BURLINGTON, MA, September 9, 2003—Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced widespread vendor endorsement for Cognos ReportNet. Cognos ReportNet offers unrivaled enterprise reporting coverage including production reporting, the ability to dramatically streamline report authoring, and an unparalleled openness and flexibility - all designed to meet the needs of today's multi-national, diversified enterprises.

Cognos ReportNet solution draws upon Cognos reporting and query leadership, delivering the next revolution of reporting. Offering unprecedented language support, open architecture, and ease of administration, Cognos ReportNet will enable massive scale reporting deployments and the ability for the Global 3,500 to standardize on a single reporting solution worldwide. Delivering enterprise production reporting with pixel-perfect formatting for both Web and print, Cognos ReportNet opens up a broad range of reporting possibilities for organizations looking to provide rich, value-added business intelligence to its customers.

"With this launch, Cognos strengthens our market position as we stand-alone with the only complete product set supporting CPM," said Patrick O'Leary, vice president of strategic alliances, Cognos. "Cognos has developed an enterprise reporting solution that provides functionality never before seen at this level. With the support of our partners, we are excited to offer our joint customers a business intelligence solution to meet the requirements demanded by today's enterprise."

Several of the company's premier technology partners have expressed their support for the launch of Cognos ReportNet, including:

BEA SYSTEMS, INC.:
"Built on open standards such as J2EE, SOAP, and XML, BEA WebLogic Platform is a foundation that helps developers rapidly build and deploy reliable Web services today," said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, global software partners, BEA Systems, Inc. "Our market and industry leading platform can help customers to integrate Web service enabled business intelligence solutions from leading companies such as Cognos. Through our continued support of Cognos' initiatives, including the support of Cognos ReportNet, BEA and Cognos can provide joint customers with a highly scalable, reliable infrastructure for deploying enterprise applications that are designed to be easily linked with the Cognos business intelligence solution."

eBUSINESS ADVANTAGE:
"Cognos ReportNet offers unrivaled enterprise reporting coverage with the ability to dramatically streamline report authoring and an unparalleled openness and flexibility - all designed to meet the needs of today's multi-national, diversified enterprises," said Mohamed Zakir Hussain, chief technology officer, eBusiness Advantage. "Working with Cognos, this product will continue to allow us to provide superior reporting and analysis solutions to organizations - improving decision making and greatly impact the overall performance of their entire organizations."

HEWLETT-PACKARD:
"HP customers demand mission-critical performance of our solutions. We understand performance, reliability, and scalability are issues where there can be no compromise," said Bruno Castejon, director, Business Intelligence Solutions and Alliances, Enterprise Solutions Partners, Hewlett-Packard. "The mission-critical performance of Cognos ReportNet answers the mission-critical reporting requirements of today's enterprises. HP is pleased to partner with Cognos in bringing Cognos ReportNet to our joint customers."

IBM:
"Cognos ReportNet, in conjunction with DB2 Universal Database, can help organizations uncover hidden relationships, spot key trends, and plan more effective strategies using all their business data," said Karen Parrish, vice president, Worldwide Business Intelligence Solutions, IBM. "Our continued support of Cognos' initiatives, including Cognos ReportNet and their planned IBM-supported resource center at Cognos' Ottawa headquarters, allows our customers to derive business value throughout the enterprise, extending the reach of business intelligence solutions into new and emerging markets."

MANUGISTICS:
"With the integration of Cognos ReportNet, we will provide great value to our global clients by delivering a unique solution - one that offers multinational organizations a one-stop reporting solution that is locale-sensitive, supported by a single metadata model," said Lori Mitchell-Keller, senior vice president of market strategy for Manugistics. "The extensive functionality offered by Manugistics and Cognos will enable the delivery of fully integrated planning, execution and business analytics which can help further our clients' strategic business objectives - enabling profitable growth, helping unlock the value of IT investment, and helping ensure the security and integrity of global supply chains."

MICROSOFT:
"Microsoft has a rich history of providing the scalable, secure, and affordable platform on which powerful, mission critical solutions like Cognos' ReportNet can be rapidly deployed," said Mark Young, GM of Microsoft's Platform Strategy and Partner Group. "We are pleased with Cognos' continued integration with the Microsoft platform and the work they are doing to deliver .NET based innovation to customers. We believe this solution can provide tremendous benefits to our mutual customers."

ONYX:
"With ReportNet, we will be able to more tightly integrate the Onyx and Cognos product offerings at the user interface, security and database levels," said Ben Kiker, senior vice president and Chief Marketing Officer, Onyx Software. "This integrated approach will create a smarter, simpler solution for our customers that merges world class business intelligence from Cognos with world class CRM from Onyx. We look forward to delivering an even greater level of reporting power to our customers through ReportNet."

PLUMTREE:
"Customers using the Plumtree Corporate Portal can use Cognos' business intelligence solutions, including Cognos ReportNet, within the portal to manage their supply chains more closely than ever," said Joe McVeigh, director of business development at Plumtree. "Together, Cognos and Plumtree can help companies outflank their competitors on the Web, coordinating the activities of employees, partners, and customers to speed products to market."

SANE SOLUTIONS:
"We are pleased to be supporting the launch of Cognos ReportNet, which is fully integrated within the entire breadth of the Cognos Enterprise BI solution, including scorecards, dashboards, event detection and alerting, and data integration," said Jim Rose, CEO of Sane Solutions. "More and more business users, at every level within the organization, want to make queries into their Web site visitors' clickstream information in order to obtain intelligence for sound decision making. Using our two best-of-breed solutions, business users can help themselves to valuable insight into their Internet business channel by analyzing Web site metrics and combining their online business analysis with offline business metrics for business intelligence that extends across all channels."

TERADATA, A DIVISION OF NCR CORPORATION:
"Cognos ReportNet leverages the power of the Teradata warehouse to provide our customers with a scalable enterprise reporting solution," said Mark Howell, vice president, Global Alliances, Teradata. "With this launch, Cognos deliver a comprehensive reporting solution to address the diverse requirements of today's multi-national corporations."