Cognos Customers Honored at Cognos Forum 2007

At its annual customer conference in Orlando yesterday, Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, awarded 10 of its customers with Cognos Performance Leaders Awards. The award winners demonstrate world-class business intelligence implementations or innovation in financial planning and control across three categories: Leadership in Technology, Leadership in the Office of Finance and Performance Visionary. A brief overview of award winners and categories follows below. Profiles on each winner are available at: http://www.cognos.com/news/awards/cognosforum07.html Leadership in Technology: Cognos awarded The Boeing Company, the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined, with the Impact Through Technical Innovation Award. This award recognizes the individuals and teams that have lead business change and achieved demonstrated impact for the organization using Cognos solutions. Cognos awarded Freightliner, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler, and the largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America, with its Operational Excellence Award. This award honors a line of business that has achieved operational excellence in a key performance area for their organization. Leadership in the Office of Finance: Folksam Insurance Group, a leading Swedish mid-market insurance company, was awarded the Executive Excellence Award, which honors an executive who has leveraged Cognos solutions to increase visibility and control over financial and operational performance for their organization. The finance team of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies, a leading developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, was recognized with the Innovation and Best Practices Award. BASF Corporation, Bloorview Kids Rehab, BlueCross Blue Shield of Tennessee, The City of Albuquerque, DIRECTV and Miami-Dade County Public Schools were honored with Performance Visionary Awards as organizations that have achieved game-changing business impact through the use of Cognos solutions, have defined a vision for achieving performance leadership or have enabled business performance in new ways with tangible business impact. "These award winners represent the multitude of performance management innovators and leaders who have elected to partner with Cognos,” said Dave Laverty, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Cognos. "These customers are leveraging performance management technology to gain competitive advantage by transforming their business processes and improving their ability to make decisions with confidence through access to reliable, timely and secured information.” The Cognos Performance Leaders Awards were sponsored by Fortune and InformationWeek. About Cognos Forum 2007 Cognos Forum 2007 is the premier customer conference for business intelligence, enterprise planning, and performance management. With over 90 sessions, networking breakfasts and lunches, special events, keynote speakers, Cognos Forum provides the opportunity for organizations to learn more about Cognos products, industry trends, or solving today’s biggest performance management issues. IBM and Deloitte are the two platinum sponsors of Cognos Forum 2007. Gold sponsors include Cognos partners Appfluent, Envisn, HP and Niteo. "IBM and Cognos are committed to collaborating on the key trends and innovations that are shaping the business intelligence and performance management markets and we’re pleased to be a platinum sponsor of Cognos Forum 2007,” said Karen Parrish, Vice President of Worldwide Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM. "Our long-standing relationship with Cognos is based on a mutual focus on making customers successful. Together, we’re helping organizations drive more value out of their information to make timely, informed business decisions that are critical to their bottom-line success." "Deloitte Consulting is pleased to be a Platinum sponsor of Cognos Forum 2007. Both companies share a common goal of enabling our clients to drive better and faster decisions, greater accountability, and stronger alignment between strategy and execution. The costs and consequences of not giving this executive attention are significant," said Scott Sognefest, a principal with Deloitte Consulting and the company's U.S. practice leader for business intelligence and data warehousing. "More money is being spent in this area than most corporations realize. In many cases it could be one of the largest unmanaged costs in the business. Perhaps more importantly, the risk associated with producing inaccurate information is greater than it has ever been before. The average impact of a restatement is 18% of your share price 60 days after the fact. That is a great deal of money that people just cannot ignore.” About Cognos: Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions -- How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies. Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos 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. Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and product information are available on the Cognos Web site at www.cognos.com.