BURLINGTON, MA & GLEN ELLYN, IL, August 13, 2003—Cognos (NASDAQ:COGN; TSX:CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, and Kinsey & Kinsey, a full-service solution provider of application software and consulting services, today announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Kinsey & Kinsey, a former Adaytum partner, will sell and offer consulting services for Cognos Enterprise Planning Series. The company provides clients a range of expertise in the areas of financials, procurement, payroll, budgeting, planning, distribution, manufacturing, and sales and marketing. Customers include Orbitz, Bowe, Bell & Howell, Stericycle, and Grand Motor Vehicle Works.

Cognos Enterprise Planning Series streamlines the performance management cycle, bringing together planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidations, reporting, and financial analytics to eliminate the inconsistencies that constrain effective decision-making. Cognos empowers CFOs and financial professionals to ensure operating plans align with corporate objectives to drive consistency, accuracy and visibility by engaging managers across the organization. As a result, CFOs get better visibility and reliability in their financials at a summary and detail level, with the ability to distribute accountability throughout the organization. This provides a single, reliable, and accurate view of financials for all stakeholders.

"The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has magnified companies' need for increased accuracy, timeliness, and transparency into external financial reporting processes. Cognos makes the standardization and consolidation process easier for our customers," said Heather Cole, vice president, Kinsey & Kinsey. "Through our Cognos partnership, we offer a robust solution that delivers the required functionality necessary to address today's rigorous reporting requirements for both financial and non-financial data."

"Faster business cycles, greater complexity, and intense pressure from investors for positive business results all impel finance executives to look beyond their current budgeting process. Executives are looking for new business capabilities that will allow them to plan in a more collaborative, de-centralized way, link strategic objectives to operational targets and actions, and increase the levels of ownership and accuracy of the business plans," said Michael Morrison, vice president of North American Enterprise Planning and Financial Applications, Cognos. "Partnering with leaders in the financial space like Kinsey & Kinsey will allow Cognos to drive corporate performance to our customers."

About Kinsey & Kinsey:
Kinsey & Kinsey, Inc. is a full-service solution provider of application software and consulting services. Since 1983, Kinsey & Kinsey has been providing clients a broad range of expertise in the areas of financials, procurement, human resources, payroll, budgeting, planning, distribution, manufacturing, sales and marketing, and more.

The company specializes in application sales, implementation and integration, with an emphasis in traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP), budgeting and planning solutions. Partnerships include Lawson Software, Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains as well as Cognos.