Burlington, MA, Nov. 20, 2003—Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced a strategic partnership with leading services outsourcing firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Due to the global demand for Cognos ReportNet and the mission-critical application of BI, Cognos has augmented its services offerings by joining with TCS.

Fully Cognos-certified, TCS, Asia's largest software and services company is tasked with assisting customers at all stages of solution deployment. TCS will assist customers with the move away from competitive reporting solutions to drive enterprise reporting standardization in Cognos accounts.

"The addition of TCS expands our already extensive global reach to support extended enterprise, worldwide implementations of Cognos ReportNet and Cognos Series 7. TCS is focused on delivering dramatically low total cost of ownership for Cognos customers through service excellence and fast time to result for our customers," said Dave Achtemichuk, vice president, Worldwide Customer Services, Cognos, Inc.

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 within the Cognos Enterprise BI solution, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event detection and alerting, and data integration.

"TCS and Cognos share the vision for making business intelligence a mainstream and pervasive technology, and we are very proud to be a charter member of the Cognos Partner Program," said Dr. Santosh Mohanty, Global Head for Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management Program, Tata Consultancy Services. Partnering with Cognos and leveraging the new program, we are allowing companies to organize and analyze their complex and enormous volume of data most effectively and find themselves at a tremendous competitive advantage."

ABOUT TCS
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a division of Tata Sons Limited, is one of the world's leading global Consulting, IT solutions and services enterprise. TCS employs over 24,000 consultants at over 100 branches across 55 countries, and services more than 1,000 global clients including 8 of the US Fortune 10 companies - General Motors, Ford, General Electric, Citigroup, ChevronTexaco, IBM, AIG and Verizon Communications. TCS has 15 Development Centers assessed at SEI-CMM Level 5 - the highest number in the world. The company's website can be found at www.tcs.com.