Cognos Partners with Attunity to Provide Seamless Mainframe & Legacy Data Integration for ETL and End-to-End Business Intelligence Solutions

WAKEFIELD, Mass., Feb. 9, 2004 -- Attunity Ltd. (Nasdaq: ATTU), a leading provider of standards-based integration solutions for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications, today announced that the Company has partnered with Cognos, Inc. (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in enterprise business intelligence (EBI) and corporate performance management solutions. Under the terms of the partnership, Cognos has certified Attunity's standards-based middleware product Attunity Connect(TM) and the companies will collaborate in joint sales and marketing activities.

The Attunity Connect(TM) product family provides right-time access to over 35 data sources on 20 different computing platforms. Attunity Connect adapters reside natively on each target platform and provide enterprise-class integration capabilities-such as real-time read/write access, bulk data extraction, heterogeneous joins between relational and non-relational data sources, and change data capture.

Cognos DecisionStream(TM) is an industry-leading data integration solution that delivers a reliable view of corporate data and business measurements, enabling more collaborative decision-making and providing a solid foundation for Corporate Performance Management (CPM). Integrated with the entire breadth of the Cognos Enterprise business intelligence Series, Cognos DecisionStream has a multi-platform, server-based ET engine and native support for all major relational database platforms.

Caroline Seymour, Director of Product Marketing for Cognos said, "Together, Cognos and Attunity's state-of-the-art legacy integration will empower organizations to maximize their investments in legacy and mainframe systems by integrating them into their data warehousing initiatives and deliver Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence across the enterprise."

Dan Potter, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Attunity said, "The Cognos Attunity partnership will enable us to deliver an end-to-end solution for organizations that will allow them to effectively leverage all of the data within the enterprise, much of which resides in stove-pipe legacy systems. Our joint solution will facilitate the customers ability to accelerate time to deployment, simplify the complexities of legacy integration, and significantly lower IT development and maintenance costs."

About Attunity Ltd.

Attunity(TM) is a leading provider of standards-based integration middleware for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications. Founded in 1987 and traded on the NASDAQ exchange, Attunity's worldwide operations support over 1,000 direct end-users including many of the Fortune 1000. Through distribution and OEM agreements with global-class partners such as Oracle and HP, Attunity-based solutions are deployed on tens of thousands of systems worldwide. Attunity's products are available through direct sales and support offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, the People's Republic of China, and Australia, as well as distributors in Japan, S.E. Asia, Europe and Latin America. For more information, visit http://www.attunity.com or email info@attunity.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the industry, product technology developments, market acceptance of our products and continuing product demand, the impact of competitive products and pricing, changing economic conditions, release and sales of new products by strategic resellers and customers, changes in demand for products, the timing and amount or cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities Exchange Commission, including our Form 20-FAnnual Report. These documents contain and identify other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward-looking statements. Stockholders and other readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. We undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statement.

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