BURLINGTON, MA, October 23, 2002—Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI), today announced Cognos Visualizer has been awarded the coveted Intelligent Enterprise Magazine's Readers' Choice award for best data visualization solution for the second year running. The award-winning solutions are chosen annually based on feedback from the business intelligence and data warehousing user community.

"Cognos Visualizer was one of the landslide winners of this year's IE Reader's Choice, with at least 100 percent more votes than its closest followers," said David Stodder, editorial director of Intelligent Enterprise. "Winning for the second year in a row, Cognos Visualizer has again garnered an overwhelming percentage of our reader's vote in this category."

Cognos Visualizer provides broad-based support for quality methodologies like Six Sigma, the rigorous performance measurement system designed to drive continuous process improvements toward a goal of zero defects in products and services. Allowing global organizations to create robust and easy to design dashboards for Six Sigma and other quality methodologies, Cognos Visualizer allows decision-makers to view multiple, diverse metrics in a single visualization.

Users benefit from the ability to monitor metrics with Cognos scorecarding and gain additional context through visual analysis with Cognos Visualizer in a rich managed reporting environment. By providing users with geographic, cross-functional views, or reports animated over time at once in a highly intuitive graphical manner allowing them to understand the interrelationships between key metrics to effectively manage the performance of their business.

"It is an enormous honor to again be chosen by Intelligent Enterprise readers. The IE Reader's Choice awards are one of the industry's most prestigious as they come from the user community that evaluates and uses business intelligence solutions every day," said Don Campbell, vice president, product innovation & technology. "This is proof positive that Cognos Visualizer continues to lead the market in its unique ability to quickly and easily create visualizations of business intelligence data - enabling accelerated decision-making."