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LINCOLN, R.I. -- Creative Computing today announced support for Cognos ReportNet, a complete Web-based enterprise query and reporting solution designed to meet the needs of today's multinational, diversified enterprises. In partnership with Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, Creative Computing leverages Cognos industry-leading BI solutions to help companies improve and direct corporate performance to make better business decisions, resulting in reduced costs and enhanced operating performance. Designed to scale to 100s of 1000s of users, Cognos ReportNet draws upon Cognos reporting and query leadership, delivering the next dramatic revolution of BI reporting. Cognos ReportNet is fully integrated within the entire breadth of the Cognos Enterprise BI solution, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event detection and alerting, and data integration. Creative Computing, a Cognos Pinnacle Partner(TM) reseller, has over 350 customers in areas such as healthcare, manufacturing, biotech, and insurance. Customers include Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Fleet, Corning, Analog Devices, Aspect Medical, GE, and OSRAM Sylvania. "We are pleased to bring Creative Computing customers this eagerly awaited, next-generation business intelligence solution," said David Doucette, President and CEO of Creative Computing, Inc. "In today's economy, our customers are faced with escalating amounts of data. By teaming with Cognos to offer ReportNet, we are offering our customers a solution with the ability to deliver massive scale reporting deployments opening up incredible opportunity for Cognos' customers worldwide."