Industry Thought Leaders Join Cognos Innovation Center Advisory Board

    -- New advisors bring industry best practices, expertise in financial
management, performance measurement and proven frameworks for success to
Cognos customers --

    ORLANDO, FLA., May 16 /CNW/ - Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world
leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today
announced six new appointments to the advisory board of the Cognos Innovation
Center(TM) for Performance Management.

    The Cognos Innovation Center was established in June 2004 to advance the
understanding of proven performance management best-practices and enabling
technologies. Staffed globally by experts in planning, business intelligence,
management processes, and technology, the Innovation Center partners with more
than 2000 Cognos customers, academics, partners, industry leaders, and others
who want to accelerate adoption, reduce risk, and maximize the impact of
technology-enabled performance management practices and business intelligence
competencies.

    The following industry leaders join an esteemed group of existing
advisors to form a team of visionaries that will guide Cognos and extend the
resources available for customers to advance state-of-the-art Performance
Management implementations:

    --  Scott W. Sognefest: Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP: Scott
Sognefest is a principal with Deloitte Consulting's Information Dynamics
practice and national leader of the Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
service offering. He has extensive experience delivering complex global
solutions focused on all aspects of business intelligence, data warehousing,
performance measurement, master data management and business case development
for enterprise information management programs.

    --  Frank E. Borgsmiller, Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP: Frank
Borgsmiller serves as the National Operations Leader for Deloitte's Financial
Management Services Practice and as the Regional Practice Leader for Mid
America. His extensive experience serving clients includes functional Finance
areas such as: Finance strategy and visioning, business process improvement
for core processes such as planning, budgeting and forecasting, and enterprise
performance management. In addition, Frank has helped develop and lead the
firm's national training programs on a variety of financial topics.

    --  Roland Mosimann, CEO and Co-founder of Business Intelligence
International: Roland is an industry veteran who has helped drive leadership
initiatives around BI and performance management since 1995. In 2004 he drove
the launch of the Aline(TM) platform for on-demand Governance, Risk and
Compliance. He co-authored The Multidimensional Manager - 24 Ways to Impact
Your Bottom Line in 90 Days and The Multidimensional Organization: How to
Deliver the 24 Ways. Demand led to the printing of more than 400,000 copies
and these books remain in use by organizations worldwide today. He recently
co-authored The Performance Manager: Proven Strategies for Turning Information
into Higher Business Performance, which is available on Amazon.com.

    --  Patrick Mosimann, Founding and Joint Managing Director of PMSI
Consulting: Patrick is a seasoned performance management practitioner with
extensive experience in developing business-led solutions that support
decision makers. He has led several unique client engagements across consumer
goods, manufacturing, retail and services industry sectors. He recently
co-authored The Performance Manager: Proven Strategies for Turning Information
into Higher Business Performance, which is available on Amazon.com.

    --  Brett Knowles, Founding Partner and President, Performance
Measurement and Management: A thought leader in the performance measurement
space for more than 20 years, Brett co-developed the first balanced scorecard
software package, has helped over 1,000 organizations on their scorecard
journeys and has developed over 2,000 scorecards. His leadership has helped
three organizations that were later honored by being named by Drs. Kaplan and
Norton to the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame.

    --  Lawrence Maisel, Co-founding Partner of DecisionVu: A seasoned
business executive who has successfully demonstrated abilities to provide
leadership in Strategy and Financial Management, and Information Technology.
He has numerous experiences in Financial Services, Insurance, Communications
and Media, Pharmaceuticals, and Consumer Products industries where he has
developed business strategies, managed and improved business performance,
implemented business systems, and designed solutions to increase operating
performance and shareholder value. Larry co-created with Drs. Kaplan and
Norton, the Balanced Scorecard, co-authored with Drs. Kaplan and Cooper
"Implementing Activity-Based Cost Management". He is an Adjunct Professor at
Columbia University's Graduate Business School where he teaches Strategy
Management.

    "The Cognos Innovation Center advisory board represents some of the most
innovative and respected minds in the performance management industry," said
Dave Laverty, senior vice-president and chief marketing officer, Cognos. "As
we continue to develop and provide visionary solutions, the Cognos Innovation
Center and our esteemed advisors serve as a valuable resource by sharing
proven best-practices with customers as they embark on their respective
performance management journeys. The net result helps customers improve
organizational effectiveness, streamline decision-making and gain competitive
advantage."

    For further information on the Cognos Innovation Center visit:
http://www.cognos.com/innovationcenter/

    About Cognos:

    Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance
management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software
and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and
operational performance.

    Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best
practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete
performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive
solution that leverages an organization's ERP, packaged applications, and
database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions
-- How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? -
and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning
future business strategies.

    Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and
its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes.
Cognos performance management solutions and services are also available from
more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit
the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.

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