BURLINGTON, MA, July 13, 2004 — Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM), has been cited as the market leader through every phase of the CPM lifecycle positions in a report issued by the Butler Group, a leading European analyst firm.

The report reviewed 10 vendors on a broad range of factors including product functionality, data and information management, adaptive planning, performance monitoring and reporting, deployment and overall CPM strategy. Cognos was consistently positioned as "outperform" in early adopter (2003-2005), market adoption (2006-2008) and market maturity (2009 - on).

"What is compelling about the Cognos approach to CPM is that the company has recognized at a very early stage that there is no such thing as a standard CPM solution," said Ian Charlesworth, Senior Research Analyst at Butler Group. "CPM, as delivered by Cognos, is tailored to fit the individual requirements of each organization."

The integration of the Cognos CPM solution is cited as a key differentiator from other vendors in the market. According to the report, Cognos' integrated set of products have the capability of supporting the needs of a wide range of both public and private organizations and best support the three core elements of CPM - planning, monitoring, and reporting. Cognos' ability to address a number of compliance and disclosure issues, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, along with its key relationships with systems integrators, are also highlighted in the report. In Butler Group's opinion, the overall strength of the Cognos CPM solution comes from its ability to provide the means to understand business performance, and thereby deliver business-specific intelligence.

Cognos continues to expand its leadership position in BI on the strength of its Cognos Enterprise BI Series, the industry's most comprehensive business intelligence solution, and delivering on its CPM vision. The Cognos EBI Series offers customers rich data visualization and dashboards, managed reporting, powerful analysis, advanced ad hoc query, actionable event-driven BI, and data integration. Combining the comprehensive business performance of the EBI series with the Cognos Enterprise Planning Series, its industry-leading solution for planning and budgeting, and Cognos Metrics Manager, the most robust and flexible enterprise scorecarding solution, distinguishes Cognos as the only company to deliver a complete and integrated solution for CPM.

"The Butler Group report further validates what we've known for awhile," said Rob Ashe, Cognos CEO. "Cognos is the market leader in CPM because we have a clear vision, an integrated product set that we can deliver right now, and we have the best interests of customers in mind. Our mission is to make our customers the best decision-makers in the world."

Read more details on the Butler Group report