Cognos ReportNet™ Wins 2005 SIIA Codie Award

– Named best business intelligence solution based on ability to deliver enterprise value and rapid return on investment –

BURLINGTON, MA, June 8, 2005— Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced that Cognos ReportNet™ has been awarded the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) 2005 Codie Award for the “Best Business Intelligence or Knowledge Management Solution” category.

“It’s a great honor to be selected by SIIA, an organization universally recognized as having exacting standards for solution excellence,” said Dave Laverty, senior vice president of global marketing, Cognos.  “The largest and most successful companies around the globe continue to embrace Cognos for its industry-leading breadth of functionality, scalability, and ease of use.  Our continuing leadership is a result of our award-winning products like Cognos ReportNet, the strength of our corporate performance management vision, and the efforts of the industry’s best business intelligence research and development team in the world.”

Built on a service-oriented architecture, Cognos ReportNet scales to hundreds of thousands of users and   draws upon Cognos’ reporting and query leadership. It is an integral part of the Cognos Enterprise BI (EBI) Series, which includes flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event management, and data integration.

The Codie Awards program is the only peer recognition program in the software and information industry, providing a unique opportunity for companies to compete for the praise of their competitors.  This year SIIA received over 1,000 nominations – a record-breaker for the Codie Awards, now in its 20 th year.  First round judging was completed by a broad panel consisting of representatives from the industry trade press, mainstream technology writers, and industry experts and analysts.  Second round judging was based on votes from SIIA members.

“The 20th Annual Codie Awards continues SIIA’s tradition of celebrating the best products in the software and information industry,” said Ken Wasch, President of SIIA.  “Being chosen as the winning company from among so many fine nominees is a tremendous achievement.  I congratulate all of the companies.” 

Fore more information about the 2005 Codie Awards Program, including a complete list of award winners visit: http://www.siia.net/codies/2005/winners.asp.

About SIIA:
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education, and intellectual property protection to more than 750 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit http://www.siia.net.

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.