports Teradata, IBM DB2, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase and ODBC relational data stores.

Availability
Cognos^® Series 7 along with Cognos^® NoticeCast will be widely available to customers January 2002.