Cognos Go! Search Service Integrates With IBM Enterprise Search Software

– Enables single solution to search across business intelligence and enterprise information, unlocking the value of all an organization’s content assets –

BURLINGTON, Mass., April 19, 2006— Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that Cognos Go! Search Service will support IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition. The combined solution will enable users to discover and analyze information on demand by searching business intelligence information managed by Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and other content stored across the enterprise.

Business intelligence is a critical component of an organization’s knowledge assets, but is typically ignored by most enterprise search solutions. Integrating Cognos Go! with IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition will provide a consolidated view of business intelligence data and all other related content distributed across the organization. The new solution also supports the open source Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) framework for the creation, development and deployment of technologies for discovering the vital knowledge present in unstructured content, the fastest growing source of information today. Cognos Go! will allow reports, analyses, dashboards, metric information, and events to be published and indexed by IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition, the IBM enterprise search platform and the first commercially available software for processing content based on UIMA.

“Combining powerful search capabilities with business intelligence represents an important development in expanding the BI user base from dedicated business analysts to a broader population of knowledge workers,” said Henry Morris, group vice president and general manager at IDC. “Furthermore, this is a significant step towards enabling unified access to structured and unstructured information.”

IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition provides secure search results with sub-second response from enterprise content such as intranets, extranets, corporate public Web sites, relational databases, file systems and content repositories and has extensible capabilities for determining meaning and relevance by leveraging UIMA. Now, anyone within an organization using the IBM enterprise search software will be able to use simple keywords and phrases to also search and find relevant Cognos 8 BI content in the search results. This new capability will provide greater access to enterprise knowledge, helping businesses better manage their growing deluge of information and extract and analyze previously hidden facts and insight to uncover risks, identify new opportunities and drive efficiencies.

“Today’s announcement represents the continued evolution of clients getting more value from the information across the enterprise,” said Jon Prial, vice president, Content Management and Discovery, IBM. “By delivering relevant data enhanced by access to new types of information, Cognos and IBM are delivering solutions to help customers find the right information at the right time, no matter where it resides.”

“We are continuing to deliver innovation with IBM through our Global Strategic Alliance,” said Neal Hill, senior vice president of corporate development at Cognos. “Our joint customers will gain greater value from their enterprise search investments by reaching the data and metrics available through Cognos 8 BI, and have a holistic view of enterprise performance to make better business decisions.”

Cognos Go! Search Service, available in May, works with Cognos 8 BI, 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.

About Cognos:
Cognos, a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.

Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions -- How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.

Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos 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.