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Cognos today announced that Cognos ReportNet has been chosen as a finalist for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) 2005 Codie Awards for the "Best Business Intelligence or Knowledge Management Solution" category. "It is an enormous honor to be selected by SIIA, an organization universally recognized as having exacting standards for solution excellence," said Dave Laverty, senior vice president of global marketing, Cognos. "Cognos ReportNet continues to gain marketplace momentum based on its ability to deliver enterprise value and rapid return on investment. Our continuing leadership is a result of the efforts of the industry's best business intelligence research and development team in the world." Built upon a service-oriented architecture, Cognos ReportNet scales to hundreds of thousands of users and draws upon Cognos' reporting and query leadership. It is an integral part of the Cognos Enterprise BI (EBI) Series, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry-leading OLAP analysis, event management, and data integration. The Codie Awards program is the only peer recognition program in the software and information industry, providing a unique opportunity for companies to compete for the praise of their competitors. The next phase of Codie Awards judging involves review of the products by SIIA members. Winners of the 2005 Codie Awards will be announced at the SIIA Annual Conference in May 2005. "The 20th annual Codie Awards continue the tradition of honoring the best of the software, content and education technology industries," said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. "When one considers the number of outstanding companies that competed this year, being named a Codie Awards finalist is a significant achievement." Fore more information about the 2005 Codie Awards Program, including a complete list of award finalists visit: http://www.siia.net/codies/2005/finalists.asp.