Cognos 8 BI Gains Support from Industry Technology Leaders

– Web services-based, extended open data access solution first to provide complete BI functionality on a single product and architecture; helps facilitate enterprise BI standardization –

New York, September 14, 2005 - Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced widespread vendor support for Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. Cognos 8 BI is t he industry’s first single BI product to deliver the complete range of BI functionality – including comparative analysis, dimensional reporting, active dashboards and scorecards – on a proven single architecture. See today’s related release at http://www.cognos.com/news/releases/2005/0914_3.html .

Cognos 8 BI’s services-oriented architecture (SOA) enables organizations to easily integrate BI capabilities into existing IT assets and infrastructures. Its extended open data access capabilities, including a unique single query engine and single metadata layer, allow t he complete range of BI functionality to be performed against any organizational data, whether relational or OLAP. This access to all data sources helps eliminate information silos that can inhibit decision-making, providing customers with a single, trusted place for all relevant data and a complete and consistent view of any business issue or driver.

“With this launch, Cognos has once again come to market with a business intelligence solution that will help enterprises of all sizes take their corporate performance to the next level,” said Patrick O’Leary, vice president of strategic alliances at Cognos. “With the valuable support of our partners, Cognos is excited to offer our joint customers one complete business intelligence solution available on a proven Web services architecture and data agnostic, enabling them to more quickly fulfill their enterprise BI standardization agendas.”

Several of the company’s premier technology alliances expressed their support for Cognos’ next-generation BI solution, including:

HP:
“HP is delighted to support Cognos 8 Business Intelligence,” said Bruno Castejon, director of business intelligence solution alliances, technology solutions group, at HP. “HP and Cognos will deliver to customers industry-leading solutions with Cognos 8 BI and HP infrastructure. This will help enterprises take advantage of a business and data warehousing infrastructure that can scale to help transform endless amounts of disparate data into a competitive weapon for driving faster decisions, increased revenues, improved customer service and streamlined operations.”

Informatica:
“Cognos 8 BI is a clear example of the synergies that exist between Cognos and Informatica. Cognos’ comprehensive BI architecture and open data strategy closely aligns with Informatica’s powerful set of enterprise data integration capabilities and vision of enabling customers to virtually or physically integrate data seamlessly, and from the same platform,” said John Entenmann, executive vice president at Informatica. “Global organizations can confidently turn to Cognos and Informatica to reduce the overall complexity of building, maintaining and leveraging their data integration implementations while pairing them with a single, unified, end-to-end business intelligence solution with a wide range of reporting and analysis.”

Sun Microsystems:
"Global enterprises demand stringent business intelligence processes to enable better decision making capabilities," said Stephen Borcich, vice president of partner marketing at Sun Microsystems. "With Cognos 8 BI, our joint customers will benefit from a combined solution that delivers a comprehensive range of reporting, analytics and actionable scorecards available on Sun’s Solaris 10, the most advanced operating system on the planet, that can effectively scale to handle the exponential growth of supported users, problem complexity and data volume.”

Sybase, Inc.:
“Cognos and Sybase together offer global organizations a proven framework for extending the value of their data. Through increased visibility into changing business conditions, enterprise decision makers are able to rapidly respond to issues, capitalize on new opportunities and make stronger decisions that improve bottom line performance,” said Charles Doucot, vice president of the global partner program at Sybase, Inc. “Sybase is very pleased to partner with Cognos on the launch of Cognos 8 BI. We look forward to leveraging this next-generation BI platform with Sybase IQ, our award-winning analytics server, to help our joint customers truly realize the benefits of business optimization.”

Teradata (a division of NCR):
"In today's competitive world, enterprises need access to the right information, at the right time, and in the right format. For over ten years, Cognos and Teradata have enjoyed a strong partnership, helping customers in every industry turn transactional data into information that helps drive growth and significant business returns," said Todd Walter, chief technology officer at Teradata, a division of NCR (NYSE: NCR). "With Cognos 8 BI, users now have direct access to relational data sources, which enables continuous analysis of up-to-the-minute integrated data in a Teradata Active Data Warehouse. This is a substantial benefit to our customers.”

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.