BURLINGTON, MA, April 23, 2002—Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSE: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI), today announced widespread partner support for its corporate performance management (CPM) vision. Cognos is the first BI vendor to deliver a comprehensive framework for corporate performance management. The business intelligence leader has embraced CPM as the future of the business intelligence market.

Organizations use CPM to align business strategy with execution across the enterprise. Cognos BI fulfills the promise of CPM by enabling the entire management cycle — planning, budgeting, reporting, analysis, and scorecarding. While other BI vendors offer point products which address isolated elements of CPM, Cognos is unique in its ability to deliver a BI solution that is comprehensive enough to enable an organization to fulfill its entire CPM strategy over the long-term.

"Our partners have chosen Cognos because they believe we have the vision, capability, and established track record to help the world's largest organizations elevate business performance to new heights," said Ted Jandl, area vice president of North American channel sales, Cognos. "Through these partnerships, Cognos is able to extend the delivery of our framework for corporate performance management to the masses. We will continue to work closely with our partners to deliver on that promise."

Cognos' CPM vision has received strong support from several of the company's leading partners, including:

CREATIVE COMPUTING:
"The role of every business decision-maker is to understand how effectively the business is performing, why it's performing that way, and to be empowered to make the most appropriate decisions to drive success. Harnessing information to empower people and processes has never been more critical to success," said David Doucette, president and chief executive officer of Creative Computing, Inc. "Cognos offers a broad BI solution that consolidates information from across the enterprise and enables people at every level of the organization to make smart decisions that drive corporate performance."

DELTEK:
"Over the past several years, most large businesses have invested in enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and data warehousing systems to help them use their information more effectively, enterprise-wide. However, these implementations were only a first step toward creating true corporate performance management," said Matt Fogo, vice president of product development, Enterprise Systems Division, Deltek Enterprise Systems. "By partnering with Cognos, we are delivering the critical strategies companies need to better connect people to the business, its vision, and its performance."

eNVISN:
"Business survival and competitive edge depend on the efficiency and effectiveness of a company's entire value chain," said Rick Ryan, eNVISN's president. "To empower people, organizations need to provide everyone who makes decisions that impact business performance with a shared, holistic view into the company's overall strategy, and a clear understanding of how their role impacts overall performance. Cognos business intelligence combines information from the entire business to let people make smart decisions and, together, drive corporate performance."

EXINOM:
"Cognos is unique in its ability to deliver a business intelligence solution that is comprehensive enough to enable an organization to fulfill its entire CPM strategy," said Suresh Nichani president and chief executive officer of Exinom. "Working with Cognos, we are helping organizations tie the efforts of individual employees to the fulfillment of corporate strategy - delivering increased competitive advantage and shareholder value."

NEW ENGLAND SYSTEMS:
"Cognos' strategy for CPM binds together processes and value drivers, and provides the mechanism to model, measure and optimize resources, operations, and behavior," said Joe Bresette, director of customer business development at New England Systems. "Cognos' thought-leadership in the area of CPM, coupled with its ability to address the complete range of business intelligence needs across an organization, will play a fundamental role in ensuring our customers' success."

STONEBRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES:
"Business intelligence is the heart and soul of true 'enterprise integration,' which is the direction of business computing today," said James Ivy, Stonebridge Technologies' chief executive officer. "Cognos' CPM vision is consistent with our vision of enterprise integration because it provides the ability to create a complete view of the enterprise's performance, serving up the information decision-makers need to truly monitor and improve key parts of the business: operations, sales, accounting, finance, customer service, and more. With its CPM vision, Cognos is demonstrating its thorough understanding of the complex BI issues facing business users as well as its drive for innovation and forward-thinking in BI software development."