CHICAGO, IL & BURLINGTON MA, October 7, 2003—SSA Global, a leading provider of extended enterprise solutions and services, and Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement.

With this agreement, SSA Global enhances its partnership with Cognos, embracing the entire suite of Cognos solutions and delivering on the corporate performance management vision. In addition to the current offering, which includes Cognos Enterprise BI Series 7 and Cognos Analytic Applications, SSA Global will integrate Cognos ReportNet™, Cognos Enterprise Planning Series, and Cognos Metrics Manager into its recently released SSA Corporate Performance Management (CPM) suite.

SSA Global's customers will benefit from having Cognos ReportNet's mission-critical performance, scalability, and multilingual support integrated with their data and analytical solutions, providing amplified insight into the performance of the business. In addition, SSA's CPM solution allows companies to monitor and analyze performance, recalibrate plans, and respond immediately to changing market conditions. SSA Global provides the only prepackaged integration of SSA ERP applications with Cognos solutions, therefore dramatically reducing implementation time.

"The agreement further strengthens our partnership with Cognos and provides our customers with tremendous strategic value," said Cory A. Eaves, vice president of solutions management, SSA Global. "With Cognos, SSA Global offers the most complete corporate performance management solution on the market - helping our clients transform corporate strategy into business solutions."

"Cognos and SSA Global have a shared vision, providing business solutions that help global organizations strategically drive, monitor, and manage their corporate performance quickly and effectively," said Ted Jandl, vice president, strategic partners, Cognos. "With the support of partners like SSA Global, we are excited to offer our joint customers a total corporate performance management solution to meet the requirements demanded by today's enterprise."

ABOUT SSA GLOBAL:
SSA Global™ is a leading provider of extended enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for manufacturing, services, and public organizations worldwide. In addition to core ERP applications, SSA Global offers a full range of integrated extended solutions including corporate performance management, customer relationship management, supply chain management and supplier relationship management. Headquartered in Chicago, SSA Global has 121 worldwide offices serving more than 16,000 customers that represent market-leading companies in over 90 countries. For additional information, visit the SSA Global web site at www.ssaglobal.com. SSA Global™ is the new corporate brand for product lines and subsidiaries of SSA Global Technologies, Inc.