New Cognos Performance Solution Helps Colleges and Universities Improve Faculty Planning

Cognos Salary Planning and Position Control Blueprint provides
greater visibility into faculty funding, enabling plans that are best
aligned with growth
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(Business Wire)--Cognos(R) (NASDAQ: COGN) (TSX: CSN), the world leader in business
intelligence and performance management solutions, continues to extend
its higher education market leadership, announcing today the launch of
a new performance solution designed to help colleges and universities
drive more efficient faculty salary and position planning.

Tracking higher education faculty salaries can be a complicated
process, as many college and university professors draw their salary
from a number of funding pools that either supplement or replace the
base salary paid by their institution. While most of this data is
available from existing HR and ERP systems, the multitude of funding
sources and complex rules that need to be applied to each case make it
exceptionally difficult to obtain a global and consistent view of the
total cost of an individual or the total compensation they are
receiving.

The Cognos Salary Planning and Position Control Blueprint offers
colleges and universities a complete performance management framework
that delivers enhanced visibility into the ever-changing demographics
of their faculties. Using out-of-the-box functionality from Cognos 8
Planning and Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) - including
dashboards, analytical reports and a pre-configured data model - and
encompassing higher education industry best practices, the Cognos
Salary Planning and Position Control Blueprint lets users track
faculty salary sources, plan compensation updates and changes, and
determine headcount requirements. Management can then easily develop
salary and position funding plans that are properly aligned with
current and long-range academic program requirements.

"Increasing competition for students, funding and faculty is
forcing higher education institutions to improve their business
perspective and gain much greater insight into their operations, what
the critical drivers are and will be, and how to effectively manage
them," said Susan Gold, Vice President of Industry Marketing &
Solutions at Cognos. "Cognos Salary Planning and Position Control
Blueprint enables colleges and universities to gain deep insight into
the present, while also peering into the future. Armed with such
insights, they can then develop plans and strategies that will help
them build a lasting legacy."

Available immediately to customers, the Cognos Salary Planning and
Position Control Blueprint is the second higher education Blueprint
launched by Cognos in the last three months, joining the Cognos
Enrollment & Tuition Planning Blueprint, released in October 2007.
Together, the two Blueprints offer higher education customers an
integrated approach to advancing the quality of their education
programs, retaining skilled staff, complying with complex regulations,
managing costs, and improving overall financial performance.

Cognos also teamed up with Exeter Group and the National
Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) in
July 2007 to launch an online, interactive solution designed to help
institutions compare tuition discounting management strategies with a
peer group and industry norms.

Cognos is a recognized leader in delivering performance management
solutions for colleges and universities. Over 1,000 higher education
institutions worldwide use Cognos, including Southern Methodist
University, The George Washington University, University of Minnesota,
University of Toronto, University of Ulster (Ireland) and University
of Wollongong (Australia). More information about Cognos solutions for
higher education can be found at www.cognos.com/higher_ed.

Note to Editors:

Cognos will be hosting a Higher Education Virtual Conference on
Thursday, January 24, 2008 from 1 pm - 4:30 pm Eastern. The Conference
includes breakout sessions featuring key Cognos higher education
customers, a review of Cognos' higher education solutions, and a
keynote from John Walda, president and chief executive officer of
NACUBO. For more information, please visit the conference site at
http://events.unisfair.com/index.jsp?eid=191&seid=419.

About Cognos Performance Blueprints:

Cognos offers a full suite of Performance Blueprints to address
planning and performance management process areas that directly impact
an organization's ability to create business value. Both
functional and industry-specific process areas can now be automated,
streamlined and transformed to help organizations quickly create more
business value. Developed by the Cognos Innovation Center for
Performance Management, the Cognos Performance Blueprints are a key
component within the Cognos Performance Management System, which
combines technology, best practices, analytical applications and
solutions, and a broad network of partners into a single performance
management solution. For further information on the Cognos Performance
Blueprints see http://www.cognos.com/innovationcenter/blueprint.html.

About Cognos:

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.

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.

Media Contacts:
Cognos
David DeRosa, 613-738-1338 ext. 3317
david.derosa@cognos.com
or
Lois Paul & Partners, LLC
Kristen Orfanos, 781-782-5852
kristen_orfanos@lpp.com
or
Investor Relations:
Cognos
John Lawlor, 613-738-3503
john.lawlor@cognos.com

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