BURLINGTON, MA, September 9, 2003—Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced Syngenta, a world-leading agribusiness, has selected Cognos ReportNet for its enterprise reporting needs.

After an exhaustive evaluation of reporting products from a variety of vendors, Syngenta Research & Technology function chose Cognos ReportNet for its open architecture, complete reporting coverage, and ability to easily author complex reports on scientific research data. As the company's reporting standard, Cognos ReportNet replaces a host of packaged and homegrown reporting systems that were creating an administrative burden on IT.

Cognos ReportNet will provide Syngenta with easy, intuitive authoring of unique reports that include complex chemical structure diagrams, allowing researchers to drive the creation of new crop protection products and new plant varieties.

"Cognos ReportNet's unique ability to create rapid business reports with key scientific data as well as the chemical structure diagrams, made it the clear choice for Syngenta Research & Technology Function. I would recommend others in the chemical industry evaluate Cognos ReportNet as an reporting solution," said Dr. Matthias Ochs, head of research application development, Syngenta Crop Protection. "Based upon our testing, Cognos ReportNet was also a clear leader in terms of time to result, with a preliminary implementation in a test environment taking days versus the weeks projected in competitive offerings."

Cognos ReportNet will be rolled out to more than 800 users in Syngenta's Research & Technology Function globally. With Cognos ReportNet, research scientists and management can create a broad range of business reports drawn from disparate information sources, easy author complex, compound reports and widely distribute that information to stakeholders.

"Leaders like Syngenta are turning to Cognos ReportNet for its superior reporting authoring, open architecture and mission-critical performance. Regardless of the industry or geographic market, Cognos ReportNet can fulfill the complete reporting needs of any enterprise," said Rob Ashe, president and COO.

ABOUT SYNGENTA
Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. The company is a leader in crop protection and ranks third in the high-value commercial seeds market. Sales in 2002 were approximately US $6.2 billion. Syngenta employs some 20,000 people in over 90 countries. Syngenta is listed on the Swiss stock exchange (SYNN) and in London (SYA), New York (SYT) and Stockholm (SYN). Further information is available at www.syngenta.com.