NETWORKS
Cognos BI Series 7 Wins Network Computing Magazine 2003 Well-Connected Award
BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced that Cognos BI Series 7 has won Network Computing Magazine's 2003 Well-Connected Award for business intelligence. Cognos BI Series 7 was chosen for its robust analytics, rapid deployment, ease of use and superior enterprise reporting. "Cognos BI Series 7 was selected by the highly respected team at Network Computing for its performance and usability. Given the Network Computing lab team's exacting standards for solution excellence, this award is an incredible honor," said Rob Ashe, president and chief operating officer, Cognos. "The Well-Connected Award is yet another testament to the efforts and innovation of the industry's largest business intelligence research and development team." Cognos BI Series 7 is the industry's most comprehensive business intelligence solution offering customers flexible scorecards, dashboards, managed reporting, powerful analysis, advanced ad hoc query, actionable event- driven BI and data integration. All winners and finalists are highlighted in the May 1st issue of Network Computing, Network Computing Online at http://www.networkcomputing.com/ and also on http://www.nwcwellconnected.com/. "The Well-Connected Awards are the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world product testing and evaluation. We view all products, technologies and services from the same perspective as our readers - - our peers-do," said Fritz Nelson, VP and Publisher of Network Computing. "This is an important distinction from any other award program -- the products selected in the Well Connected Awards are unique because they have been tested over an enterprise by our editors themselves. They are truly innovative solutions that work." Cognos BI Series 7 was also recently selected as a finalist for Datamation Magazine's Product of the Year 2002 in the Data Mining and Business Intelligence category. Cognos Enterprise Planning was also selected in the Enterprise Resource Planning category. For additional information, visit http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/pyear.