Cognos Names Don Campbell Chief Technology Officer


OTTAWA, ON and BURLINGTON, MA, Oct. 18, 2007 – Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that Don Campbell has been appointed to the position of chief technology officer.

Mr. Campbell is charged with overseeing the company's technology strategy to ensure Cognos technology assets are maximized and applied in sound and innovative ways to help drive greater business value for customers. Mr. Campbell will also continue to support Cognos' research and innovation process across all areas of the business.

“I am pleased to appoint Don Campbell as our new CTO,” said Peter Griffiths, senior vice president of products at Cognos. “This appointment underscores the key role Don plays in guiding concept to delivery of some of our most technically innovative offerings. In his new position, Don will work with technology leaders inside and outside the company to ensure that we best leverage technology opportunities to continue to accelerate our position as the leader in performance management.”

Mr. Campbell has 25 years of high tech experience, 20 of which have been with Cognos. As CTO, he will oversee the company's technology adoption strategy and its application within the Cognos platform. Mr. Campbell is responsible for analysis of leading-edge technology trends such as grid computing, mash-ups, search, and wireless information delivery in a performance management context.

Within Cognos, Mr. Campbell has held various roles ranging from research to software development to management. He has also contributed to the creation of several award-winning products. He sits on various industry technology boards and advisory committees and is the author of several published articles.

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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