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HUDSON, Mass. -- Business Intelligence, Inc. (BI) today announced that BI's Banking Knowledgebase templates will be available on 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 and corporate performance management, BI leverages Cognos industry-leading reporting and analytics platform to help banking and financial services organizations improve and direct corporate performance to make better, faster business decisions, resulting in reduced costs and enhanced operating performance. Designed to server the needs of local community banks, as well as global financial services organizations with 1,000s of users, BI's Banking Knowledgebase templates, employing Cognos ReportNet, draw upon Cognos reporting and analytics leadership to deliver the next dramatic revolution of actionable Banking management information. 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. "Our partnership with Cognos enhances our strategic focus on providing our clients with industry-leading information technology solutions to solve critical business problems," said Art McDonald, BI President and CEO. "By joining forces with Cognos to offer ReportNet, we are supplying our clients with the most scalable, integrated, and enterprise-ready reporting solution ever."