BURLINGTON, MA, Dec. 21, 2001—Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN: TSE: CSN), the leading global provider of business intelligence solutions, today announced that it has further strengthened its strategic relationship with Deloitte & Touche, one of North America's leading professional services firms. Deloitte & Touche will offer J.D. Edwards customers consulting and implementation services for Cognos Analytic Applications in Canada.

Cognos Analytic Applications are pre-built analytic applications that extend the value of existing investments in ERP and other operational systems. Cognos Analytic Applications help J.D. Edwards customers rapidly derive business value from their enterprise data and deploy it over the Web for a coordinated view of their business, providing fast, actionable answers to hundreds of critical business questions.

"Cognos is providing immediate business value and a rapid return on the investment companies have in their J.D. Edwards knowledge management systems," said Tom Dagenais, national partner, Deloitte & Touche. "With Cognos Analytic Applications, Deloitte & Touche is now extending and complementing the J.D. Edwards solutions to help our mutual customers increase sales productivity, competitiveness, and customer satisfaction."

Cognos Analytic Applications drive increases in productivity, and reductions in operating bottlenecks and process inefficiencies. The result is an integrated, 360-degree view of business operations built upon a single common foundation for enterprise-wide business performance management.

"Business performance in today's economy depends principally on an organization's ability to turn investments into results, fast. Cognos Analytic Applications meets this challenge head-on by seamlessly integrating with existing business intelligence infrastructure and offering pre-packaged reports that deliver rapid time to results for the user," said Donald Labs, Cognos vice president, Enterprise Business Partners. "Cognos' strengthened partnership with Deloitte & Touche will help increase the competitiveness of J.D. Edwards' customers by combining Cognos Analytic Applications' expertise with Deloitte & Touche's exceptional consulting and implementation services."

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