- New trusted and secure server to power more informed business decisions - ANAHEIM, Calif., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At IBM Information On Demand 2006, Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), a world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced support for the new IBM Information Server. Building on their global strategic alliance, Cognos and IBM are ensuring that joint customers will be able to use Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) and the IBM Information Server to access strategic information across complex and heterogeneous environments to make more informed and effective business decisions. Cognos 8 BI is a groundbreaking product that provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with a consistent, accurate view of information to better manage performance. As a single product that easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources, Cognos 8 BI is a robust technology foundation for BI standardization and performance management. By extending the reach of Cognos 8 BI to include IBM Information Server, companies can develop a unified view of the business. This will enable better decisions by helping companies understand existing data sources and cleanse, correct, and standardize information to be used throughout the enterprise. As a result, organizations will benefit from greater productivity, trusted information, security, and a unified foundation for enterprise information to better improve business intelligence and performance management initiatives. "Customers are challenged with delivering a growing population of users with meaningful access to an exploding volume of data," said Pete Fiore, vice president, IBM Information Integration Solutions. "With IBM Information Server, customers will achieve high levels of performance and availability to authoritative enterprise information to power BI initiatives. By continuing to work closely with Cognos, we are enabling our customers to add unmatched BI on top of integrated information so they can drive innovation, increase operational efficiency, and lower IT risk." "With this announcement, Cognos is extending its commitment to IBM and continuing to deliver BI capabilities for any data source," said Dave Laverty, chief marketing officer and senior vice president, Cognos. "IBM Information Server fits well with the Web services-based, SOA of Cognos 8 BI, and will support critical business initiatives such as BI and performance management. Together, IBM and Cognos are helping organizations drive more value out of their information to power faster, more effective business decisions." Cognos is a diamond sponsor of IBM Information On Demand 2006 this week in Anaheim, Calif., exhibiting at Booth D501. For more information on Cognos and IBM joint solutions, visit http://www.cognos.com/solutions/data/ibm/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/. Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Media Contacts: Amy Shanler Cognos, Inc., 781-313-2464 Jolene Bonina Lois Paul & Partners, LLC, 781-782-5849 Investor Relations: John Lawlor Cognos, Inc., 613-738-3503 DATASOURCE: Cognos CONTACT: Media: Amy Shanler of Cognos, Inc., +1-781-313-2464, ; or Jolene Bonina of Lois Paul & Partners, LLC, +1-781-782-5849, ; or Investor Relations: John Lawlor of Cognos, Inc., +1-613-738-3503, Web site: http://www.cognos.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/107867.html

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