Burlington, MA, November 15, 2001—Innovative Systems Associates (ISA) today announced support for Cognos® Series 7, the industry's most comprehensive, enterprise-class business intelligence solution. In partnership with Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSE: CSN), the leading global provider of business intelligence solutions, ISA leverages and consults on Cognos business intelligence solutions to help companies harness the power of information to make better business decisions, resulting in reduced costs and enhanced operating performance.

A Cognos premier partner since 1995, ISA provided technical and field feedback to Cognos Series 7 as a beta tester. ISA provides business intelligence solutions to customers across North America in the pharmaceutical, consumer product goods, financial services, and manufacturing sectors. Currently, joint Cognos-ISA customers include Johnson & Johnson, Newport News Shipbuilding, New York Board of Education, and PECO Energy.

"With Cognos Series 7, Cognos further asserts and extends its presence in the business intelligence space. Through the delivery of improved administrative and deployment functions, Cognos Series 7 brings the integration of all of the Cognos applications from visualization all the way to data mart creation. The result is a business intelligence solution that offers enterprises a robust, single vendor solution for all their business intelligence requirements," said Thomas Palmer, Vice President of Consulting Services at ISA. "In partnership with Cognos we continue to provide an integrated business intelligence framework to our customers that is designed for easy deployment throughout some of the largest enterprises in the world."

With Cognos NoticeCastT, ISA customers will have a way to track business events and issues, like inventory and supply levels, as they happen, and get that information to users in a business-critical timeframe. NoticeCast will enable ISA customers to keep its user base informed while they are on the plant floor, traveling on business trips, or visiting with customers.

"Cognos Series 7 is about a recognition that business intelligence has become all-encompassing. Organizations now need to live in a business intelligence-driven work environment," said Ted Jandl, Vice President of North American Channel Sales. "In today's economy, the ability to understand and analyze data and convert that data into actionable business intelligence is critical. With partners like ISA, we are enabling companies to know their customers and manage business performance better than ever."

About Innovative Systems Associates:
Innovative Systems Associates (ISA) is a technology-consulting firm, focused on helping large companies, across all industries turn their corporate data into valuable information for competitive advantage. ISA was founded in 1995 with a vision of providing only the highest quality consultants to carry out this mission.

ISA maintains four Practice areas to allow customers to leverage all, or part of our capabilities: Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Web Development, and Training. For more information about ISA, visit the ISA Web site at http://www.isaconsulting.com.