Press Release

27 May 99 08:56:52 -0400

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Let me get this straight.   

>PowerHouse Web starts at 
>US$500 for a Windows NT Workstation. 

$500? 

Is there a zero missing?  Does this include a development license, QDESIGN, 
QTP, QUIZ, etc? 

Mark Stewart 
Consultants Club Corp. 
Windsor, Ontario 
CANADA

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COGNOS=AE ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF
POWERHOUSE=AE WEB AND POWERHOUSE=AE 4GL 8.2

-- PowerHouse Family Now Brings Proven Productivity, Reliability and
Scalability
To Web Applications --

BURLINGTON, MA, May 25, 1999 -- Cognos* (NASDAQ:COGN; TSE:CSN) today
announced the immediate availability of Cognos PowerHouse=AE Web and Cognos
PowerHouse=AE 4GL 8.2, reconfirming Cognos' commitment to its more than 5,00=
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PowerHouse customers by offering an effective and powerful Web deployment
option for their mission-critical business applications.

PowerHouse Web, the latest addition to the PowerHouse family of application
development tools that includes PowerHouse 4GL and Axiant=AE 4GL, enables We=
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deployment of customers'  mission critical applications built using
PowerHouse 4GL. Now corporate users, customers, and suppliers can be given a
simple, intuitive, user interface to applications that requires zero
training. PowerHouse 4GL 8.2 enables developers to generate an HTML
interface for PowerHouse screen programs. This interface is open to further
enhancement with HTML, JavaScript, Java applets, ActiveX controls, XML,
etc., using either a text editor or any of the popular Web authoring tools.

PowerHouse Web enables customers to deliver a Web interface for any
data-driven PowerHouse business application - existing or new - such as
customer service, on-line reservations and sales-order processing.
Applications deployed using PowerHouse Web benefit from a flexible request
distribution architecture that increases scalability, eliminates single
points of failure, and provides effective load balancing across
heterogeneous networks of Windows NT, UNIX, Hewlett Packard MPE/iX and
Compaq OpenVMS application servers.

 "Our customers look for new and innovative ways to reuse and extend their
existing information technology investments," said Alan Rottenberg, Cognos
senior vice president of marketing and business strategy. "By bringing
PowerHouse to the Web, we're protecting our customers' investments in their
PowerHouse skills and applications with proven, stable technology. Cognos is
committed to helping its customers leverage Web-based applications for
competitive advantage, both by extending the value of their existing systems
and by building new ones." 

PowerHouse 4GL is a robust, industry-proven product that enables  production
application programs to be written quickly and modified easily. Powerful
built-in business data processing models, and support for simultaneous
access to relational databases and non-relational file systems, result in
dramatically increased productivity for application developers. Now the same
productivity improvement is available for Web applications, with PowerHouse
4GL able to build fully functional Web-enabled programs. Built on the
strengths of Cognos' industry-proven PowerHouse application server engine,
PowerHouse Web provides a reliable and scalable solution to leverage
existing data assets and maximize an organizations' technology investments.

"We're looking forward to the flexibility and faster time to result
PowerHouse Web offers," said Paul Patenaude, Web application developer for
the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. "Using PowerHouse
4GL to develop the data access, processing logic and default HTML user
interfaces, PowerHouse Web will help us make light work of developing a
data-driven Web application, allowing our developers more time to customize
interfaces to better suit the requirements of our end-users."

Pricing and Availability
Available immediately on Windows=AE NT and HP-UX, PowerHouse Web starts at
US$500 for a Windows NT Workstation, and at US$10,000 for workgroup server
machines running Windows NT Server or HP-UX. Availability on other UNIX
platforms, together with MPE/iX and OpenVMS, will be announced shortly. For
more detailed information on PowerHouse Web and PowerHouse 4GL, please refer
to the Cognos Web site at: http://www.cognos.com/powerhouse.

Cognos
Founded in 1969, Cognos is a publicly traded company with offices around the
world and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. The Company develops, markets and
supports enterprise business intelligence solutions and software tools for
application development. Cognos also operate more than 30 offices in 12
countries around the world. Cognos products are available directly from
Cognos and through an extensive network of channel partners. For more
information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.

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Cognos, the Cognos logo, PowerHouse and Axiant are registered trademarks of
Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft
and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft  Corporation. All other
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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