Ottawa, ON, Nov. 18, 2003—Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced Barloworld Robor, the leading steel tube and pipe manufacturer in Southern Africa, has selected Cognos ReportNetT for its enterprise reporting standard. A long time Cognos customer, Barloworld Robor chose Cognos ReportNet for its scalability, easy to use Web-based query and reporting, and enhanced functionality.

"Cognos ReportNet offers us a solution that will create a true self-serve Web-based reporting environment for our business decision-makers," said Julian Tuffrey, Barloworld Robor. "Cognos ReportNet was a natural choice -- seeing this product in action is truly believing. With Cognos ReportNet we expect to be able to create complex business reports in a matter of minutes, putting critical information in the hands of users."

Partnering with respected technology consultant Sunstone Business Solutions, Cognos and Barloworld Robor teams are driving to the rapid deployment of Cognos ReportNet across the Barloworld Robor enterprise. Pulling key performance information from Microsoft and Oracle systems, Cognos ReportNet will be used by top business decision-makers in Barloworld Robor, allowing them to standardize and consolidate all enterprise reporting requirements on a single solution.

Designed to scale to 100s of 1,000s of users, Cognos ReportNet solution draws upon Cognos reporting and query leadership, delivering a revolution in reporting. Cognos ReportNet is fully integrated with the Cognos Enterprise BI solution, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event detection and alerting, and data integration.

"Global companies like Barloworld Robor are benefiting from unprecedented functionality of Cognos ReportNet to drive an enterprise standard for reporting in their organization. Cognos ReportNet delivers the promise of CPM, bringing the industry's first, fully integrated, all-in-one-reporting standard across multinational organizations," said Paul Hoy, director, manufacturing solutions, Cognos Inc.

ABOUT BARLOWORLD ROBOR
A wholly owned subsidiary of Barloworld Limited. Barloworld Robor's core business revolves around tube and pipe. It specializes in manufacturing, longitudinal welded carbon and stainless steel tubular products. Its leading edge manufacturing facility at Robor Tube utilizes the latest production and paint coating technology. The world class distribution centre ensures the best customer service through state-of-the-art information and logistics systems supported by its marketing aim of being the preferred supplier of tube and pipe. For more information, visit the Barloworld Robor web site at http://www.robor.co.za.