BURLINGTON, MA, October 19, 2004—Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced the company has completed another round of intensive certifications to enhance its existing "Powered by SAP NetWeaverT" designation for the SAP NetWeaver platform. Selected by a wide range of global enterprises worldwide, Cognos ReportNet - integration certified by SAP - delivers rapid and effective global-scale enterprise reporting from SAP® Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), a core product within SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI), a component of SAP NetWeaver.

"By providing certified interfaces to SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW and SAP Enterprise Portal, Cognos ReportNet can significantly contribute to the success of SAP BI projects," said Jörg Narr, Analyst at the Business Application Research Center (BARC), a recognized analyst in the field of business intelligence in Central Europe. "From a ROI-oriented perspective, Cognos ReportNet has a high potential of becoming one of the leading reporting platforms for SAP BI customers."

In January, Cognos ReportNet was one of the first enterprise applications to achieve Powered by SAP NetWeaver certification. Further enhancing its commitment to SAP solutions and its partnership with SAP, Cognos successfully upgraded its SAP certification of Cognos ReportNet iViews to include integration to SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0. This certification extends Cognos ReportNet's existing SAP certified integration, including "Certified for SAP NetWeaver."

"Cognos ReportNet is one of the only reporting software products to be designed from the ground up to complement and leverage the full business value of SAP BW," said Peter Griffiths, senior vice president, products, Cognos. "As we continue to build support for SAP solutions, our industry-leading products will be configured according to SAP best practices and certified as providing the ideal method of working within the SAP solution-based environment. This provides greater numbers of users unprecedented access to SAP data, as well as the ability to work with and share that information in a way that suits them best."

Allowing customers to fully leverage their software solutions from SAP and other vendors, Cognos ReportNet helps to ensure that business users receive a consistent view of corporate performance information in a single, easy, browser-based, drag-and-drop interface for simple or sophisticated reports for all levels of users.

Cognos continues to actively engage in SAP integration certifications to give IT confidence in the quality of Cognos' solutions - displaying Cognos' high level of support of SAP solutions.

Cognos ReportNet solution draws upon Cognos reporting and query leadership, delivering a revolution in reporting. Cognos ReportNet is fully integrated within Cognos Enterprise BI solution, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event management, and data integration.

Cognos is a member of the SAP Software Partner program. Today, more than 100 global Cognos consultants and partners are trained on SAP BI integration to help ensure customers get the highest degree of support and success.

To learn more about Cognos' integration with SAP BW, visit http://www.cognos.com/sapbwreporting.

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.