The Defense Travel System Implements Cognos Solution for Performance Management

— Selects Cognos ReportNet (TM) and Cognos PowerPlay® to track travel and logistics metrics, improve reporting processes, and perform in-depth analysis on personnel and administrative data —

BURLINGTON, MA, March 8, 2005 — When Northrop Grumman Corporation needed a powerful tool for data management and reporting, they turned to Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM). With Cognos ReportNet(TM) and Cognos PowerPlay®, Northrop Grumman has the powerful data sorting and reporting tools necessary to analyze and report on system performance, operational metrics, traffic flow, and transaction data related to its software development, fielding, operations, and maintenance efforts. Under contract to the Department of Defense (DoD), Northrop Grumman is building the Defense Travel System (DTS), which when fully deployed will support the travel administration needs of approximately 3.2 million active duty military, reserve, and civilian employees of the DoD. The ease of use and flexibility of the Cognos solution will help Northrop Grumman meet its goal of helping DoD build and field a seamless, paperless, automated travel system that meets the needs of DoD travelers, commanders, and process owners.

"We were very impressed with how quickly we were able to develop the initial multi-dimensional data repository," said Rich Fabbre, Northrop Grumman's program manager for DTS. "Once we started experimenting with the data, we were able to spot trends that we had not been aware of. Using Cognos tools will allow us to build, deploy, and operate a system for DoD, better and faster."

"It has become critical for government organizations and government contractors to rethink their reporting and analysis requirements," said Terence Atkinson, director of public sector solutions, Cognos. "Cognos ReportNet, together with Cognos PowerPlay, provides a powerful and massively scalable reporting and analysis solution that enables organizations to support all of their reporting requirements across the enterprise, via the Web, resulting in improved organizational performance, faster response times, and quicker, more informed decision making processes."

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