BURLINGTON, MA, January 21, 2004—Zarlink (NYSE/TSX:ZL), a global leader in semiconductor solutions for voice, enterprise, broadband and wireless communications, uses Cognos Enterprise BI Series to give its global employees a single, consistent view of the organization's corporate performance via graphical scorecards. A long-time customer of Cognos (Nasdaq:COGN; TSX:CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance management, Zarlink uses Cognos EBI Series in conjunction with SAP systems across its global research and development, product marketing, sales, operations and finance organizations.

"With Cognos scorecarding we are able to efficiently create tailor-made information for specific individuals and groups, and push that information out to stakeholders with a minimum of IT intervention," said Bill O'Connor, CIO, Zarlink Semiconductor. "Cognos BI Series has helped us provide our key decision-makers with unprecedented visibility into the performance of the business." Zarlink CIO Bill O'Connor will be a featured presenter at a Cognos Web seminar being held 11:00 a.m. EST, Thursday, January 22nd in Ottawa. To register visit http://new.managingautomation.com/biwebcast?cmp=LEC-cognossitelink

Zarlink is focused on delivering the highest quality semiconductor solutions for communication technologies. That same focus on quality and precision extends to how the company communicates with its own workforce and stakeholders. With staff based around the world, it is critical to ensure that executives and managers have daily information about Zarlink's corporate performance.

Zarlink has deployed Cognos EBI Series scorecarding to create customized dashboards that provide a single, highly graphical view of each decision-maker's area of responsibility. The result is a high degree of understanding of financial performance at the close of each business day. For example, bookings, billings and backlog analysis is shared through interactive scorecards, allowing Zarlink managers to closely track sales performance down to a product line, product family or customer level.

Deployed in a matter of weeks, Cognos EBI Series gives stakeholders daily insight into business trends and issues via web-based access to managed reports and analysis. Cognos NoticeCast, the event detection and notification solution, broadcasts targeted daily, weekly or monthly status reports to groups and individuals.

"Cognos EBI Series continues to deliver enterprise value to a broad cross section of global companies such as Zarlink. As a company focused on delivering communications excellence in their products, we are honored that Zarlink chose Cognos scorecarding to help their decision-makers understand, monitor and drive their global business," said Karen Williams, vice president, EBI product marketing, Cognos.