Cognos Reportnet™ Enhances “Powered by SAP Netweaver™” Certified Integration, Continues to Deliver Enterprise Reporting to Customers Worldwide

— Latest SAP® integration certification extends Cognos ReportNet’s existing “Powered by SAP NetWeaver”status —

BURLINGTON, MA, March 23, 2005— Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced the company has completed another round of intensive certifications to enhance its existing “Powered by SAP NetWeaver™” designation for the SAP NetWeaver Release ’04 platform . Selected by global enterprises worldwide, Cognos ReportNet – integration-certified by SAP – delivers rapid and effective global-scale enterprise reporting with the SAP NetWeaver open integration and application platform.

Cognos ReportNet was one of the first enterprise applications to achieve “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” certification. Further enhancing its commitment to SAP® solutions and its partnership with SAP, Cognos successfully upgraded its SAP integration certification to deploy the Cognos Dispatcher Service 1.1 component of Cognos ReportNet on the latest version of the SAP Web Application Server Release 6.40. Last fall, Cognos successfully upgraded its SAP certification of Cognos ReportNet iViews to include integration to SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0. Cognos also has existing SAP certified integration, including “Certified for SAP NetWeaver” for OLAP BAPI.

Cognos ReportNet is powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform, the open integration and application platform that provides an efficient way to integrate all systems running SAP or non-SAP software. SAP NetWeaver unifies integration technologies into a single platform and is pre-integrated with business applications, enabling change and reducing the need for custom integration. The platform is based on industry standards and supports all major technologies such as Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Microsoft .NET, and IBM WebSphere.

“We have worked directly with SAP to deliver a completely open solution that our customers demand,” said Peter Griffiths, senior vice president, products, Cognos. “As we continue investing in support for SAP solutions, our industry-leading products will continue to incorporate SAP best practices. Cognos’ SAP certified integrations provide the ideal method of working within the SAP solution-based environment. This provides greater numbers of users unprecedented access to SAP solution data, as well as the ability to work with and share that information in a way that suits them best.”

Cognos allows customers to fully leverage their software solutions from SAP and other vendors. Cognos ReportNet helps to ensure that business users receive a consistent view of corporate performance information. Users receive this information in a single, easy, browser-based, drag-and-drop interface for simple or sophisticated reports for all levels of users. Cognos continues to actively engage in SAP integration certifications to give IT confidence in the quality of Cognos’ solutions – displaying Cognos’ high level of support for companies’ strategic investments in SAP solutions.

Cognos is a member of the SAP Software Partner program. Today, more than 100 global Cognos consultants and partners are trained on SAP NetWeaver integration to help ensure customers get the highest degree of support and success.

To learn more about Cognos’ integration with SAP BI, visit http://www.cognos.com/sapbwreporting.

ABOUT COGNOS:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software and services 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.

ognos serves more than 23,000 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.