Cognos voted number one vendor by UK software users

– beats all competition in
Business Software Satisfaction Awards 2007 –

London, UK – October 17, 2007 – Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, has won the BI/Corporate Performance Management Software category at the Business Software Satisfaction Awards 2007, hosted by Sift Media.
Cognos came top in the category, competing against Business Objects, Hyperion, Adaptive Planning and Inca Planning. Its software ranked highest overall, but scored particularly well for ease-of-use, based on the views and opinion of 2,000 software users in the UK.
“Winning in the BI and Corporate Performance Management Software category is testament to Cognos’ success and dedication to customers,” said Graham Walter, VP Cognos, UK, Middle East and Africa. “We’ve been investing in improving usability to enable information to be available to all, and winning this award as voted by users shows that we are heading in the right direction.”

About the Business Software Satisfaction Awards 2007
The Sift Media Business Software Satisfaction Awards were established in 2006 to reward high standards from software application providers serving UK businesses.
http://www.softwaresatisfaction.co.uk/.

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/

For further information about Cognos, please contact:
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www.cognos.com/uk

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