Ottawa, Canada and Burlington, MA, December 2, 2003—Webplan Corporation, a leading provider of adaptable Operations Performance Management software, and Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced that Webplan has joined the Cognos Partner Program (CPP) as a Strategic Technology Partner. The alliance enables the two companies to extend the value of their respective offerings by allowing manufacturers to increase profitability, improve customer responsiveness, and improve operational effectiveness, while ensuring alignment with key performance objectives.

"The integration between Cognos and Webplan will deliver significant and measurable business value to manufacturers," said Douglas Colbeth, President and CEO, Webplan. "We are pleased to join forces with the world leader in corporate performance management to offer a solution that empowers manufacturers to gain a competitive advantage by reducing costs, shrinking cycle times, and increasing customer service."

Webplan's Operations Performance Management software, Webplan Manufacturing Insight, offers a Live Scorecard that allows manufacturers to make better operational decisions by simulating the outcome of their decisions and aligning them with the metrics that they use to run their business. The two companies will integrate Webplan Manufacturing Insight with Cognos ReportNet and Cognos PowerPlay for enhanced operations visibility and analysis, and with Cognos Metrics Manager to ensure operations decision-making alignment with corporate objectives. The end result is rapid and measurable return on investment for manufacturers.

"Manufacturers need accurate and timely information not only at the financial and corporate level, but also at the operational level," said Rob Rose, Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Business Development, Cognos. "Webplan software delivers a view into operations and the real-time planning capabilities that our manufacturing customers need to make informed strategic decisions and to align day-to-day operational decisions with corporate goals."

ABOUT WEBPLAN:
Webplan provides adaptable Operations Performance Management software that empowers manufacturers to quickly make the right decisions and gain a competitive advantage by reducing costs, shrinking cycle times and increasing customer service. Its flagship product, Webplan Manufacturing Insight, enhances the value of ERP, PLM, WMS/TMS and other enterprise applications by delivering unparalleled visibility and analysis throughout the organization and supply chain. And because Webplan Live Scorecard compares real-time scenario simulations against corporate metrics, mission-critical decisions can be more accurate, objective and consistent. Webplan software can conform to a customer's unique business process, so it is able to deliver rapid and measurable return on investment in a variety of manufacturing models from job shop to make-to-order to high-volume repetitive or lean environments. Webplan is delivering unique insight and solutions for supply chain planning, product lifecycle management, logistics and other operations challenges enabling the world's leading manufacturers to achieve a competitive market advantage. For more information about Webplan, please visit www.webplan.com.