Cognos Named to InformationWeek 500


– Recognized for innovation and emerging technology with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and Cognos Go! Search Service –

BURLINGTON, Mass., Sept. 12, 2006—Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced it has been named to the InformationWeek 500, a list that recognizes achievements of corporate America's largest and most innovative users of information technology. The top 2006 InformationWeek 500 companies were announced at a gala awards ceremony held during the InformationWeek 500 Conference in Rancho Mirage, Calif. from Sept. 10-13, 2006.

For the past 18 years, InformationWeek has identified and honored the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual listing. The list is unique among corporate rankings because it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.

InformationWeek recognized Cognos’ innovation with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) and Cognos Go! Search Service. Cognos 8 BI is the first BI solution to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities -- reporting, analysis, scorecarding dashboards, business event management, and data integration -- on a single, Web services-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), rather than competing companies that offer an integrated set of products on separate architectures. Cognos extended its innovation leadership by delivering Cognos Go! Search Service to help users instantly find relevant, strategic enterprise information available through Cognos 8 BI. Now more users, including those not working with BI on a day-to-day basis, can use Cognos Go! to find BI answers to their business questions using simple keyword search.

“With Cognos 8 BI, we sought to change the BI industry and completely re-architected our entire BI portfolio to offer a streamlined approach to BI deployment,” said Dave Laverty, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Cognos. “Cognos Go! builds on Cognos 8 BI by using a familiar search paradigm to help deliver BI to a broader set of users. The InformationWeek 500 listing affirms our decision four years ago to rebuild our offering and provide a foundation for the most innovative and successful BI deployments to help drive organizational performance.”

“The InformationWeek 500 honors today’s leading companies who set the benchmark for business technology strategies and projects,” said InformationWeek publishing director, Fritz Nelson. “The companies on our list are some of the most innovative users of technology.”

Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found at www.informationweek.com/iw500/.

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.

About InformationWeek:
InformationWeek sets the agenda for business technology executives, covering the full range of information access points IT decision-makers use today. A trusted, authoritative source and information filter, InformationWeek helps community members understand and focus on what’s important up-to-the-minute – in print, online, through independent research and at live, peer-to-peer events. Through its cross-media platform, InformationWeek delivers content to complement the print publication to its community of business technology leaders when and how they want it, 24/7. The InformationWeek community includes an audience of 2.5 million CIOs, IT executives and business managers who cut across industries, job titles, company sizes and global borders.

InformationWeek is consistently recognized for its commitment to excellence and thought leadership by the IT community, receiving many of the industry's top media accolades, including several awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE), top spots in BtoB Magazine's Media Power 50 and Circulation Excellence Awards from Circulation Management Magazine.

About CMP Technology:
CMP Technology is a marketing solutions company serving the technology, healthcare and lifestyles industries. Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP Technology has earned the confidence of more professionals and enthusiasts in these fields than any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in each of these industries in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Technology is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion.

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Note to Editors:
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