Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Standardizes on Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for Enterprise Reporting And Analysis

– Leading independent research hospital taps Cognos' single, proven BI product to enable greater reporting and analysis from its pioneering paperless medical records system –

BURLINGTON, MA FEBRUARY 14, 2006- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced that Evanston Northwestern Healthcare is standardizing on Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) to drive deeper and more insightful organization-wide reporting and performance analysis.

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) is one of the top multi-specialty, independent research hospitals in the United States, as well as a recognized leader in the use of IT to improve the safety and quality of patient care. ENH recently implemented its Electronic Medical Record System, the nation’s first completely paperless medical record system. Although the system has enabled faster access to consolidated medical information, company officials wanted to drive greater value out of this data, particularly to help address corporate growth and streamline operations.

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare specifically chose Cognos 8 BI because it delivers the complete range of business intelligence capabilities on a single, proven architecture. Using Cognos 8 BI, management and key users will be able to easily access integrated data from the Electronic Medical Record System and create up-to-date reports and analysis. This will help pave the way for effective ‘what-if’ analysis, enabling ENH to model multiple scenarios, compare results based on key business drivers, and improve both corporate-wide and departmental decision-making.

“We needed a reporting and analysis solution that would give our users an easy-to-use, self-service solution to get to the information they need to run their business or clinical units more effectively and ultimately make more informed decisions,” said Steven Smith, chief technology officer at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. “Cognos gives us an understandable, single platform that meets the demands of both our IS and business stakeholder communities. We view our use of Cognos 8 BI as an important step in maintaining our leadership role in healthcare and healthcare informatics.”

Cognos 8 BI is a groundbreaking product that provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with a consistent, accurate view of information to better manage performance. As a single product that easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources, Cognos 8 BI is a robust technology foundation for BI standardization and performance management.

“Evanston Northwestern Healthcare is well-known throughout the industry as an innovator, willing to take the bold steps required to deliver a healthcare system that puts quality patient care at the very top of the priority list,” said Bill Stevens, senior director of life sciences solutions for Cognos. “To be selected as the business intelligence solution of choice for ENH’s extended staff of physicians and administrators is indicative of the compelling value and leadership Cognos 8 BI has to offer healthcare organizations of all sizes, particularly in helping optimize resource use and service delivery."

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

ABOUT EVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE:
Located in Chicago’s northern suburbs, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) is an integrated healthcare system that includes Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park Hospitals, ENH Medical Group (comprising 68 medical offices and facilities), ENH Home Services, ENH Research Institute and ENH Foundation.

Through its affiliation with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, ENH supports extensive medical education and research programs. ENH is in the top nine percent of all institutions that receive funding from the National Institutes of Health, and ranks 12th in the nation among multi-specialty independent research hospitals.

ENH is also recognized as a leader for implementing technology and improving processes to advance the safety and quality of patient care. Hospitals and Health Networks magazine recently named ENH one of the “Most Wired” healthcare organizations in the nation. For more information on Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, visit http://www.enh.org.

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.