Cognos and Epsilon announce new OEM agreement for Cognos 8 Business Intelligence


~ Epsilon to offer to embed Cognos 8 Business Intelligence within Epsilon solutions to deliver greater customer insight and drive more effective marketing campaigns ~


LONDON, England - February 5th, 2007 - Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), a provider of business intelligence and performance management solutions, has announced a strategic OEM agreement with Epsilon, a leading provider of multi-channel, data-driven marketing technologies and services.

Epsilon will offer to embed Cognos 8 Business Intelligence’s (BI) reporting and analysis capabilities into its marketing technology solutions, delivering greater visibility and insight into customer information and marketing campaigns. With Cognos 8 BI, Epsilon customers will gain versatile reporting and analysis capabilities of all customer data regardless of source type, from ad hoc to operational, in one intuitive interface that satisfies the needs of all users and roles. This integrated solution will enable marketers to understand and monitor current campaign performance while planning future strategies with confidence.

“Cognos 8 BI will deliver powerful functionality and insights to our customers to improve relevance, strengthen customer relationships, and grow marketing ROI,” said Bryan Kennedy, president of Epsilon’s Strategic Database Services group. “The open, standards-based architecture of Cognos 8 BI makes it easy to integrate with our existing solutions, delivering a seamless experience for our customers. Our relationship with Cognos further underscores our commitment to providing marketers with an integrated environment to optimise their relationships and marketing efforts.”

"With this agreement, Epsilon will be able to offer its customers, nearly a third of the Fortune 2000, easy-to-use reporting capabilities to help drive better decisions that will to grow relationships, response and results," said Ted Jandl, vice president of global OEM partners, Cognos. "We look forward to working with Epsilon to uncover new ways to help improve the marketing technology solutions for its customers worldwide."

About Epsilon
Please visit the website: www.epsilon.com/home.html.

About Cognos, an IBM Company
Cognos, an IBM company, is the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions.

It provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
Cognos was acquired by IBM in January 2008.

For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/data/ and http://www.cognos.com/uk/

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