Cognos Positioned as a Leader in 2006 Business Intelligence Reporting and Analysis Platforms Report

– Research cites Cognos’ strategy, market presence, and strength of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence –

OTTAWA, ON and BURLINGTON, MA, February 8, 2006- Cognos today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. has recognized Cognos as a leader in BI reporting and analysis platforms, according to the new Forrester Wave™: BI Reporting and Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006. Forrester ranked Cognos as a leader based on the company’s strategy, market presence, and current offering, Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.

The comprehensive report found that Cognos 8 BI received top scores among the 10 participating vendor offerings in the categories of product direction, strategy, and market presence. Specifically, Cognos was cited for its clear analytic reporting leadership and enterprise reporting, and being the only vendor to include both capabilities in a single product.

“Cognos 8 Business Intelligence offers a single, strong BI reporting and analysis product for support of analytic and enterprise reporting. The product is strong in all three areas – analytic functionality, application development, and usability – with comprehensive support for unification, internationalization, and open APIs, and strong support for OLAP, query, metadata, dashboards, and scorecards,” writes Keith Gile in The Forrester Wave: BI Reporting and Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006.

“We are proud to be recognized as a leader in both enterprise reporting and analysis platforms by a leading analyst firm,” said Dave Laverty, senior vice president, Global Marketing, Cognos. “Cognos is executing on its vision to provide one single product to meet all BI needs for specific departmental purposes and broader standardization initiatives within large enterprises. With Cognos 8 BI, we are setting new standards in innovation and functionality to help our customers achieve greater insights into business performance.”

The full Forrester Wave: Business Intelligence can be viewed at http://www.cognos.com/news/analyst_reviews.html.

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise groundbreaking capabilities to better manage performance by delivering a consistent, accurate view of all business information. As a complete, flexible product, Cognos 8 BI easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources. Its simplified BI environment improves user adoption, enables better decision-making, and provides a robust foundation for departmental BI and enterprise BI.

Source: The Forrester Wave™: BI Reporting and Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006, by Keith Gile.

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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.