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BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced widespread channel partner support for Cognos ReportNet. Cognos ReportNet offers unrivaled enterprise reporting coverage including production reporting, the ability to dramatically streamline report authoring, and an unparalleled openness and flexibility - all designed to meet the needs of today's multi-national, diversified enterprises. Working with partners and customers worldwide, Cognos has tested the solution's Web-based report and query authoring environment, extensive multi- lingual support, and open XML-driven architecture. Designed to scale to 100s of 1000s of users, Cognos ReportNet draws upon Cognos' reporting and query leadership, delivering the next revolution of 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. "The customer and partner response to Cognos ReportNet has been nothing short of overwhelming," said Ted Jandl, vice president of strategic partners, Cognos. "Working with industry partners, Cognos is cementing its business intelligence and corporate performance management leadership with the availability of Cognos ReportNet. With these industry-leading partners, our market reach and ability to address the unique needs of today's enterprises is unprecedented." Cognos ReportNet has received key support from several of the company's premier channel partners. Creative Computing: 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." Exinom Technologies: Exinom Technologies, a Cognos Pinnacle Partner(TM), serves a broad cross- section of clients throughout Canada and the United States in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, banking, government, insurance, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and retail. "Exinom is pleased to announce support for Cognos ReportNet," said Suresh Nichani, Exinom's president and CEO. "Through our longstanding partnership with Cognos, we are helping organizations tie the efforts of individual employees to the fulfillment of corporate strategy - delivering increased competitive advantage and a clear understanding of how their role impacts overall performance." isa consulting: A Cognos premier partner since 1995, ISA provides business intelligence solutions to customers across North America in the pharmaceutical, consumer product goods, financial services, and manufacturing sectors. Currently, joint Cognos-ISA customers include Johnson & Johnson, AT&T, Orix, PECO Energy, and Allied Building Products. "With Cognos ReportNet, Cognos further asserts and extends it presence in the business intelligence space," said Lou Polisano, executive vice president, ISA Consulting. "In partnership with Cognos we continue to provide an integrated business intelligence framework to our customers that is designed for easy deployment throughout some of the largest enterprises in the world." NEWCOMP SOLUTIONS: Newcomp Solutions, a Cognos Pinnacle Partner(TM), serves a broad cross- section of clients throughout Canada and the United States in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, banking, government, distribution, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and retail. Currently, Newcomp-Cognos joint customers include Binney & Smith Canada, Markham Stouffville Hospital, Lindt & Sprungli (Canada) Inc., and Northern Telephone. "As an established Cognos partner, we are pleased to be supporting Cognos ReportNet," said Michael Langton, a partner at Newcomp Solutions. "In today's economy, our customers are faced with escalating amounts of data. By teaming with Cognos on ReportNet, we are offering our customers a truly enterprise- ready solution - that draws upon Cognos reporting and query leadership, delivering the next revolution of reporting." onyx: Onyx, a Cognos Pinnacle Partner, has been embedding Cognos industry- leading business intelligence solutions into its CRM offerings since 2001, providing customers with tools necessary to accurately measure the effectiveness of their CRM strategies. These reporting and analytics solutions give Onyx customers insight into their marketing, sales, and service processes that allow them to make adjustments as needed and get maximum ROI out of their CRM investment. "With ReportNet, we will be able to more tightly integrate the Onyx and Cognos product offerings at the user interface, security and database levels," said Ben Kiker, senior vice president and Chief Marketing Officer, Onyx Software. "This integrated approach will create a smarter, simpler solution for our customers that merges world class business intelligence from Cognos with world class CRM from Onyx. We look forward to delivering an even greater level of reporting power to our customers through ReportNet." rcg information technology: RCG IT serves over 360 customers and 43 of the Fortune 100 in a broad range of markets, including financial services, insurance, energy/oil & gas and pharmaceuticals. Cognos and RCG IT jointly provide full-service BI resources to create integrated solutions that meet today's technical and business needs. Through these efforts, clients minimize risk and maximize return on their BI projects. "Cognos' broad and deep product line, including Cognos ReportNet, provides all the tools enterprises need to gain competitive advantage and improve decision-making in a quick, intuitive format," said Richard Skriletz, RCG IT national managing principal for BI. "End-users will benefit from the strategy, architectural and delivery skills that are RCG IT's strong suit, coupled with Cognos products' unsurpassed flexibility and customization capabilities, so that they may accelerate time-to-market for BI systems, with higher-quality implementation, operation and maximum performance." saba: Saba, a Cognos Pinnacle Partner(TM), is the leading provider of human capital development and management (HCDM) solutions, which increase organizational performance through the implementation of a management system for aligning, developing, and managing people. Among the Global 2000, Saba customers include Alcatel, Anheuser-Busch, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, EMC Corp., Kaiser Permanente, Medtronic, Procter & Gamble, and VERITAS Software. "We are excited at the prospect of integrating ReportNet into Saba Analytics, the industry-leading solution that empowers organizations to analyze enterprise learning effectiveness and its impact on performance," said Malcolm Hobbs, Saba's vice president of worldwide marketing. "With its rich functionality, a pure web-based architecture from the ground up, and productivity-enhancing suite of pre-built components, Cognos' next generation reporting platform sets the benchmark for other reporting tools in the marketplace." Sky Solutions: Sky Solutions, a Cognos Pinnacle Partner(TM), utilizes wide range of Cognos software. The company specializes in creating business intelligence and data warehousing systems that help turn data from a variety of sources into usable information. Sky has global customers in areas such as healthcare, manufacturing, financial, media, and insurance. "Cognos products consistently deliver the highest productivity gains to the user, the most manageable solution to the administrator, and the fastest return on investment to the enterprise," said Gary Shiller, vice president of Sky Solutions. "We see support of ReportNet as the natural extension of our partnership, and we believe it will be a critical component of our data warehousing practice."