Cognos Presented the CIPA Award of Excellence for Organizational Transformation

– 13th Annual CIPA Awards Honour Canadian Businesses for Innovative Technology Achievements that Help Increase
Productivity and Competitiveness –

Toronto, and Ottawa, Ontario, November 14, 2005 - The Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) has announced that it has selected Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), as the recipient of the Silver Award of Excellence for Organizational Transformation.

This award recognizes Cognos’ achievement in making significant and ongoing productivity improvements within its Build Engineering operations. The Cognos Build Engineering team delivers production builds and install kits for all Cognos products and components, and designs, develops, tests and implements build automation tools for use by all Cognos R&D teams. The team created a sophisticated software build and configuration environment, in which the same number of employees can perform more than 10 times the number of build tasks per month. This new approach ensures highly effective process monitoring, output reporting, operational monitoring, dependency tracking and developer self-service. As a result, Cognos is able to reallocate its resources to spend more time innovating in other areas such as product creation and delivery.

“Cognos is honoured to be recognized by CIPA for our research and development productivity advancements,” said Mark Dawe, Manager, Build Engineering, Cognos. “This award reflects our company’s ongoing commitment to innovation in all aspects of our business, and the remarkable results we continue to reap as a result of that innovation.”

The CIPA awards program recognizes excellence in innovation, and the ability of Canadian organizations to change, adapt and compete on a global scale. Finalists for the annual awards are selected from entries submitted by enterprises of all sizes and types across Canada.

“Cognos is a bold leader in the Canadian business landscape” said Norm Kirkpatrick, President and CEO of CIPA. “Implementation of these productivity enhancements demonstrates excellent management skills in the strategic use of information technology to improve productivity and service.”

The annual CIPA competition is a showcase for the implementation of best practices. Winners become models for other Canadian organizations on how to adopt new technologies and introduce advanced technologies faster, in order to generate higher productivity, develop innovative products and services and foster increased prosperity for all stakeholders within the organization, the industry and the economy at large.

About the Canadian Information Productivity Awards
CIPA is Canada’s oldest and largest awards program in the field of information technology and the premier showcase for Canadian IT and innovation. It is supported by its Managing Sponsor, CGI Group Inc., and other leading industry sponsors as well as allied technology associations. The mission of the awards is to celebrate visionary organizations that have developed innovative results-based technology solutions. Awards categories are: efficiency and operational improvements, customer care and organizational transformation. Web site: www.cipa.com

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.