OTTAWA and BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 10, 2006 -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management (CPM), today announced it is positioned in the Leaders quadrant of both Gartner, Inc.'s new Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant and the recent Corporate Performance Management Suites Magic Quadrant. Gartner evaluates vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

According to Gartner, "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." Business Intelligence, as defined by Gartner, is the access to and analysis of quantitative information sources to deliver insight that empowers decision makers. BI Platforms enable users and developers to build BI applications. Gartner defines the 20 capabilities of a BI Platform within three categories: Development and Integration, Information Dissemination, and Analysis.

The full Magic Quadrant report can be viewed at http://www.cognos.com/news/analyst_reviews.html.

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise groundbreaking capabilities to better manage performance by delivering a consistent, accurate view of all business information. As a complete, flexible product, Cognos 8 BI easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources. Its simplified BI environment improves user adoption, enables better decision-making, and provides a robust foundation for departmental BI and enterprise BI.

"The value of having scorecarding, reporting, and analysis integrated into one product with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is immense and allows us to do business differently," said Louis Barton, director of Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, Frost Bank. "With Cognos' advanced analysis capabilities, we are able to gain visibility into customer behavior, uncover new revenue opportunities and support decision-making with the latest information."

"Cognos 8 BI represents another innovation for Cognos, delivering a full range of capabilities from reporting and analysis to scorecarding, dashboarding, query, and more, all on one architecture," said Rob Ashe, president and CEO, Cognos. "We believe our position in the Leaders quadrant confirms the benefit customers receive from our 16 years of BI leadership, and underscores our unique capabilities to support business processes, standardize BI initiatives, and drive performance management."

Leading independent analyst firms have consistently positioned Cognos as a BI and performance management leader, including the recent Gartner Corporate Performance Management Suites Magic Quadrant. View these reports at http://www.cognos.com/news/analyst_reviews.html.

Source: Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q06, Kurt Schlegel, Bill Hostmann, Andreas Bitterer, Betsy Burton, January 9, 2006, ID Number: G00136660.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted December 2005 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 vendor's 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.

About Cognos:

Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software and services that help 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 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence and 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.

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Amy Shanler
Cognos, Inc., 781-313-2464
amy.shanler@cognos.com