Cognos Selected to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for Seventh Consecutive Year


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Cognos Selected to Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for Seventh Consecutive Year

Cognos is the sole Business Intelligence vendor selected in worldwide review of corporate sustainability best practices

Tom Manley
Senior Vice President
Cognos

Cognos the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that is was selected for the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for the seventh consecutive year. Cognos is the only independent Business Intelligence vendor named to this year?s list.

The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for 2006/2007 consists of 318 companies representing the top 10 per cent of the leading sustainability companies in 58 industry groups across 24 countries. These companies are selected from the largest 2,500 companies by market cap in the Dow Jones Global Indexes.

?Cognos' approach toward many sustainability criteria is consistently integrated into the strategic decision making process. The company leads the sector in areas such as customer relationship management, brand management and corporate governance in the economic dimension, and records an above average performance in several criteria of the social dimension, such as labor practice and talent attraction and retention,? the DJSI report states. ?Employees and clients are, besides products, research and development, among the most important long term assets of the firm.?

DJSI World describes leading sustainability companies as displaying high levels of competence in addressing global and industry challenges in a variety of areas including strategy, financial, customer and product, corporate governance and stakeholder engagement, and human resource management.

?Throughout our company history, Cognos continues to embrace the utmost standards of excellence in company transparency and accountability. Those standards are critical to our leadership and success,? said Tom Manley, Cognos senior vice president, finance and administration and chief financial officer. ?We are pleased to be recognized once again for our commitment to sustainability and good governance.?

For more information on this year?s report, please visit http://www.cognos.com/company/investor/profile/sustainability.html

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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