F-Secure Standardizes on Cognos
Business Intelligence

— Antivirus expert selects Cognos ReportNet(TM) to boost
global sales performance —

BURLINGTON, MA & HELSINKI, FINLAND, March 15, 2005 — F-Secure Corporation (OMX: FSC), the fastest growing publicly listed antivirus and intrusion prevention vendor in the world, has implemented an enterprise reporting solution from Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM).

F-Secure required a flexible, easy-to-use solution that integrated with its existing SAP systems to report on global sales performance in a timely manner. Most importantly, it had to offer multilingual support so that reports could be created, read and altered in the seven countries worldwide where the company operates. In choosing Cognos ReportNet^TM, the company has standardized on Cognos and consolidated all its sales reporting requirements with a single solution.

Prior to the roll-out of Cognos ReportNet, managers used a variety of applications including Excel and bespoke forms to track information and produce reports. As a result, they often disagreed over whose reports were the most accurate for senior management to use to make decisions.

F-Secure has been a Cognos customer for five years, and uses the Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) Series in conjunction with SAP systems across its global operations. It uses Cognos DecisionStream to extract data from SAP and Siebel systems, and Cognos® PowerPlay for analysis. By implementing Cognos ReportNet, decision makers around the globe will be able to easily access and report on sales data.

“We have been working together with Cognos for years to build a long-term information strategy and to lay a foundation for driving our performance,” said Taneli Virtanen, CFO at F-Secure Corporation. “Cognos is enabling us to improve our corporate performance because we now have a single version of the truth in our sales operations. Standardizing on Cognos allows us to reduce costs and we’re already saving time on reporting and analysis. Senior management is now able to spend more time on analyzing the numbers, instead of arguing if the numbers are correct.”

Using Cognos, managers and decision-makers at F-Secure can instantly access, analyze and report on the performance of international sales channels, as well as analyze sales data to identify trends and areas for improvement. Cognos ReportNet is Web-based, so the critical business data is available online from any location in real-time, saving significant time in report generation and distribution. F-Secure also plans to use Cognos ReportNet to report on, and improve, the performance of other business areas and departments going forward.

“F-Secure has a strong global presence and needs simple tools to provide accurate management reports on sales performance. Giving everyone the means to access the same data ensures reports are consistent and means future decisions can be made based on up-to-date and accurate information,” said Ad Voogt, senior vice president of European Operations at Cognos. “In standardizing on Cognos, we’re confident F-Secure will experience a number of benefits that have a real impact on the bottom line.”

F-Secure Corporation is the fastest growing company globally in the antivirus and intrusion prevention industry with 50% revenue growth during 2004. F-Secure services and software protect individuals and businesses against computer viruses and other threats coming through the Internet or mobile networks. F-Secure has its headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and offices in USA, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Japan. F-Secure is supported by a global ecosystem of service partners, value added resellers and distributors in over 50 countries.

ABOUT COGNOS
Cognos, the world leader in enterprise corporate performance management, delivers software and services that help 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 data analysis on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through data reduction, analysis, and trend-spotting.

Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise performance management 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.