Cognos Enterprise Planning Named by eWEEK as a Finalist in the 5th Annual Excellence Awards Program

BURLINGTON, MA, March 30, 2005— Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry's leading enterprise magazines, has named Cognos Planning 7.2 a finalist in eWEEK's fifth Annual Excellence Awards program, in the analytics and reporting category.

Winners will be honored at a special ceremony on April 26 in Boston, Mass. Analysis of the winning products and services will also be published in a special report in the April 11th edition of eWEEK and at www.eWEEK.com.

Enterprise planning is a core element of Cognos' corporate performance management solution. The Cognos Planning solution combines planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities to provide customers with an integrated operational and financial view of their business so they can proactively address business challenges for greater operational effectiveness across the organization.

"We are honored to be selected as a finalist for this year's eWEEK Excellence Awards. With Cognos Planning, business users can collaborate in real-time on strategies and tactics for future actions in the context of the company's strategic goals and based on a common management view of the business," said Dave Laverty, senior vice-president, Global Marketing, Cognos. "The outcome is more effective resource allocation to proactively address changing market conditions and opportunities, improved decision-making, and accelerated time to results."

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries is a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners - senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives.

"We've seen a lot of impressive entries in the five years that we've been conducting the Excellence Awards program, but this year's entries really illustrate the tremendous effort the industry is making to respond to the demands of enterprise IT professionals," said Eric Lundquist, Editor-in-Chief, eWEEK. "The Excellence Awards judges saw an impressive maturity and sophistication in the entries in critical areas."

Products and services were named finalists in 19 categories. For a full listing of finalists and categories visit: http://www.eWEEK.com/article2/0,1759,1779705,00.asp.

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About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and 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 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 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence and 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.