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To: jack crane who wrote (873)	10/5/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: let	Respond to of 1200

Off subject, Cognos: but sounds like Nucleus may be in this, read about the "fastest & the most ROI", this sounds familiar. Cognos announcement/PowerPlay October 5, 1998 08:39 AM (Full text of press release from Canada NewsWire) Cognos Partners Embrace PowerPlay 6.0 Industry Approval Is High For Leading OLAP Tool OTTAWA, Oct. 5 /CNW/ - Cognos(R) (Nasdaq: COGNF; Toronto: CSN), the leading strategic business intelligence vendor, today announced the immediate availability of Cognos PowerPlay(R) 6.0 with widespread support from industry partners. Here's what just a few partners have to say about the world-leading online analytical processing (OLAP) solution from Cognos. With the pace and complexity of today's manufacturing environment, business managers need accurate information that makes sense of the entire integrated business, from finances to the shop floor. With the number of deployment options, including Web deployment, Cincom customers using PowerPlay 6.0 can deliver reporting solutions across the enterprise, enabling business managers to focus on performance and continuous improvement within their complex manufacturing organization.'' -- Mitch Dwight, product manager for Cincom's CONTROL:Financial applications Cognos continues to set the standard for reporting and analysis tools with the release of PowerPlay 6.0. As we research the market for the best technologies, Cognos remains Creative Computing, Inc.'s technology partner of choice. Cognos enables CCI to provide clients with fast, cost-effective access to relevant information in support of knowledge-based business analysis and decision-making. CCI's more than 100 percent annual growth would be more difficult without Cognos' industry leading products.'' -- David R. Doucette, president and CEO, Creative Computing, Inc. By increasing the power and flexibility of PowerPlay in 6.0, Cognos has delivered a powerful, yet easy-to-use business intelligence solution for Great Plains' Dynamics C/S+ customers. The ability to perform online analytical processing using Dynamics C/S+ business and financial data benefits our enterprise-wide customers by turning data into knowledge.'' -- Charleen Gust, Dynamics C/S+ product line manager, Great Plains Perkins Consulting is looking forward to the release of PowerPlay 6.0. The capabilities of this tool position it as the market leader for business performance measurement, and a natural fit with our business metrics and balanced scorecard practice. The ease of enterprise deployment and management are crucial for our clients.'' -- Bill Henderson, president of Perkins Consulting Symix is excited to offer PowerPlay 6.0 to our customers. With powerful new features like nested crosstabs, enhanced report building and currency conversion we will continue to empower our customers with the knowledge they require to make key decisions about their businesses.'' -- Krista Endsley, business intelligence product manager at Symix. T4G is pleased to support Cognos' leading OLAP solution. The release of PowerPlay 6.0 maintains the business and performance standards that Cognos continues to deploy. PowerPlay will continue to provide a successful business intelligence tool for managers and executives, and T4G welcomes the opportunity to be involved with this enterprise business intelligence solution and partner.'' -- Geoff Flood, president of T4G Cognos Cognos is the leading strategic supplier of enterprise business intelligence tools, allowing users to easily extract critical information through data access, reporting, analysis and forecasting. Cognos products consistently deliver the highest productivity gains to the user, the most manageable solution to the administrator, and the fastest return on investment (ROI) to the enterprise. Cognos also develops, markets and supports software tools for enterprise application development. Founded in 1969, Cognos is a publicly traded company with offices around the world. Cognos is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. For more information, visit Cognos' World Wide Web site at cognos.com. COGNOS and POWERPLAY are registered trademarks of Cognos Inc. Other products mentioned in this document are registered, trademarked, or service marked by their respective owners. Note: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and product information are available on Cognos' World Wide Web (WWW) site at cognos.com, and at PR Newswire's site at prnewswire.com. /For further information: Roberta Carlton of Cognos, (781) 229-6600 or Patricia Mercier or Jennie Svitavsky of LNS Communications, (617) 577-9777/ REUTERS