Burlington, MA, November 12, 2001—Cognos^® (Nasdaq: COGN; TSE: CSN), the leading global provider of business intelligence solutions, today announced widespread industry feedback for Cognos Series 7. Cognos Series 7 is the industry's most comprehensive, enterprise-class business intelligence solution, delivering an integrated user environment, with robust Unix and Windows NT support, scalability to tens of thousands of users, and all-new, broad-based information delivery options.

Bayer UK
Bayer plc is a subsidiary of Bayer AG - one of the world's largest and most diversified chemical and pharmaceutical companies. Bayer's products are involved in every major area of industrial, commercial and domestic life including building and construction, automotive components, electrical white goods, computers, business machines, food and drink, textiles, diagnostic instruments, medicines, agrochemicals, animal health and eco-protection.

Cognos Series 7 was rigorously tested in the Bayer environment. Bayer UK is an existing user of the Cognos solution, using Cognos reporting and analysis to deliver key business insights to regional managers, finance and sales personnel.

"Cognos Series 7 is a major step forward for both IT and business users of business intelligence. The centralized administration and configuration and deployment features mean a solution that delivers rapid time to result," said Chris Edge, business consultant, Bayer UK. "The integration of all the business applications through the Cognos BI portal gives business users an incredibly simple way to access business intelligence. Cognos NoticeCast will allow organizations like ours to extend our BI reach and will result in a more informed, coordinated organization."

The Amsterdam Academic Medical Center
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."

Fuentez Systems Concepts
Using technology from Cognos, Fuentez Systems Concepts has been able to deploy comprehensive decision support systems for organizations like the U.S. Coast Guard. A long-standing solutions and consulting partner to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force, Fuentez Systems Concept, based in Charleston, SC, helps organizations like the U.S. Coast Guard manage internal information to assist with critical decision making around personnel deployment, resource allocation, logistics support, and risk management.

"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," said Ed Waizenegger, Systems Engineering and Technical Services at the U.S. Coast Guard and a consultant with Fuentz. "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 most via wireless devices."

Aberdeen
"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, 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."

Hurwitz
"Cognos' designed Series 7 to be easy to deploy and to administer. The result is a BI solution that is fully integrated and ready for use throughout the most complex, distributed enterprise environments. The powerful capabilities of NoticeCast include the unique ability to monitor operational events and proactively deliver vital information to anyone with email access. This allows Cognos to extend the reach of its solutions far beyond their traditional installed base. Clearly, with Series 7, Cognos will evolve and strengthen its position as a global leader in the business intelligence market."

ComputerWire
"Cognos Series 7 represents the next generation of the Cognos business intelligence tool-set. Cognos Series 7 is built on a solid foundation laid by Cognos' scalable enterprise business intelligence platform. It addresses key pain-points within IT organizations by focusing on tighter integration with third-party data sources and OLAP systems, enhanced administration and easier deployment capabilities. Perhaps more significant is the powerful 'event-driven' business analysis and information delivery that is enabled by the new Cognos NoticeCast component. The result is an scalable business intelligence environment that enables ubiquitous information delivery across the enterprise through a single, personalized interface."