PEOPLESOFT, INC., TO BUNDLE COGNOS POWERPLAY WITH PEOPLESOFT APPLICATIONS

COGNOS WILL ALSO INTEGRATE ITS IMPROMPTU DATABASE REPORTING TOOL WITH
PEOPLESOFT APPLICATIONS

BURLINGTON, MASS., APRIL 1, 1996 -- Cognos (NASDAQ:COGNF;TSE:CSN) today
announced an agreement with PeopleSoft, Inc., under which PeopleSoft will
bundle Cognos' industry-leading online analytical processing (OLAP) tool,
PowerPlay, with PeopleSoft applications. Under the agreement, PeopleSoft
will deliver the world's most popular tool for analyzing complex,
multidimensional corporate data to every PeopleSoft customer. This will
enable managers to make better business decisions, faster, with PeopleSoft
applications, by giving them the ability to easily analyze and understand
the data that is collected and managed by those applications. Financial
terms of the relationship were not disclosed.

PeopleSoft selected PowerPlay after extensive, worldwide competitive
evaluation. With more than 140,000 seats installed worldwide, PowerPlay is
the leading OLAP, or multi-dimensional analysis, tool on the desktops of
managers in Global 2000 companies. PowerPlay delivers a rich, Windows
95-compliant graphical environment that allows users to drill up or down
and "slice-and-dice" through data, allowing decision makers to understand
what drives their business.

As a complement to the PowerPlay/PeopleSoft bundle, Cognos will integrate
its award-winning Impromptu query and reporting software with PeopleSoft's
applications. This will be accomplished through pre-defined Impromptu
HeadStarts catalogs that will give PeopleSoft users the ability to quickly
implement Impromptu, InfoWorld's "Product of the Year," as their
enterprise database reporting tool.

"After a rigorous competitive evaluation, PeopleSoft chose to deliver
PowerPlay as its desktop OLAP solution, reinforcing Cognos' status as the
leader in the business intelligence market," said Alan Rottenberg, senior
vice president, Cognos Business Intelligence Products. "Our partnership
with PeopleSoft, one of the leading providers of enterprise client/server
business applications, advances our strategy to make business intelligence
software an integral part of every manager's daily activity."

"PowerPlay is a robust, proven product from a recognized leader in business
intelligence tools, and PeopleSoft customers will benefit by the
integration of this leading desktop OLAP tool into PeopleSoft
applications," said Rick Bergquist, Peoplesoft's vice president of
technology. "We are also delighted that Cognos will integrate its
Impromptu query and reporting software with our applications."

With PowerPlay, PeopleSoft users will have powerful tools to analyze
enterprise-wide business-critical information by looking at data in
multiple dimensions. For example, a purchasing agent could evaluate vendor
performance in terms of pricing, delivery times, return rates and quality
to make informed procurement decisions. With Impromptu, reports can be
automatically delivered each day to managers, or managers can instantly
obtain data they are authorized to see in the format they require.

PEOPLESOFT

PeopleSoft Inc. (NASDAQ: PSFT) was established in 1987 to provide
innovative software solutions that meet the changing business needs of
enterprises worldwide. A client/server applications pioneer and market
share leader, PeopleSoft develops, markets, and supports a complete suite
of enterprise solutions for accounting, materials management,
distribution, manufacturing, and human resources. PeopleSoft's innovative
use of technology empowers individuals to make informed decisions and
manage constant change. With several hundred Fortune 1000 customers around
the world, the company has been recognized for both its award-winning
customer service and remarkable growth. PeopleSoft was listed by Fortune
Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America in 1994 and
1995, and by Forbes Magazine as one of the best small companies in America
in 1994. PeopleSoft product and service information is located on the
World Wide Web at http://www.peoplesoft.com, via fax-on-demand at
1-800/296-0937, or by calling 1-800/947-7753.

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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