Burlington, MA, November 13, 2001—Central European food distributor and manufacturer Agrokor today announced its support for Cognos Series 7. Comprehensively tested in the Agrokor environment, Cognos Series 7 is the industry's most comprehensive, enterprise-class business intelligence solution from Cognos® (Nasdaq: COGN; TSE: CSN), the leading global provider of business intelligence solutions.

According to Drazen Orescanin, deputy director, IT services, Cognos Series 7 offers significant benefits to both IT and business users. New features like centralized administration, the integrated user environment and all-new event alerting give organizations a business intelligence solution that delivers an intuitive user experience backed up by unprecedented mission-critical availability and performance. Agrokor has 11 subsidiary companies and brands.

"With Cognos Series 7, Agrokor sees a solution that will benefit users access to the industry's best in robust analysis and elegant reporting capabilities available in one single, integrated environment," said Orescanin. "IT administration capabilities will address the IT requirements of mid- to large-scale environments. Best of all, Cognos NoticeCast allows us to give the power of business intelligence information to a broad base of our users - basically anyone with e-mail, mobile phones or PDAs."

Agrokor uses Cognos today for sales reporting and to analyze the performance of different stores, products, divisions within the company. With Cognos NoticeCast, Agrokor will have a way to spot trends and issues as they happen, and get that information to users in a business-critical timeframe. NoticeCast will enable Agrokor to keep its user base informed while they are on the road, at business trips or visiting customers.

"Cognos Series 7 marks a watershed moment in the business intelligence market. With this release Cognos is the first to deliver a solution that will put the broadest range and depth of functionality in the hands of tens of thousands of users," said Peter Griffiths, vice-president, research and development, Cognos. "Cognos is racing out in front of the market, with a solution that addresses and exceeds the requirements of today's enterprises."

About Agrokor:
Agrokor is a Central European food distributor and manufacturer. For more information please visit their Web site at http://www.agrokor.hr/