BURLINGTON, MA & TORONTO, ON, June 23, 2003 —Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced it has strengthened its partnership with Newcomp Solutions, a full service solution provider specializing in designing and implementing Business Intelligence Reporting and Data Warehouse systems. Newcomp will resell and offer consulting services for Cognos Enterprise Planning Series in addition to Cognos Enterprise BI Series 7, making Newcomp a leading supporter of Cognos' Corporate Performance Management (CPM) vision.

Cognos' Corporate Performance Management Solutions, comprising of Cognos Enterprise Planning Series, Cognos Metrics Manager, and Cognos Enterprise BI Series 7, are a family of integrated offerings that drive performance through planning, monitor performance through scorecarding, and understand performance through business intelligence. Cognos' CPM solutions address the complete performance management cycle that links individual execution to the strategic goals of the enterprise.

"This extended partnership bolsters our product and service offering - allowing Newcomp to increase the level of service we deliver to our clients and to be recognized as a go-to company for all Cognos solutions," said Michael Langton, Partner, Newcomp Solutions. "Newcomp has proven success in the business intelligence market and this extended partnership reinforces our successes working with financial applications."

Cognos Enterprise Planning Series enables and drives the performance management cycle, bringing together planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidations, reporting, and financial analytics. Enterprise Planning, typically driven by the CFO, closes the loop between planning and performance throughout all key processes and planning areas of a corporation, delivers real-time insight into future performance, and aligns plans and activities across the organization for fast, efficient, and synchronized execution to optimize future outcomes.

"Newcomp is a successful and proven business intelligence partner and this extended partnership will bring Cognos increased representation in mid-market finance space," said Michael Morrison, vice president of North American Enterprise Planning and Financial Applications, Cognos. "Newcomp and Cognos will now provide our mutual customers with the flexible business intelligence solution they need to use their financial data for maximum effect and help enable their CPM objectives."

About Newcomp Solutions Inc.
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, and with field offices in London, Ottawa and Montreal, 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. Newcomp is proud to be the recipient of the Cognos Pinnacle Partner award for the fourth consecutive year and is an active participant in the Cognos Preferred Consulting Partner Program.