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Cognos Positioned as a Leader in Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms Report

Friday 15. August 2008 - Independent Research Firm Cites Cognos as a Market Leader with the Most Modern and Scalable BI Platform

Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company, and a world leader in business intelligence and performance management, today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. has recognized Cognos as a market leader in BI reporting and analysis platforms, according to the July 2008 report The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2008. Forrester cited Cognos as a leader based on the company’s strategy, market presence, and current offering of Cognos 8 BI v8.3.

The comprehensive report noted Cognos 8 BI v8.3 as a leader, citing Cognos as having the most modern and scalable BI environment. Cognos was recognized with five #1 (or tied for #1) sub-categories measured by Forrester (Operational, Product Direction, Global Presence, Partnership Ecosystem, and Install Base) and overall received the highest score for market presence. In addition, Cognos scored second in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories, and had the top score for the “Operational” sub-category, which includes Administration, Professional Services, Scalability, Security, Usability, and Support/Reliability.

“We are proud to be recognized as a Business Intelligence leader by Forrester, based both on our current offerings and on our strategy and market presence,” said Dave Laverty, vice-president, Worldwide Marketing, Business Intelligence and Performance Management, Cognos. “Under IBM, Cognos remains the only truly ERP-independent performance management solution — we can support all of the applications, databases, and infrastructures customers have now and in the future.”