BURLINGTON, MA, April 24, 2002—Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSE: CSN), the leading global provider of business intelligence solutions, today announced widespread partner endorsement for Cognos Analytic Applications. These partnerships have resulted in joint customers and were established to provide additional value to large and small Cognos Analytic Applications customers across industries.

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 Applications leverage built-in business value, are extensible for competitive business advantage, and offer a production-ready architecture, driving faster time to results. The result is a single, integrated, 360-degree view of business operations built upon a single common foundation for enterprise-wide corporate performance management.

Several application partners have successfully integrated Cognos Analytic Applications into their own product offerings, including Teradata a division of NCR, FrontStep, and SSA Global Technologies. By embedding Cognos Analytic Applications, partners are incorporating Cognos' analytical application expertise and best practices into their own solutions to help increase the competitiveness of their distinguished offerings. This demonstrates that Cognos customers and partners continue to support the core business intelligence values inherent in Cognos Analytic Applications.

Cognos' sales and services partners, including CD Group, Corning Data Services, and Sky Solutions, are making Cognos Analytic Applications part of their overall business strategy. These partners extend the value of Cognos Analytic Applications by supplying additional sales channels; delivering services and domain expertise during implementation and roll out; and offering management insights to help customers understand how to best leverage Cognos Analytic Applications.

Today, Cognos Analytic Applications are at work in some of the world's largest and most innovative companies, including Paris-based Lafarge, one of the world's largest supplier of construction materials and the world's largest supplier of cement and Advantis, a leading pool and spa chemical and accessory manufacturer.

"Key, worldwide partners have demonstrated outstanding support of Cognos Analytic Applications," said David Kleinhans, area vice president, Cognos Analytic Applications. "The analytic applications market will be won by the company who can deliver field-tested, mature solutions that deliver value for partners and customers. Through the support of our partners, we are excited to offer our joint customers an end-to-end solution to meet the requirements demanded by today's enterprise."

Cognos Analytic Applications have received key endorsements from several of the company's application partners:

Frontstep
"Success in today's economy requires fast, decisive responses to complex business challenges. It means maximizing the value of the information in ERP and other business systems," said Daryll Wartluft, executive vice president of products at Frontstep. "Cognos Analytic Applications make it easier for our customers to harness ERP and other transactional data and transform it into actionable insight. By gaining immediate functional and cross-functional views of business, users can more accurately assess operational effectiveness, optimize customer relationships, and improve supply chain processes."

SSA Global Technologies
"SSA GT is partnering closely with Cognos in the development of the analytic applications to provide our customers with the capability to use BPCS data for business performance measurement — facilitating rapid, effective decision making," said Graeme Cooksley, executive vice president of Global Sales and Marketing, SSA GT. "We are especially pleased to leverage Cognos' use of business industry experts in the development of standard measurements and reports. Undoubtedly, the most successful organizations will be those that use BPCS Enterprise Performance Analytics based on Cognos Analytic Applications to make consistent, coordinated decisions, and share it with partners, suppliers, and customers to grow the business and strengthen the value chain."

Teradata, a division of NCR
"CEOs and CFOs are expected to have their finger on the pulse of their business at all times. With an enterprise data warehouse from Teradata, they get the complete view of their operations necessary to make day-to-day decisions," said Mike DeBrosse, vice president, Teradata Financial Management Solutions marketing. "By incorporating Cognos Analytic Applications' expertise and best practices into Teradata's Financial Management Solution, we are allowing business managers not only to understand the health of their business as it stands today, but also to better forecast where their business is headed in the future."

Several of the company's sales and services partners have also demonstrated ongoing support for Cognos Analytic Applications:

CD Group, Inc.
"By delivering Cognos Analytic Applications, we are extending and complementing the J.D. Edwards solutions to help our mutual customers increase sales productivity, competitiveness and customer satisfaction," said Bill DeSpain, executive director, CD Group. "J.D. Edwards ERP clients need better analysis and reporting tools, and we're pleased to have an approach that brings improvement so quickly and easily."

Corning Data Services, Inc.
"Corning Data Services has teamed up with Cognos to bring our customers pre-packaged analysis and reporting solutions designed specifically for J.D. Edwards," said George Cottiero, director of sales, eSolutions, Corning Data Services. "With Cognos Analytic Applications, customers get an integrated, big-picture view of an entire organization based on consistent, up-to-date information. Because Cognos Analytic Applications are easy to configure, deploy, extend, and maintain, our customers are up and running in a fraction of the time it takes to start from scratch. From data mart creation to report generation, Cognos Analytic Applications supply everything you need to implement a robust, scalable business intelligence solution 'out-of-the-box.'"

InBusiness Solutions
"Cognos Analytic Applications for Oracle's eBusiness Suite deliver a solution that 'snaps in place' with a minimum of IT effort," said Mark Quigg, president, InBusiness Solutions. "Business users reap the benefits of the pre-packaged business content, rapidly putting the right information in the hands of decision makers."

MSS Technologies
"The sights of global businesses are now set squarely on the need to achieve greater operational effectiveness, sooner, in an increasingly challenging business environment. For this reason, companies are looking to analytic applications to help them meet their business objectives," said Michael Hawksworth, president and CEO at MSS Technologies. "Cognos Analytic Applications for J.D. Edwards provide companies with the industry's most complete suite of business performance management analytic applications."

Sky Solutions
"Cognos products consistently deliver the highest productivity gains to the user, the most manageable solution to the administrator, and the fastest return on investment to the enterprise," said Gary Shiller, vice president of Sky Solutions. "By teaming with Cognos to offer Cognos Analytic Applications, we are utilizing Cognos' turnkey solution, especially designed for J.D. Edwards' systems, that allow businesses to generate highly sophisticated analyses of key business factors that allow users to make informed business decisions."

Syntax.net
"By using Cognos Analytic Applications, J.D. Edwards OneWorld and WorldSoftware customers receive a complete, cross-functional view of their ERP data, providing a strategic perspective on key performance indicators, reducing implementation costs and effort, and driving business and time to results," said Michael Etinson, president, Syntax.net. "Cognos Analytic Applications offer joint Cognos and J.D. Edwards customers a solution to leverage their investment by extending the value of their data for better business performance management."

Quovera Corporation
"Cognos Analytic Applications provide deep strategic insight, answering virtually any business question in all the important areas of analysis," said Ralph Blore, vice president of business intelligence for Quovera. "The combinations of the Cognos-Quovera solution 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 that has allowed business users to derive the insight they need from tested and proven packaged business content."

ABOUT COGNOS ANALYTIC APPLICATIONS
Cognos Analytic Applications are pre-built reporting and analysis applications with pre-packaged business content and a production-ready architecture designed to extend the value of existing investments in ERP and other operational systems. With six analytic applications — sales, accounts receivable, general ledger, accounts payable, inventory and procurement — organizations can benefit from a single, integrated, 360-degree view of business operations built upon a common foundation for enterprise-wide corporate performance management.