Press Releases & HP e3000 Advisor

[Whittall, Conrad]

I thought that you might be interested in two press releases published today
related to the PowerHouse products:
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COGNOS® ANNOUNCES HIGH-PRODUCTIVITY WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR
INTERNET-READY HP e3000 SERVERS

-- Cognos Extends and Enhances its Application Development Solutions -- 

BURLINGTON, MA, May 25, 2000-Cognos® (NASDAQ:COGN; TSE:CSN) today further
expanded its longstanding relationship with Hewlett-Packard Company
(NYSE:HPW) by announcing the immediate availability of the latest versions
of the Cognos PowerHouse® family of high-productivity application
development tools for the Internet-ready HP e3000 business servers. With
thousands of customers around the world, Cognos continues to enhance its
popular application development toolset.

PowerHouse Web 2.29 is the premier HP e3000 release of the latest addition
to the PowerHouse family that delivers reliable and scalable Web-based
applications by harnessing the high-productivity development and native data
access capabilities of PowerHouse 4GL.

Also immediately available are both PowerHouse 4GL 8.29 - the latest version
of this popular server-based application development environment for the HP
e3000, enhanced with numerous Web-specific application development
capabilities - and Axiant® 4GL 3.0, the latest version of Cognos'
Windows-based integrated development environment (IDE) for PowerHouse.
Axiant 4GL enables Web, Windows and terminal-based PowerHouse applications
to be built in an intuitive graphical environment, and then deployed to any
of the supported PowerHouse 4GL or PowerHouse Web platforms. Axiant 4GL 3.0
fully supports the Web enhancements made to the latest version of PowerHouse
4GL, as well as providing extensive advice and automated assistance to
PowerHouse customers looking to move existing terminal-based PowerHouse
applications into new environments.

"This announcement further strengthens our long-term relationship with
Cognos," said Winston Prather, general manager of HP's Commercial Systems
Division. "The developer productivity delivered by the Cognos PowerHouse
tools will greatly enhance our HP e3000 customers' ability to quickly
deliver sophisticated, core business applications that are easily accessible
through either a Web browser or on the Windows desktop. The Cognos tools are
an ideal complement to HP's reliable and highly scaleable Internet-ready HP
e3000 business servers."

"Cognos and HP have provided the best of both worlds - fast, reliable,
mature, and scalable software with the hardware to match," said Blair Combs,
Manager of Administrative Systems, Idaho State University. "Now, just as HP
focuses its efforts by adding robust 'e' capabilities to the HP e3000,
Cognos steps up to deliver their sought-after PowerHouse Web solution for
the MPE/iX operating system - utilizing the same mature programming language
we have come to depend on for more than 15 years."

Ed Shepherdson, director, Application Development Tools, Cognos, adds "In
delivering our new PowerHouse tools to the HP e3000 market, Cognos continues
to fulfill its promise to protect our customers' investments in applications
and developer skills, while at the same time offering the ability to adopt
new environments and technologies at their own pace."

About Cognos PowerHouse:

The Cognos PowerHouse family of high-productivity application development
tools consists of PowerHouse 4GL, Axiant 4GL and PowerHouse Web. PowerHouse
4GL is a server-based application development environment that enables
line-of-business application solutions to be built quickly and modified
easily, often delivering developer productivity improvements of up to 90%
when compared with traditional tools such as COBOL, BASIC, C, C++ and Java.
Axiant 4GL provides a visual integrated development environment (IDE) for
building Web, Windows and terminal-based PowerHouse applications for
deployment in a variety of flexible and scalable Web-based, client/server
(thin-client and fat-client), server-based and mobile or standalone
topologies. Using Axiant 4GL developers benefit from the same productivity
improvements available with PowerHouse 4GL but work in a powerful,
object-based, Windows environment.

