To: Gilbert Drapeau who wrote (792 ) 7/16/2001 9:34:06 PM From: Gilbert Drapeau Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 843 COGNICASE Awarded Two High-Profile Ontario Government Projects: Ministry of Education, Ministry of the Environment MONTREAL, CANADA--JULY 16, 2001 - 14:26 EDT COGNICASE Inc. (Nasdaq: "COGI"), a leading e-business services provider specializing in secure and scalable real-time transactional solutions, is pleased to announce its successful bid to deliver two projects to the Ontario government. The combined value of these two projects is over CDN$2.8 million. The first involves the Ministry of Education's "Elementary/Secondary Data Warehouse" (EDSW) project. The data warehouse will improve the Ministry's capacity to store, manage, and analyze the data it collects about Ontario's education system. COGNICASE's solution will use IBM's DB2 UDB 7.0 Enterprise Edition RDBMS, Cognos's Business Intelligence tools for reporting and analytics, and Informatica's PowerCentre for extracting, transforming, and loading of source data into the warehouse and data marts. COGNICASE has also been chosen by the Ministry of the Environment, Government of Ontario, to deliver the internal system design, development, training and implementation for the Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Information System (PGMIS). The system is a Web-based application under the Ministry of the Environment's e.NVIRO-NET initiative to establish the Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network (PGMN). "These contracts highlight our position as a leading supplier of public sector management solutions and are perfectly in line with our determination to become a force to be reckoned with in the Ontario market," stated Ronald Brisebois, COGNICASE President and CEO. About COGNICASE COGNICASE is an innovative company specializing in the development and integration of real-time transactional solutions. Relying on its results-driven approach, software and technology, and its international Internet engineering and hosting centre, COGNICASE offers secure and scalable solutions that contribute to the success of its customers in the age of the new economy. The Company is active in several countries, including Canada, the United States, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia.