Cognos in Leader Quadrant Position in Business Intelligence

- Latest Magic Quadrant Report recognizes Cognos based on completeness of vision and ability to execute -

BURLINGTON, Mass., April 22, 2004 -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced it is positioned in the leaders quadrant of Gartner's Enterprise Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant. According to Gartner, Inc., leaders are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

Cognos continues to expand its leadership position in BI on the strength of its Cognos Enterprise BI Series, the industry's most comprehensive business intelligence solution, and delivering on its vision of corporate performance management (CPM). Cognos ReportNet, which offers a complete, pure Web-based enterprise query and reporting environment, is fully integrated within the Cognos EBI Series, which offers customers rich multi-dimensional analysis and visualization, a complete environment for ad hoc and managed, actionable event-driven BI, and data integration. Combined with Cognos Enterprise Planning Series, its industry-leading solution for planning, budgeting, modeling, and forecasting, and Cognos Metrics Manager, the most robust and flexible enterprise scorecarding solution, Cognos is the only company to deliver a complete and integrated solution for CPM.

"The largest and most successful companies around the globe continue to embrace Cognos for its industry-leading breadth of functionality, scalability, and ease of use," said Rob Ashe, Cognos president and chief operating officer. "This prestigious positioning by Gartner is a testament to the continued momentum Cognos enjoys in the BI market, the award-winning quality and innovation of our products like Cognos ReportNet, and the strength of our corporate performance management vision."

Since its release just seven months ago, Cognos ReportNet is already meeting the needs of hundreds of today's multi-national, diversified enterprises. Built upon a service-oriented architecture, Cognos ReportNet scales to 100s of 1,000s of users, has amassed millions in license revenue. The solution is currently the reporting standard for a number of enterprises, including Noodles & Company, Syngenta, Alfred Publishing, Manugistics, UTi Worldwide, and Werner.

"These outstanding results for a product have convinced me that we not only have a great growth driver for the company today, but we have an architectural foundation that will raise the bar in the business intelligence market," continued Ashe. "Cognos ReportNet is the kind of exceptional innovation that has driven our company for the last thirty years and it is innovation that will carry us forward." For complete details on Gartner's April 2004 BI Magic Quadrant, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.

ABOUT COGNOS:

Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance. Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage -- Corporate Performance Management (CPM) -- achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence.

Cognos serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence 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.

Magic Quadrant Disclaimer

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted April 2004 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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.

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