CGI, PARIS-BASED IBM SUBSIDIARY, TO RESELL COGNOS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
PRODUCTS

AGREEMENT ENSURES COMPLETE INTEGRATION OF IMPROMPTU&REG; AND POWERPLAY&REG;
INTO CGI HUMAN RESOURCES APPLICATIONS

BURLINGTON, MA, APRIL 24, 1996 -- Cognos (NASDAQ:COGNF; TSE:CSN), the
global leader in business intelligence products, today announced a
worldwide agreement under which CGI, a Paris, France-based subsidiary of
IBM, will resell Cognos' market-leading business intelligence tools,
Impromptu and PowerPlay, as part of its Human Resources Management
applications offering. CGI will completely integrate the Cognos products
into the CGI applications and resell them under the CGI name. Financial
terms were not disclosed.

"CGI's demand for the best business intelligence solution emphasizes
Cognos' market leadership," said Jean-Pierre Jauvin, director, Cognos
Business Development and Strategic Alliances. "CGI, one of the leading
European vendors of human resources software, will now be able to provide
our comprehensive solution to their customers in the most cost-effective
manner. This agreement underscores our international growth and horizontal
development in strategic markets."

"After an extensive evaluation of all the business intelligence tools in
the marketplace, it was obvious that Cognos offered the best solution for
our customers," said Jean-Claude Letranchant of CGI. "This agreement
substantially expands our Human Resources Management package by adding
Cognos' comprehensive database query, reporting and multidimensional
analysis capabilities. Our customers will receive Impromptu and PowerPlay
with prebuilt catalogs and multidimensional OLAP (Online Analytical
Processing) datacubes, substantially reducing maintenance costs associated
with interface-only integrations."

CGI's HRM solution, used by over 650 customers in 19 countries, offers a
comprehensive set of integrated functional modules covering all the areas
of payroll and human resource management: Payroll and Personnel
Administration, Recruitment, Position Management, Workforce Analysis,
Training Management, Career Development, Time and Attendance, Compensation
and Benefits Administration.

CGI

CGI is an international software and professional services company. CGI's
expertise includes application development technology, professional
services and software solutions. An integral part of IBM, CGI is the
dedicated AD center. CGI had sales of $435M in 1995 and employs 4,500
people worldwide.

COGNOS

Cognos is the global leader in providing business intelligence software to
satisfy enterprise-wide data access and analysis needs. With over 250,000
seats in thousands of companies worldwide, PowerPlay and Impromptu
consistently service the widest range of users across corporate,
departmental, workgroup, personal and mobile applications. The products
support over 100 relational and OLAP data sources and are available in
seven major languages. Cognos Business Intelligence products are sold
through the company's 40 sales offices and over 450 resellers around the
globe.

Cognos develops, markets and supports -- both directly and through
resellers worldwide -- advanced client/server tools for data access, data
analysis and application development on a wide range of open and
proprietary computing platforms. Cognos is a publicly held company with
dual headquarters in Ottawa, Canada and Burlington, MA. Cognos' World Wide
Web address is http://www.cognos.com.

Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate and
product information are available on Cognos' World Wide Web (WWW) site, at
http://www.cognos.com and at PR Newswire's site at
http://www.prnewswire.com. Product and company information can also be
found at the Cognos CompuServe forum (GO COGNOS).
 
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