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To: BM who wrote (88)	1/11/2000 9:55:00 PM
From: BM	Respond to of 111

NewSys Enters Strategic Services Partnership with Cognos(R) January 11, 2000 OTTAWA, ONTARIO--NewSys Solutions Inc. ("NewSys" or the "Company") (CDNX: NSS) today announced that it has entered into a new strategic partnership with Cognos(R) (NASDAQ:COGN; TSE:CSN), the leading strategic vendor of enterprise business intelligence. Under the agreement, NewSys becomes a member of TeamCognos, the highest level of partnership available within the Cognos Service Partners Program. The "TeamCognos" partner agreement, covering both Canada and the United States, represents an important achievement for the Company's Business Intelligence ("BI") practice. As part of the Company's strategy to become one of the top business intelligence ("BI") practitioners in North America, NewSys joins an elite group of Cognos Premier Partners. NewSys is a regular participant in the early stages of Cognos' product development and testing, marketing initiatives and conference sessions, and assists with the rollout of new Cognos products. NewSys also continues to provide services to Cognos' product-development, marketing and quality-assurance divisions. "Cognos is pleased to welcome NewSys to its TeamCognos program, helping our combined customers realize the value of e-business and maximize profit throughout their organizations," said Ben Plummer, Cognos vice president of North American technology services. "In competitive, fast-paced markets, we are able to leverage our technology and business expertise to help organizations rapidly achieve high value results. Through our partnership with NewSys, customers can take advantage of demonstrated business experience and technical expertise to rapidly and cost-effectively improve the quality of e-business reporting and analysis." Cognos is the leading vendor of enterprise business intelligence solutions. Business Intelligence software makes corporate data easily accessible to everyone in an organization, so they can better coordinate decision-making across the entire enterprise, and improve the performance of the business. Cognos products are available directly from Cognos and through an extensive network of channel partners. The Company also develops, markets and supports software tools for application development. Founded in 1969, Cognos is a publicly traded company with offices around the world. US operations for the company are headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at cognos.com NewSys is an established IT-services company that delivers forward-looking solutions in business intelligence, systems integration and application management -and complements those solutions with a variety of proprietary and customized software products. Employing over 160 IT professionals, NewSys' clients include Fortune 500 corporations and government departments located in both Canada and the United States. The Company has recorded 25 consecutive quarters of growth and profitability and was acknowledged by Profit Magazine, for the third consecutive year, as one of the fastest growing companies in Canada. For more information on NewSys' software and services, please contact the Company's web site at newsys.com or telephone at (877) 761-9436. All logos, trade names, and product names and trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. The Canadian Venture Stock Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: For public relations, Attention: Sahira (Sara) Piracha Director of Corporate Marketing (877) 761-9436 sara.piracha@newsys.com or For investor relations, Linear Capital Corp. Attention: Tony Croll (416) 364-2266 tony@linearcapital.com www.linearcapital.com