PowerHouse Web is the newest addition to the PowerHouse family. It enables
PowerHouse application screens to be deployed for access through a standard
Web browser - so enabling the renowned developer productivity of both
PowerHouse 4GL and Axiant 4GL to now be used to deliver Web applications on
any of the supported PowerHouse Web platforms. And through a flexible
request distribution and dynamic load balancing architecture, PowerHouse Web
enables efficient deployment of Web-applications in heterogeneous server
environments. 

Details of the Cognos application development solution for the HP e3000 can
be found on the Cognos Web site at
http://www.cognos.com/hp3000. Cognos is a member of the HP Computing
Solution Provider Program. The Cognos PowerHouse family of products is also
available for HP-UX and Microsoft Windows® NT/2000.
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COGNOS® ANNOUNCES IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF AXIANT® 4GL 3.0

-- Delivers sophisticated high-productivity visual development environment
for robust and scalable multi-tiered business applications -- 

BURLINGTON, MA, May 25, 2000-Cognos® (NASDAQ:COGN; TSE:CSN) today announced
the immediate availability of Axiant® 4GL 3.0, the latest version of its
Windows-based high-productivity integrated development environment (IDE) for
building and maintaining multi-tiered business applications.

As the visual development component of the Cognos PowerHouse® family of
tools, Axiant dramatically increases developer productivity through the
strong data dictionary, built-in business data processing models and
flexible data access capabilities that it shares with the company's popular
server-based PowerHouse 4GL. By generating the core of an application
automatically - including interactive screens, production reports and volume
batch processes - Axiant is ideal for use in a rapid application development
environment, often delivering productivity improvements of up to 90% when
compared with traditional programming languages, such as COBOL, BASIC, C,
C++ and Java.

Axiant's LAN-based multi-user repository supports effective team
development. From a single source it supports both platform and database
independence, enabling applications to be deployed across clients and
servers in a variety of flexible Windows-based (thin-client, fat-client,
mobile and standalone), server-only (terminal) and web-based topologies -
all using the proven PowerHouse engine for processing. Axiant supports
simultaneous access to popular relational databases and many non-relational
file systems and databases through native APIs, together with ODBC access to
many other data sources. It also contains extensive facilities to help
automate the migration of server-based PowerHouse 4GL applications to new
deployment environments.

Axiant 4GL 3.0 includes many enhancements and new features, such as applying
its object-based inheritance to runtime toolbars, form events and field
events, as well as supporting the recently introduced PowerHouse Web product
as a deployment environment - enabling Axiant-developed applications to be
accessed through any standard web browser. The new and enhanced features of
Axiant 4GL 3.0 add to an already functionally rich development environment
and improve upon the manageability and deployment flexibility of Axiant
applications.

"Axiant 4GL 3.0 is the defining release for this product," said Ed
Shepherdson, director, Application Development Tools, Cognos. "Working
extensively with our customers and application partners worldwide," he
continued, "we have delivered a robust, multi-user, visual development
environment where our customers can build, maintain and enhance their core
business applications, while benefiting from the dramatic developer
productivity improvements and solid, reliable deployment capabilities that
only the Cognos 4GL technologies can deliver."

About Cognos Axiant 4GL:

Axiant 4GL is a member of the Cognos PowerHouse family of high-productivity
application development tools, providing a visual integrated development
environment (IDE) for creating Windows, web and terminal-based business
solutions. Axiant-developed solutions may be deployed in a variety of highly
flexible and scalable multi-tiered topologies utilizing clients based on
Windows 95/98, Windows NT, or Windows 2000 and servers running under MPE/iX,
OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows NT or Windows 2000. Details of Cognos Axiant 4GL can
be found on the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com/axiant.
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Cognos, the Cognos logo, PowerHouse and Axiant 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.
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Both these press releases and other news items can be found on the Cognos
Web site, at http://www.cognos.com/news.
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There is also a PowerHouse-related article in the Spring 2000 edition of the
"HP e3000 Advisor", which you can find at http://www.hp.com/go/advisor.
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Best regards,
Conrad

Conrad Whittall
Marketing Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Incorporated
3755 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1G 4K9, Canada

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