BURLINGTON, MA, October 12, 2004 - Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced that it has strengthened its strategic relationship with Deloitte, one of world's leading professional services firms. Deloitte, a charter member of the Cognos Global Partner program, is now a preferred solution provider to perform supply chain performance management implementations for Cognos customers. The joint Cognos and Deloitte solution, Supply Chain Performance AcceleratorT, allows customers to implement effective supply chain planning, monitoring, and execution solutions that optimize supply chain performance across their extended enterprise.

"Successful supply chain performance management is about connecting performance measures and strategy. It's also about prioritization and knowing what to do with alerts and status changes as they occur," said Stephen Brown, Supply Chain Performance Management Services Leader, Deloitte. "By offering the new Supply Chain Performance Accelerator solution, Deloitte is poised to help supply chain executives not only achieve the benefits of greater efficiency, but also expanded opportunities that come with a sound application of performance management."

With industry-leading solutions, including Cognos Metrics Manager, its award-winning scorecarding solution, Cognos enables supply chain executives to monitor all aspects of their supply chain performance including demand and supply plans, inventory investment, production operations, quality, cost variance, and transportation performance This visibility helps users reduce excessive or unnecessary inventory or operating costs, enabling them to free-up working capital and boost profitability. Together, Cognos and Deloitte allow executives to see how trends in the value of inventory compare with inventory turns and days of coverage so you they uncover opportunities and issues in materials management. By monitoring key indicators - such as on-time delivery, product and process quality, reliability, cost and average lead-time - across multiple locations and different suppliers, users can view current status and trends and keep their supply chain performance on track.

"Deloitte and Cognos combine best of breed technology expertise with industry specific supply chain and manufacturing expertise to deliver highly effective supply chain performance management and reporting solutions. We help clients identify, evaluate, capture, and share intellectual capital for better supply chain performance management and decision making," said Paul Hoy, director of manufacturing solutions, Cognos. "Cognos continues to bring superior value to customers through its partnerships with the world's leading enterprise integrators allowing customers to use their corporate data to better understand - and act on - the factors driving their business."

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