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Cognos Integration Extends Benefits of PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Solutions -- Joint customers to benefit from industry-leading reporting and analysis functionality of Cognos Series 7 -- BURLINGTON, Mass., August 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN - News; TSX: CSN - News) today announced the availability of integration with PeopleSoft® 8 Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), a PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT - News) suite of applications that provide organizations with real-time visibility into critical business processes. The PeopleSoft solution offers deep insights into the key issues facing global enterprises today: customer profitability, supplier effectiveness, and employee potential. The Cognos solution allows global customers to benefit from industry- leading reporting and analysis functionality of Cognos Series 7 while leveraging PeopleSoft EPM applications for profit-building opportunities, monitoring critical business metrics, evaluating enterprise efficiency, and empowering employees to make better decisions. Cognos has expanded the breadth of its enterprise business intelligence solutions for PeopleSoft customers by adding new functionality including rapid implementation services, report templates, and business-specific information views. "By offering the sophisticated, industry-leading business intelligence analysis and reporting capabilities from Cognos Series 7 in conjunction with the PeopleSoft EPM suite, we are delivering enormous competitive differentiation to our customers," said Chuck Teller, PeopleSoft vice president of Product Strategy -- Financial Management and Enterprise Performance Management. "Customers are empowering their workforce with the information and tools they need to improve decision making and to impact the overall performance of their entire organizations." Cognos Series 7 is one of the industry's most comprehensive, enterprise- class BI solutions. Cognos Series 7 offers mission-critical performance, reliability, and scalability, as well as unique operational event detection and alerting to wireless devices. Designed to exceed the expectations of today's enterprises, the Cognos Series 7 BI framework provides scalability to tens of thousands of users, robust Unix and Microsoft support, unsurpassed performance and reliability, and a 'no-compromise' breadth and depth of application choice that reflects the unique needs of enterprise user communities. Cognos worked jointly with eBusiness Advantage, Inc. to develop these solutions, which enable Cognos Series 7 to function seamlessly with PeopleSoft EPM applications. (See Release: Cognos Forms Partnership with eBusiness Advantage) "PeopleSoft EPM continues to deliver significant value to customers. The integrated solution further delivers the sophisticated analytic and reporting value of Cognos Series 7 to the PeopleSoft community," said Patrick O'Leary, Cognos vice president of strategic alliances. "Cognos and PeopleSoft share a longstanding partnership and will continue to work closely to evolve and extend our offerings to deliver corporate performance management." About Cognos Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI), delivers software that helps companies improve business performance by enabling effective decision-making at all levels of the organization. A forerunner in defining the BI software category, Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage-Corporate Performance Management (CPM)-achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. CPM lets organizations measure execution against business strategy to ensure the two are aligned at all levels across the enterprise. Cognos provides a framework for CPM that links people, information, and decision- making processes throughout the organization, and enables the complete management cycle with integrated software for planning, budgeting, reporting, analysis, and scorecarding. Cognos serves more than 20,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at 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. Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and product information are available on the Cognos Web site at www.cognos.com and at PR Newswire's site at prnewswire.com Media Contacts: Antonietta Iafrate Cognos, 781-313-2454 Samantha Smith Horn Group Inc., 781-356-7139 Investor Relations: John Lawlor Cognos, 613-738-3503