BURLINGTON, Mass., Sept. 8, 2004 -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced Cognos Metrics Manager, its industry- leading scorecarding solution, has been awarded Intelligent Enterprise Magazine's Readers' Choice award for best business monitoring solution. The award-winning solutions are chosen annually based on feedback from the business intelligence and data warehousing user community.

Cognos Metrics Manager is next-generation scorecarding technology that is an essential component of corporate performance management. It enables companies to model plans or strategies as a set of inter-connected performance indicators. Organizations use Cognos Metrics Manager to communicate goal- driven metrics to thousands of employees across the enterprise and to align employee actions and decisions with strategic corporate goals. Cognos Metrics Manager is tightly integrated with the Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence Series and Cognos Enterprise Planning solutions, and enables organizations to monitor, analyze, report, and act through the creation, management, presentation, and delivery of metrics.

"Cognos Metrics Manager was one of the clear cut winners for this year's awards," said David Stodder, Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Enterprise. "A consistent top performer in our surveys, Cognos continues to address the key imperatives of our readership by delivering return on IT investments for its customers and developing innovative ways to drive intelligence across the extended enterprise."

"It is a tremendous honor to be named a winner for this prestigious award and a testament to the strong market uptake Cognos Metrics Manager continues to attract. We are extremely pleased that our customers continue to be satisfied with our product innovation, lifecycle, support, and professional services," said Karen Williams, Cognos vice president of product marketing. "Organizations continue to embrace Cognos Metrics Manager as their scorecarding solution of choice, to link corporate strategy to individual execution and drive performance management across the enterprise."

In January 2004, Cognos took over the No. 1 spot in Intelligent Enterprise's 12 Most Influential Companies. Commonly referred to as "The Dozen," this highly anticipated, annual editorial selection is determined by the key editorial staff at IE based on technology leadership, innovation and customer satisfaction, as well as sheer influence in areas key to the development of data-rich, value-generating IT solutions.

About Intelligent Enterprise:

Published 18 times annually, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of 80,000 business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, enhance business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships. It provides both the context and the technical detail needed to take strategic business applications from concept to deployment, covering such interlocking technology categories as: application development, business intelligence and data warehousing, data management, enterprise application integration, enterprise/e-business applications, CRM and customer analytics, knowledge management, scalable server hardware, enterprise storage, and systems and applications management.

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About CMP Media LLC:

CMP Media LLC (http://www.cmp.com) is a leading integrated media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences and custom publishing.

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.

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. Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and product information are available on the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com and at PR Newswire's site at http://www.prnewswire.com.

Antonietta Iafrate
Cognos, 781-313-2454
antonietta.iafrate@cognos.com

Don Jennings
Lois Paul & Partners, 781-782-5756
don_jennings@lpp.com