Nstein Technologies Joins Cognos Global Partner Program

2004-02-04

Nstein to provide Cognos' customers with mining and reporting technology solutions that discover vital information within unstructured data

Montreal, Canada, February 4th, 2004 - Nstein Technologies (TSX-V: EIN) today announced it has joined the Cognos Partner Program (CPP) as a Technology Partner. Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, has created a powerful network of companies dedicated to best practices in business intelligence and enterprise planning. These partnerships are central to helping Cognos' customers maximize their technology investments and unlock the power of corporate performance management. Cognos Technology Partners provide complementary technologies to Cognos customers.

By combining Nstein's technology solutions to Cognos' current offering, organizations will be able to explore their vast amount of unstructured data and apply transformations to their data to produce new insights. These insights can be analytical or predictive, and may support decisions as well as automation. Nstein's technology is easy to integrate within a corporate performance management system to perceive trends like never before and produce superior key business performance indicators and other management metrics.

"Combining Nstein's technical capabilities with the Cognos solution enables new value for our clients worldwide," said Rob Rose, Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Business Development, Cognos. "Nstein software unlocks access to information, previously unavailable for corporate performance management systems."

"We are extremely proud to partner with Cognos, the world leader in corporate performance management and business intelligence. This partnership brings an innovative complement to Cognos solutions in terms of early warning signals, indicators of trends and other industry-centric types of alerts so critical and valuable for business executives," said Mario Girard, President and CEO of Nstein Technologies. "This partnership undoubtedly brings tremendous opportunities for Nstein and its award-winning technology".

"With Nstein's unique content management indexing and concept extraction software products, we are positioned to offer Cognos customers discovery and analytics technology solutions to leverage the untapped value of unstructured information in an organization," said Laurent Proulx, SVP and CTO of Nstein Technologies.

About Nstein Technologies 

Nstein Technologies develops and markets innovative and industry-proven content management indexing and concept extraction technology solutions that generate superior business intelligence and enable information-intensive organizations to discover new business opportunities as well as increase productivity, solve mission-critical business problems and secure competitive advantages. Nstein's technology solutions leverage the value of unstructured information and create knowledge capital for customers within the e-publishing, financial, legal, government and homeland security markets. Nstein is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with sales offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Boston and Philadelphia. Nstein is a public company listed on the TSX Canadian Venture Exchange (EIN). For more information please visit our Web site at: www.nstein.com.

About the Cognos Partner Program

The Cognos Partner Program (CPP) is a global network of companies that delivers innovative corporate performance management solutions based on Cognos solutions. Through access to Cognos" industry-leading products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the CPP supplies partners with the resources they need to increase revenue and market share, expand their business, and lower their costs. Cognos partners are able to offer customers best-in-class solutions backed by Cognos" position as the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management. For more information on the CPP please visit our Web site at: www.cognos.com/partners/index.html.

About Cognos

Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance.

Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage - Corporate Performance Management (CPM) - achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence.

Cognos serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at: www.cognos.com.

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