Autonomy and Cognos Partner to Converge Results of Unstructured Information and Structured Data for Business Intelligence

– In-depth integration provides BI users with instant visibility of trends using Autonomy's technology and Cognos Go! Search Service –

Burlington, Mass. and San Francisco, Calif. - May 15, 2006 — Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, and Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced they have established a partnership and have developed in-depth integration that converges results of unstructured information with structured data for business intelligence.

Cognos enterprise customers collect unstructured information today such as customer feedback, complaints, and interviews through phone conversations, e-mails, word documents, and other sources that sit outside the scope of traditional databases. The integration of Autonomy and Cognos 8 BI provides instant high-level visibility, insight and analysis of an organization’s business critical data. With Cognos Go!, enterprise users can now use concept-based search to quickly access the most relevant enterprise information. By detecting ‘hot topics’ in an organization’s information assets and alerting users to new areas of information, informed business decisions can be made quickly and accurately.

“Customers have told us for four years that integrating all of their scattered information is one of their top three problems,” said Sue Feldman, Research Vice President, IDC. “It is impossible to fully understand a business without pulling both data and content together in a single application. The integration between Cognos and Autonomy is helping a global medical device company to quickly identify product issues resulting from real-time analysis of customer complaints. This type of application represents the future of unstructured information’s role in business intelligence systems.”

“We’ve seen real world examples driving the need for this deeper integration of structured and unstructured information,” said Patrick O’Leary, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Cognos. “With the help of Autonomy and its unique automatic clustering capabilities, our customers will have instant high-level visibility into trends affecting their businesses from new sources of information inside and outside of the enterprise.”

“Autonomy and Cognos share many common global enterprises and government agencies as customers today,” said Stouffer Egan, Chief Executive Officer, Autonomy Inc. “This integration opens new markets for both Autonomy and Cognos. All of a sudden, the ‘meaning’ of thousands of customer communications that might otherwise sit in a database are understood and become actionable in the business intelligence software.”

About Autonomy:
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise. Autonomy's technology powers applications dependent upon unstructured information including call center, customer relationship management, knowledge management, enterprise portals, enterprise resource planning, online publishing and security applications.

Autonomy's customer base comprises more than 16,000 global companies and organizations including, among others, BAE Systems, Ford, Ericsson, Shell, Nestle, AOL, BBC, Reuters, Hutchison 3G, Royal Sun Alliance, Sun Microsystems, Philips, Boeing, Schneider Electric, Coca Cola, GlaxoSmithKline, Citigroup, ABN AMRO, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, the New York Stock Exchange, Daimler Chrysler, Kraft Foods, Lloyds TSB, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy. Strategic reseller and OEM partners include leading companies such as BEA, Symantec, Filenet, Interwoven, Lotus, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Veritas, Vignette, and Sybase. The company has offices worldwide.

The Autonomy Group includes: Aungate, a leader in technology for Real-Time Enterprise Governance; Virage, a leading supplier and visionary in Rich Media Management technology; etalk, a leading provider of enterprise-class contact center products, Cardiff, a leader in content capture and business process management solutions, and Ultraseek, a leading provider of business search engine.

About Cognos:
Cognos, the 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 3,000worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.