Cognos Wins "Best Midmarket Strategy" at the 2007 Midsize Enterprise Summit Europe Event.

OTTAWA & BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced it has won the award for "Best Midmarket Strategy" at the Midsize Enterprise Summit Europe Event, which was held June 26-28 in Paris, France.

"We are honored to be named the winner of the Best Midmarket Strategy award," said Dave Laverty, chief marketing officer at Cognos. "We believe this is clear validation of our vision to help customers of all sizes drive business performance. With our new Cognos Now! solution, we can provide mid-market customers with immediate visibility and insight into how their business is performing at a lower total cost of ownership."

Cognos Now! empowers business users through highly visual, interactive, and self-service dashboards, analysis, and reports, delivering better insight and management of the business for faster and better informed decision making. Cognos Now! is a single, complete BI product that is prepackaged in a hardware appliance or hosted through the software-as-a-service model. With Cognos Now!, small to mid-size companies can easily integrate multiple data sources and deploy and maintain a complete BI solution at low cost. All the software is preconfigured and can be plugged into an organization's existing infrastructure.

More than 120 senior level decision-makers and leading technology providers attended the Midsize Enterprise Summit Europe Event, which featured private boardroom appointments led by the attending technology professionals; one-on-one meetings between executives, providers and analysts; industry insight sessions, and a full complement of networking programs.

"The IT Executives in attendance review many products and services at Midsize Enterprise Summit Europe. A Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award signifies that the attendees viewed the winners as having a level of excellence for IT Technology Providers in their category," said Charles Badoian, Senior Global Director for Midsize Enterprise Summit. The "Midsize Enterprise Innovation Awards" are the only industry awards voted on solely by leading midmarket IT executives.

About Midsize Enterprise Summit:

Midsize Enterprise Summit brings Senior IT Executives from midsize businesses together with Gartner Analysts, and leading and emerging Technology Providers. The focus--enabling strategic IT Decision-Making--embraces midmarket-specific issues, trends and solutions from a horizontal and vertical industry-specific perspective. The business-intensive format includes Gartner-led sessions, Technology Provider-led World Premiere and Private Boardroom Appointments, a Showcase of Exhibits, and networking functions.

About Vision Events:

Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) company, is a leading producer of highly focused business events that bring resellers and end users together with leading and emerging technology providers in private boardroom appointments to form strategic partnerships and secure new business in the technology sector. Additional information about Vision Events can be found at visionevents.com.

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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.

Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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