Cognos Honors Global Partners for Excellence In Performance Management

– World’s leading organizations recognized for excelling at innovation, influence, and thought-leadership –

LAS VEGAS, Cognos Partner Summit 2006, June 26, 2006— At the Cognos Partner Summit 2006, Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced the winners of its 2006 Global Partner Awards. Cognos is honoring close to a hundred Cognos partners across North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and EMEA that have excelled at innovation, influence, and thought-leadership, and share a vision and passion for corporate performance management. The winners were announced at the Partner Awards ceremony held this week at the Cognos Partner Summit 2006, Cognos’ annual global partner forum.

“For years, Cognos has built a broad, global ecosystem of successful partnerships that helps our customers drive performance management through a blend of technology, product, and services offerings that best suits their needs,” said Neal Hill, senior vice president, Global Development, Cognos. “Building on our recent innovations such as Cognos 8 BI, performance applications, and industry blueprints, our partners have achieved new successes and demonstrated even greater depth of industry expertise. We are proud to honor these companies for their incredible contributions to helping our customers gain greater visibility and insight into their organizations and drive performance management to the next level.”

Highlighted categories and winners of the Global Partner Awards include:

Platinum Awards: Honors Top Resellers and Top OEM Partners for their roles in Cognos’ ongoing channel sales success worldwide. Partners are recognized for their success with the Cognos solution based on understanding the technology, sales performance, and depth of value-add integration.

This year’s Top Resellers achieving the Platinum Award are: Answerthink, Aviana Global, BI Inform, Business & Decision, CBH Consultants, CD Group, DataClarity, Dimo Gestion, eCapital Advisors, Genware Computer Systems, HaPeC, Hitachi/Navigator, Inca Software, Impact Information Management, ISA Consulting, JCB Partners, John Daniel Associates, Kinetek Consulting, Lantares, Libi Software Technology, Market Street Solutions, Merador, Momentum Consulting, Newcomp Solutions, Niteo Partners, novem, Palladium Group, QueBIT Solutions, Redwood Analytics, Revere Group, Romulus Business Intelligence, Scicom Computer Systems, Simpson Associates, Sky Solutions, Software by Design, STaS, Teradata, Unilog, Xwave Solutions, and 2B Consulting.

This year’s Top OEMs achieving the Platinum Award are: Avaya, Convergys, Datastream, Deltek, GE Healthcare IT, Infor, Information Technology, Inc. (ITI), Macrovision, Manugistics, Medstat, Onyx Software, Solucient, SSA Global, Symantec, Tektronix, Ultimate Software, Witness Systems, and Workbrain.

Global Systems Integrator of the Year: Recognizes the leading Cognos partner that provides expertise in strategy, design, implementation, and customization services related to Cognos performance management solutions. This year’s winner is BearingPoint.

Global Technology Alliance Partner of the Year: Honors the outstanding Cognos alliance partner who has set the standard for business excellence, market-leading technology, ingenuity, and customer satisfaction related to Cognos performance management solutions. The Cognos Alliance Partner of the Year is IBM.

Technology Partner of the Year: Recognizes the leading Cognos partner that provides products, services, and technology expertise that help our customers improve and direct corporate performance. The Cognos Technology Partner of the Year is Vaultus Mobile Technologies.

Resellers of the Year: Recognizes partners worldwide that exceed expectations by contributing to market growth, driving customer satisfaction, and delivering unsurpassed expertise and services. The Cognos Resellers of the Year are: North America - CBH Consultants; North America - ISA Consulting; United Kingdom - Inca Software; Mexico - DSS de México, S.A. de C.V.; Australia - Pelion Group Pty Ltd; and Asia-Pac - Beijing Super-info Science & Trade Co., Ltd.

Best OEM Embedded Solution: Recognizes the OEM partner delivering the strongest embedded BI solution leveraging Cognos technology within their core software application. The Cognos Best OEM Embedded Solution winner is Witness Systems.

Best OEM Hosted Solution: Recognizes the OEM partner delivering the most compelling hosted application leveraging Cognos technology. The award for Best OEM Hosted Solution goes to Datastream.

Best Packaged Analytics Solution: Recognizes the OEM partner delivering the strongest Packaged Analytics solution leveraging Cognos technology. The Best OEM Packaged Analytics Solution winner is SSA Global.

Rising Star Award: Honors Cognos partners that are breaking new ground in solutions, business model, or attainment of market share and/or revenue. This year’s winners are: BSG Systems Group, Eagel Ibermatica, HaPeC, Merador, Softek, Synergy, Tahola, and 2B Consulting.

Solution Innovation Award: Acknowledges the year’s most innovative use of Cognos technology by partners. This year’s winners are: BI Hosting, ISA Consulting, RCI, RSM Consult, and Simpson Associates.

Best Industry Solutions: Distinguishes outstanding solutions tailored for the specific business challenges of the commercial or public sectors. This year’s winners are: Financial Services - Acorn Systems and Information Technology, Inc. (ITI); Life Sciences - 3C Pharma; Manufacturing - SSA Global (now Infor); Public Sector - Grant Thornton; Retail – JCB Partners; UK Solution - Romulus Business Intelligence; and Latin America Solution – Inys.

Services Partner of the Year: Recognizes Cognos partners that have this year’s most outstanding implementation – demonstrated by a quick time-to-success, a well-managed project, and customer satisfaction. This year’s winners are: IBM and JCB Partners.

Best Implementation of the Year: Recognizes the year’s most outstanding implementation demonstrated by a quick time-to-success, a well-managed project, and customer satisfaction. This year’s winners are: BI Inform, DSS de México, S.A. de C.V., Net Partners, and Newcomp Solutions.

Additional Australian/Asia-Pacific Awards: Australia Enterprise Planning Partner of the Year - e.fab solutions Pty Ltd; Australia BI Partner of the Year - Bistech Pty Ltd.; Australia Consulting Partner of the Year - Capiotech Pty Ltd; Most Improved Partner North Asia - FAST Technologies, Inc.; Most Improved Partner South Asia - Nexus Technologies, Inc.; and Japan Partner Excellence Awards - K.K. Ashisuto, FUJITSU Ltd., NEC Corporation, and Hitachi East Japan Solutions, Ltd.

For more information about the Cognos Partner Program and a complete list of award winners, please visit www.cognos.com/partners/index.html.

At the Cognos Partner Summit 2006, more than 500 attendees met to discuss best practices, share selling solutions, and network with their peers to learn how to increase selling effectiveness. For more information about Cognos’ channel partners or the Cognos Partner Program, visit http://www.cognos.com/partners/index.html.

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