Cognos 2001 News Release: Cognos Honors Key Partners for Outstanding Achievement in Channel Sales

BURLINGTON, MA, April 25, 2001—Cognos^® (NASDAQ:COGN ; TSE:CSN), the world's largest and most successful business intelligence company, recently recognized nine of its key channel partners with Pinnacle Partner Awards for their roles in the company's ongoing channel sales success in North America.

Presented at Cognos' Year 2002 Kick Off in Orlando, Florida, partners were recognized for their success with the Cognos solution based on understanding of the technology, sales performance, and value-add.

Channel Partners receiving the Pinnacle Award for outstanding sales achievement with Cognos' solutions are:

"These award winners, which primarily target small and medium-sized enterprises, have a proven track record of providing strategic solutions that enable their customers to increase efficiency and maximize profit," said Ted Jandl, Cognos area vice president of North American channel sales. "Cognos is pleased to award them with the Pinnacle Partner Award not only for their high levels of sales success, but also for helping their customers derive value and experience the benefits of our business intelligence technologies. They have proven that they can deliver a high level of excellence and will remain an integral part of our overall company success."

"John Daniels Associates is honored to partner with the world's leading Business Intelligence software company, Cognos, and to receive this award," said Jack Franz, president of John Daniel Associates. "We share a common vision of providing measurable value to our customers. Undoubtedly, the powerful blend of our consulting expertise and Cognos' best-in-breed solutions provides our clients with the answers necessary to gain a competitive, sustainable advantage."

"With Cognos' market-leading BI solutions, we are extending business application services, increasing the speed of business cycles, and delivering faster and higher return on investment," said Ralph Blore, vice president of business intelligence for Quovera. "The combinations of our solutions and our innovative practices have allowed clients to better understand their business, make informed decisions quickly, and create a competitive advantage. It is a unique and powerful combination of technologies from Cognos and Quovera that has allowed our joint success."

"We are very excited about being recognized for our success. Cognos is central to our strategy as we continue to grow our data warehousing practice," said Gary Shiller, Sky Solutions Vice President. "Sky Solutions identifies the best-of-breed products through our continuous industry research and partners with companies, such as Cognos, to help our customers get a complete business intelligence solution that improves their bottom-line business results. By combining high quality implementation and services through understanding industry demands, we can deploy scalable, results-oriented data warehousing solutions tailored to our clients' needs."

The Cognos channel program supplies partners with the support and technology they require in order to be successful, including end-to-end technical and product support, product maintenance, and product training. In addition, the programs deliver a variety of business development tools and resources, including sales and marketing materials.

BI Professionals—www.bipros.com—As a leading supplier for Business Intelligence in the southwest, BI Professionals, Inc. is experienced in leveraging an organization's data into true intelligence about the enterprise and its customers. BI Professionals utilizes the latest technologies for delivery and consumption of information, and coupled with their expertise and experience, the company assists organizations in achieving a true competitive advantage through the use of information.

CD Group—www.cdgroup.com—CD Group, Inc. is a national J.D. Edwards solution services company providing implementation, business consulting, and technical services. Besides J.D. Edwards implementation support, CD Group is a leader in business intelligence and e-commerce. Founded in 1992, this Atlanta-based company has provided exceptional service to the J.D. Edwards community, and as a result, has had an average annual growth rate of more than 50% over the last four years.

Creative Computing—www.creatcomp.com—Creative Computing strives to employ enabling technologies expertly to assist clients in transforming information into shareholder value. Web technology is redefining Business Intelligence, and Creative Computing is on the leading edge of this shift. By creating a fusion of custom Web applications and state of the art BI technology from Cognos, Creative Computing is enabling its customers to leapfrog their competitors by finding and developing prospects more quickly, working more effectively with suppliers and vendors, and controlling costs.

John Daniel Associates—www.johndaniel.com—John Daniel Associates is a Pittsburgh-based specialty consulting practice serving middle-market companies with strategic business intelligence solutions that work departmentally and enterprise-wide to create new, powerful views of information. Their proprietary process, VantagePoint, uses the world's leading BI software from Cognos to transfer raw data from Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, and e-business applications into business intelligence vital to competing and winning in the new economy.

Newcomp—www.newcomp.com—Established in 1986, Newcomp Solutions is a full service solution provider specializing in designing and implementing Business Intelligence Reporting and Data Warehouse systems. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Newcomp Solutions serves a broad cross-section of clients throughout Canada and the United States in a variety of industries including; Manufacturing, Banking, Government, Distribution, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications and Retail.

Quovera—www.quovera.com—Quovera is a Full Solution Partner (FSP) that builds and manages e-businesses for companies spanning Fortune 1000, high growth middle and emerging markets. By focusing on vertical industries, Quovera creates and leverages its e-products offerings to define, deliver and manage e-business solutions that speed time-to-market and create value for its clients.

Sky Solutions—www.skysolutions.com/businessintelligence.cfm—Sky Solutions is built on the strong belief that service is the key to client loyalty and long term success. Sky Solutions stands by its pledge to provide excellent support services. The company's solid experience and unparalleled support services have won accolades - and many referrals - from their valued clients.

Stonebridge Technologies—www.sbti.comd—Stonebridge Technologies is an award-winning technology consulting company serving businesses in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Stonebridge collaborates with clients to architect, develop and deliver enterprise integration solutions that leverage rapid advances in Web-enabled technologies and devices to transform and extend the life of existing business-critical systems. Built on the latest innovations of leading technology partners such as Cognos, Sun Microsystems and Oracle, Stonebridge's core skills in enterprise relationship management, business intelligence, and enterprise resource planning help clients increase revenues, gain operational efficiencies and create sustained competitive advantage.

Syntax—www.syntax.net—Syntax.net is an e-business integrator specializing in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management and Business Intelligence (BI) / Data Warehousing. The company partners with IBM, J.D. Edwards, Cognos, and other technology leaders in order to provide the best hardware and software solutions for its customers. Syntax.net offers a complete range of implementation services for all of its offerings. An extensive array of hardware and network solutions are also available including: LAN's, WAN's, Internet access, IBM AS/400, NT, and UNIX servers.

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