Highest acknowledgment for Imtech ICT Eniac Business Intelligence

Nieuwegein – Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN), worldwide leader in solutions for business intelligence and performance management, has granted a Cognos Platinum Reseller Award to its partner Imtech ICT Eniac Business Intelligence (BI). Cognos grants this award annually to a partner who has delivered exceptional performance in implementing and positioning solutions that are based on Cognos’ products.

The Platinum Reseller Award acknowledges the knowledge, expertise and sales succes of Imtech ICT Eniac BI. This company develops powerful and practical applications for customers in different areas by optimal and innovative use of the Cognos solutions. It also offers the Cognos software as part of its projects or as an add-on to ERP solutions. Imtech completes this offer with consultancy and high quality education. In this way Imtech ICT Eniac BI contributes to the improvement of its clients’ internal and external performance.

Investing in knowledge together
Gerlof du Bois, Business Unit Manager at Cognos, stresses the importance of cooperation with partners. “At Cognos we believe in strong cooperation and a joint approach of customers with individual partners. This strategy works. In addition to detailed knowledge of our solutions we see that market knowledge is also essential for succes. We find this knowledge at Imtech ICT Eniac BI which has now been granted the Cognos Platinum Reseller Award.”

Bert Vrielink, director at Imtech ICT Eniac Business Intelligence, is very pleased with the partnership with Cognos and with winning the award. “We regard the Platinum Reseller Award as a token of gratitude for our excellent relationship with Cognos which was established in the past seven years. It is also an acknowledgment of the deep and specialized Cognos expertise of our consultants and a reward for successful implementations at customers. The fact that we continually invest in the knowledge of our consultants and learn from the solutions we realize, gives us a unique position in the partner network of Cognos in the Netherlands.”

About Imtech ICT Eniac
Imtech ICT Eniac BU supports its customers in realizing solutions for Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management. Based on an strong partner relation with market leader Cognos and an pragmatic project approach Imtech ICT Eniac BI designs, develops and manages reporting, analysis scorecard solutions for over 150 customers in retail, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, real estate and services. More information is available on www.imtechict.nl.

About Cognos:
Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, provides world-class enterprise planning and BI software and services to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance.
Cognos brings together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers a complete performance system. The Cognos performance system is an open and adaptive solution that leverages an organization’s ERP, packaged applications, and database investments. It gives customers the ability to answer the questions -- How are we doing? Why are we on or off track? What should we do about it? – and enables them to understand and monitor current performance while planning future business strategies.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries, and its top 100 enterprise customers consistently outperform market indexes. Cognos performance management solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.