BURLINGTON, MA, October 26, 2004—Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced that Cognos ReportNetT, its Web-based enterprise query and reporting environment, now powers new reporting and query capabilities in Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) 6.1, which was announced today. Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) is the global leader in information security.

Symantec ESM 6.1 is the first Symantec enterprise solution to ship with enterprise-class reporting. The new enterprise-class reporting framework , powered by Cognos ReportNet, delivers unparalleled access to security audit findings, meeting the information needs of everyone - from the executive to the security administrator. Organizations can also create a wide variety of ad-hoc reports or produce advanced reports using an optional, advanced reporting-authoring tool. Reports can be automatically scheduled and delivered via email or accessed through a new Web portal Symantec Enterprise Security Manager provides more than 75 predefined reports showing compliance state and trends, specific violations, and configuration changes on host systems. In addition, Cognos ReportNet will power several other Symantec enterprise products.

The Cognos ReportNet solution draws upon Cognos' 35 years of delivering reporting and query leadership solutions to customers, delivering the next evolution of reporting technologies. Cognos ReportNet is the centerpiece of the Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence Series, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event detection and alerting, and data integration.

"Symantec is pleased to partner with Cognos, which allows us to integrate enterprise-class reporting into our information security solutions," said Rowan Trollope, vice president, security management at Symantec. "By delivering these prepackaged reporting capabilities, the partnership brings added value to Symantec ESM while lowering the total cost of ownership for our customers."

"Adopted by partners and end-users worldwide, Cognos ReportNet is now the new standard for enterprise reporting," said Ted Jandl, Cognos vice president of worldwide OEM partners. "With the embedded integration of Cognos ReportNet, Symantec is giving its customers sophisticated, ad-hoc reporting and data analysis capabilities to manage valuable information in the security and administration space for improved decision-making. Cognos looks forward to the Symantec OEM relationship becoming a shining example of delivering true value in the most demanding of Global 3500 environments."

About Symantec
Symantec is the global leader in information security providing a broad range of software, appliances and services designed to help individuals, small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises secure and manage their IT infrastructure. Symantec's Norton brand of products is the worldwide leader in consumer security and problem-solving solutions. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance.

Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage - Corporate Performance Management (CPM) - achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence.

Cognos serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.