BURLINGTON, MA, January 28, 2002—Cognos (Nasdaq:COGN; TSE:CSN), the leading global provider of business intelligence solutions, today announced the availability of the complete suite of enterprise analytic applications for Oracle^® eBusiness Suite. Delivering the industry's best breadth and depth, and fastest time to result for analytic applications, Cognos^® Analytic Applications provide a complete enterprise foundation of pre-packaged analytic applications for Oracle^® eBusiness Suite customers.

The new Cognos Analytic Applications for Oracle eBusiness Suite include analyses of sales, general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, and procurement. Cognos Analytic Applications are pre-built business analysis and reporting solutions that extend the value of existing investments in ERP and other operational systems. The result is a single, integrated, 360-degree view of business operations built upon a common foundation for enterprise-wide business performance management.

"Cognos continues to demonstrate solid analytic applications momentum. Building on a proven foundation and customer successes, Cognos is now delivering a full suite for both J.D. Edwards and Oracle customers. These extensible applications can also enfold information from many line-of-business and process applications," said Bob Moran, research vice president and managing director, Decision Support Research at the Aberdeen Group. "Many 'analytic applications' are merely buckets of reports. In contrast, Cognos analytic applications, which include numerous valuable reports, are based on substantial business and technical content. Although one benefit of having this domain and technical expertise right in the box is fast implementation time, the greater merit is the role Cognos analytic applications can play in paving the way for truly coordinated organizations."

Cognos Analytic Applications for Oracle eBusiness Suite give organizations insight into business strengths, trouble spots, and bottlenecks across the entire organization. By giving decision-makers a means to rapidly access operational data, perform analysis, and answer key questions, Cognos Analytic Applications give organizations the single best way to make better, fact-based business decisions.

Cognos Analytic Applications deliver the following for Oracle, J.D. Edwards WorldSoftware and OneWorld:

• Over 200 pre-built reports and analyses leveraging Cognos PowerPlay^® and Cognos Impromptu^®.

• Packaged best practices reflecting key business questions and hundreds of measures and key performance indicators across the enterprise.

• Defined ETL extractions from ERPs using Cognos DecisionStream.

• An Analytic Application Foundation based on an enterprise data model.

• Production controls to simplify installation, configuration to match ERP implementations, and ongoing maintenance.

• Flexibility for extensions and customizations.

Business content value

Cognos Analytic Applications for Oracle eBusiness Suite leverage Cognos' over two years of analytic applications expertise and the experiences with one of the industry's largest customer bases among independent BI vendors. The business content of Cognos Analytic Applications for Oracle eBusiness Suite was collected through extensive interviews with consultants, professionals, and business veterans within Cognos' Fortune 2000 customer base. Customers benefit from pre-packaged line of business content and technical best practices across the business with hundreds of reports, business metrics and key performance indicators.

Single view of the entire business

Cognos Analytic Applications for Oracle eBusiness Suite are built on an Analytic Application Foundation - an integrated enterprise data model - ensuring the results are business driven (not data driven), and can integrate with the other applications to grow into a more complete holistic view of the business from both functional and process view.

Fastest time to results

The Cognos approach brings decision-makers and IT together with a fast path to a solution with less impact on both sets of resources. The packaged extractions, data model, reports and analyses, and production controls contribute to a fast time to implementation and better-informed business decisions.

The packaged extractions and production controls ease configuration of the applications to match Oracle customizations- addressing the unique hurdles of extracting data from Oracle eBusiness Suite.

"With this announcement Cognos builds upon its foundation of proven analytic applications already at work in some of the world's leading companies," said Mark Quigg, president, InBusiness Solutions, a long-time strategic business partner with Cognos. "Cognos Analytic Applications for Oracle eBusiness Suite deliver a solution that 'snaps in place' with a minimum of IT effort. Business users reap the benefits of the pre-packaged business content, rapidly putting the right information in the hands of decision makers."

"A global customer base, demonstrable business benefits and a wide range of partnerships set Cognos Analytic Applications apart from any competitive solution on the market today. There's never been a more important time for organizations to achieve a true co-ordinated view of their organizations," said Alan Rottenberg, senior vice president, Cognos Analytic Applications Business Unit. "Cognos Analytic Applications for Oracle eBusiness Suite allow today's enterprises to break down the walls of information and build a true foundation for business performance management 'out of the box'. Oracle customers will greatly benefit from the industry's best time to result, best single-vendor breadth of application sophistication and choice."

Availability

In beta now, Cognos Analytic Applications for Oracle eBusiness Suite will be released in the first quarter of 2002.

About Cognos Analytic Applications:

Cognos Analytic Applications are pre-built reporting and analysis applications that extend the value of your existing investments in ERP and other operational systems. They drive increases in resource productivity and reductions in operating bottlenecks and process inefficiencies with a strong understanding of your processes and functions. The result is a single, integrated, 360-degree view of your business operations built upon a single common foundation for enterprise wide business performance management. Combining best business practices with best BI practices enables insight into what is behind your core business drivers for all levels in your company drive better, confident, fact-based decision-making enabling action and optimization.