Mold-Masters Selects Cognos Reportnet™ to Extend Value of Investments in SAP® Solutions

– Cognos provides rich, user-friendly query
and reporting environment –

BOSTON, MA— May 17, 2005 - Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced at SAPPHIRE® ’05 that Mold-Masters Limited, the global leader in hot runner technology, has selected Cognos ReportNet™ to extend the value of its investment in SAP® solutions. By providing a rich, user-friendly query and reporting environment, Mold-Masters gains business value by creating and leveraging reports from multiple data sources, including SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), part of the SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI) solution, a core component of the SAP NetWeaver™ platform.

At Mold-Masters, the SAP solution in use is a key strategic data source, augmented by other niche corporate systems. With Cognos ReportNet, Mold Masters can access critical information from data housed in the SAP solution as well as in non-SAP solutions, providing the company with a single view of its business performance.

“We looked at a number of competitive solutions and discovered through a proof of concept that Cognos ReportNet has seamless integration and superior time to deployment with SAP BW,” said Val Swift, IT manager, Mold-Masters. “By taking advantage of its next-generation Web Services architecture and effortless integration with SAP BW, Cognos ReportNet will allow us to streamline the entire reporting infrastructure at Mold-Masters.”

Cognos allows customers such as Mold-Masters to further leverage their software solutions from SAP and other vendors. Cognos ReportNet helps 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 ReportNet was designed from the ground up to complement and leverage the full business value of SAP NetWeaver, and was one of the first solutions to achieve Powered by SAP NetWeaver status,” said Karen Williams, vice president of product marketing, Cognos. “Our broad solution set and continued integration with SAP NetWeaver provides customers like Mold-Masters with superior universal analysis and reporting capabilities across the enterprise.”

Cognos will be exhibiting at SAPPHIRE® ’05 (booths # 1263 and #1604 B), May 17 – 19, in Boston. Cognos will showcase Cognos ReportNet, a scalable and open Web-based reporting solution to deploy business intelligence across the enterprise, completely leveraging your investment in SAP Business Information Warehouse and non-SAP applications.

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

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About Cognos:

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.