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Industry leaders forge partnership supporting the growing corporate demand for predictive capabilities as part of business intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO: JULY 26, 2004 - KXEN, a global provider of predictive and descriptive analytics today announced that it has become a member of the Cognos Technology Partner Program. Through this partnership, business users gain access to latest analytic technology that helps them to automatically explore their business, and identify drivers and influencers.

KXEN has fast become an industry-leading provider of a suite of software components to embed advanced analytics into existing enterprise applications and business processes. Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSX: CSN) is the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management.

Integrating KXEN's powerful IOLAP�, (Intelligent OLAP) will allow Cognos customers to perform meaningful root cause analyses of a data cube by automatically presenting the key variables relevant to the business question at hand. Business users can quickly execute a meaningful yet sophisticated analysis even on large data stores. KXEN also helps identify and select the underlying influencers and variables that affect Key Performance Indicators managed by Cognos Metrics Manager, its industry-leading scorecarding solution.

For more information, visit www.kxen.com .