Nebraska Medical Center Selects Cognos for Performance Management

– Cognos reporting and analysis, scorecarding and planning capabilities provide leading healthcare provider with integrated decision-making platform –

BURLINGTON, MA , January 18, 2006 - Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced that The Nebraska Medical Center has selected the Cognos performance management solution for a Balanced Scorecard project that consolidates more than five years of patient care and financial history with forward-looking performance data into a single, integrated system.

With a history dating back to 1869, The Nebraska Medical Center is the teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska's health sciences programs. Representing 950 physicians, the medical center is a respected leader in solid organ transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, oncology, cardiology, neurology and burn care.

Last year, the medical center initiated a top-down Balanced Scorecard project to define its performance measures and focus on operational performance across all departments. To complement and extend this initiative, the medical center looked for a solution that would be able to pull together disparate data sources and establish a sustainable analytic data warehouse to support the scorecard in real-time with the most up-to-date financial and patient information. The ability to integrate plan and forecast data in the data warehouse was also an imperative. Cognos was selected as the medical center's standard following a competitive review. Cognos Platinum partner CBH Consultants is partnering with the medical center and Cognos for the implementation.

"In keeping with the medical center's reputation for innovation, we wanted to consolidate our patient and financial information with an integrated system for performance management," said Mary Jo Brummel, director of Budget and Decision Support, The Nebraska Medical Center. "With Cognos' capabilities, we will be able to easily expand the number of business users who can plan, assess, and score performance against goals, so everyone, including senior executives, can self-serve performance information such as trends in cardiology or the number of hip replacements and the physicians that perform them. Ultimately, the information gleaned is used to take patient care to a new level of excellence."

The Cognos Performance Management Platform integrates the best-in-class scorecarding and dashboarding, planning, analysis, query and reporting, and event management capabilities that organizations and partners need to build performance management solutions for sustainable competitive advantage.

"The Nebraska Medical Center's selection of Cognos as its standard for performance management is illustrative of our continued competitive edge in the CPM market," said Dave Laverty, senior vice-president, Global Marketing, Cognos. "Our performance management solution provides a modern decision-making platform with a clear line of sight to turn data assets into actionable information enabling faster, more informed decisions that positively impact the organization."

Cognos solutions for performance management combine the forward management view of the business (planning, budgeting, and forecasting) with the current and historical view of the business (financial consolidations, scorecarding, reporting, and analysis). These integrated operational and financial views across all relevant time horizons let customers proactively address business challenges for greater operational effectiveness.

Cognos' industry-leading solutions have helped numerous healthcare organizations worldwide cut costs, increase operational efficiencies, and comply with government regulations. In addition to The Nebraska Medical Center, Cognos can be found in such leading healthcare organizations as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, South Tyneside Health Care NHS Trust (UK), and Trillium Health Centre (Canada). For more information, please visit http://www.cognos.com/solutions/industry/pharmaceuticals-life-sciences/index.html

About The Nebraska Medical Center
The Nebraska Medical Center was formed in 1997 with the merger of Clarkson Hospital, Nebraska's first hospital, and University Hospital, the teaching hospital for the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). The Nebraska Medical Center is known for excellence, innovation and quality patient care. This 689 bed, not-for-profit hospital has an international reputation for providing solid organ and bone marrow transplantation services and is well known nationally and regionally for its oncology, neurology and cardiology programs. Visit: www.nebraskamed.com.

About CBH
CBH delivers Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions that give companies the power to make critical business decisions more efficiently, with greater confidence, at every level. Many Fortune 1000 and Mid-market companies throughout North America are running faster, smarter and more effectively with the help of CBH. Headquartered in Irvine CA, with offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle and Dallas, CBH designs solutions for CPM by utilizing financial planning, metrics management, business intelligence, content collaboration and management, and critical event workflow management technologies.

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 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.