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 Syntax.net, a leading e-business integrator of Business Intelligence and Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) applications. Syntax.net resells, as well as provides installation, training, and design services for Cognos products, including Cognos Enterprise BI Series 7. Adding Cognos Enterprise Planning Series to their practice makes Syntax.net a leading supporter of the Cognos Corporate Performance Management (CPM) vision. /p>

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. By combining the positive results achieved through enterprise planning and business intelligence, Cognos customers have a roadmap to achieve a fast and abundant return on investment in their performance management initiatives.

"Cognos is synonymous with innovation and forward-thinking in corporate performance management, so we are especially pleased to be adding Cognos Enterprise Planning Series to our business strategy," said Gary Shaffran, Senior Vice President of Syntax.net. "Our customers tell us that controlling costs and getting the most out of their existing resources is essential to their business success. Cognos Enterprise Planning Series will help them to do that and more."

Cognos Enterprise Planning Series energizes the performance management cycle, bringing together planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidations, reporting, and financial analytics to eliminate the inconsistencies that constrain effective decision-making. Enterprise Planning Series powers the CFO to ensure operating plans align with corporate objectives to drive consistency, accuracy, and visibility by engaging the managers across the organization, whose decisions today will determine tomorrow's results. In turn, accelerated planning cycles anticipate evolving market conditions to provide real-time insight to future business performance.

"Syntax.net has a proven track record for delivering a high level of excellence with Cognos Business Intelligence solutions to provide their customers with the ability to not only analyze important data, but to also capture business opportunities and maximize profits," said Michael Morrison, vice president of North American Enterprise Planning and Financial Applications, Cognos. "We are pleased that Syntax has once again partnered with Cognos - this time around our enterprise planning solution - allowing customers to fulfill the promise of corporate performance management."