COGNOS AND INGRAM TEAM TO INCREASE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE DISTRIBUTION
CHANNELS

-- Market Expansion and Increased Demand for Cognos Products Lead to
Agreement --

BURLINGTON, Mass., June 5, 1995 -- Cognos (NASDAQ:COGNF; TSE:CSN) today
announced that Ingram Micro will distribute Impromptu and PowerPlay,
Cognos' market-leading business intelligence products. Ingram, the world's
leading microcomputer products distributor, will stock and supply
Impromptu and PowerPlay to systems integrators, VARs and certified
resellers across the United States.

"This agreement clearly demonstrates the explosive growth of our products
and business intelligence tools overall, " said Jean-Pierre Jauvin,
director of business development, Cognos Business Intelligence products.
"With market sales in this area growing at 70 percent last year and our
sales growing at a rate twice that, an increasing number of resellers and
systems integrators require ready access to Cognos products. Teaming up
with Ingram ensures that we can efficiently meet the demand for Impromptu
and PowerPlay."

"By offering Cognos Business Intelligence products, we are able to give our
customers information tools that are easy to deploy, readily accepted, and
scaleable for one to 1,000+ users," said Amy Hoffman, Ingram vice
president of product marketing, "We recognize the strong and growing
demand in the business intelligence market for tools like Impromptu and
PowerPlay."

The agreement complements Cognos' recently announced Channel Partners
program expansion, which has targeted an increase in the number of
certified resellers from approximately 250 to over 1,000. Company revenues
for Impromptu, an interactive data access, query and reporting tool, and
PowerPlay, a multidimensional data analysis tool, increased from $16
million to $42 million (Cdn.) last year, prompting broader distribution
efforts.

Ingram Micro, with headquarters in Santa Ana, CA is the world's largest
wholesale distributor of microcomputer products. The company's inventory
includes 30,000 products from more than 850 of the worlds' leading
hardware and software companies. It sells to 70,000 reseller customers in
120 countries, and operates international subsidiaries in Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden
and the United Kingdom, and a majority interest in Mexico's leading
distributor, Ingram Dicom. Servicing additional worldwide locations
through export offices in Santa Ana; Miami; Brussels; Belgium; and
Singapore, Ingram Micro's international division fulfills orders from
exporters and foreign customers in Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America.
Ingram Micro exceeded $4 billion in sales in 1993.

Cognos is uniquely positioned to deliver business intelligence software to
satisfy enterprise-wide data access and reporting needs. With over 100,000
seats in thousands of companies, PowerPlay and Impromptu consistently
service the widest range of users across corporate, department, workgroup,
personal, and mobile applications. The products support over 100
relational and OLAP data sources and are translated in eight languages.
Cognos Business Intelligence products are available through the company's
45 sales offices and over 250 resellers worldwide.

Cognos develops, markets and supports -- both directly and through
resellers worldwide - advanced client/server development and reporting
tools on a wide range of open and proprietary platforms, including UNIX
and Microsoft Windows desktop. Cognos is a publicly held company with dual
headquarters in Ottawa, Canada and Burlington, Mass.

Cognos
Burlington, MA
617-229-6600

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