Cognos(R) Visualizer Wins Intelligent Enterprise Best Data Visualization Solution For Second Year

-- Cognos Visualizer wins by a 'landslide' with 100 percent more reader votes than closest contender --

BURLINGTON, MA USA, Oct. 23, 2002 -- Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI), today announced Cognos Visualizer has been awarded the coveted Intelligent Enterprise Magazine's Readers' Choice award for best data visualization solution for the second year running. The award-winning solutions are chosen annually based on feedback from the business intelligence and data warehousing user community.

"Cognos Visualizer was one of the landslide winners of this year's IE Reader's Choice, with at least 100 percent more votes than its closest followers," said David Stodder, editorial director of Intelligent Enterprise. "Winning for the second year in a row, Cognos Visualizer has again garnered an overwhelming percentage of our reader's vote in this category."

Cognos Visualizer provides broad-based support for quality methodologies like Six Sigma, the rigorous performance measurement system designed to drive continuous process improvements toward a goal of zero defects in products and services. Allowing global organizations to create robust and easy to design dashboards for Six Sigma and other quality methodologies, Cognos Visualizer allows decision-makers to view multiple, diverse metrics in a single visualization.

Users benefit from the ability to monitor metrics with Cognos scorecarding and gain additional context through visual analysis with Cognos Visualizer in a rich managed reporting environment. By providing users with geographic, cross-functional views, or reports animated over time at once in a highly intuitive graphical manner allowing them to understand the interrelationships between key metrics to effectively manage the performance of their business.

"It is an enormous honor to again be chosen by Intelligent Enterprise readers. The IE Reader's Choice awards are one of the industry's most prestigious as they come from the user community that evaluates and uses business intelligence solutions every day," said Don Campbell, vice president, product innovation & technology. "This is proof positive that Cognos Visualizer continues to lead the market in its unique ability to quickly and easily create visualizations of business intelligence data -- enabling accelerated decision-making."

ABOUT COGNOS

Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI), delivers software that helps companies improve business performance by enabling effective decision-making at all levels of the organization. A forerunner in defining the BI software category, Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage -- Corporate Performance Management (CPM) -- achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale.

CPM lets organizations measure execution against business strategy to ensure the two are aligned at all levels across the enterprise. Cognos provides a framework for CPM that links people, information, and decision- making processes throughout the organization, and enables the complete management cycle with integrated software for planning, budgeting, reporting, analysis, and scorecarding.

Cognos serves more than 20,000 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.

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