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Antonietta Iafrate

Cognos, 781-313-2454

Chris Drosdick

JC Technology Solutions, 330-656-3040

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John Lawlor

Cognos, 613-738-1440

JC TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PARTNERS WITH COGNOS® TO SUPPLY BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS TO CUSTOMERS

JCTS to provide comprehensive, time sensitive solutions to companies seeking answers to difficult data and information management problems

HUDSON, OH, November 01, 2001 – JC Technology Solutions (JCTS), an approach-based systems integrator, today announced it has chosen to partner with Cognos^â (Nasdaq:COGN;TSE:CSN), the leading global provider of business intelligence solutions. JCTS will leverage business intelligence (BI) solutions from Cognos to help companies harness the power of information to make better business decisions, resulting in reduced costs and enhanced operating performance.

Cognos DecisionStream, Cognos PowerPlay®, and Cognos Impromptu® are now available to all JCTS clients as part of the company’s consulting services. JCTS selected Cognos for the scalable and comprehensive nature of its products. The combined solution enhances JCTS’ ability to meet the business intelligence needs of its customers, allowing them to quickly identify the most effective solution to their specific data management problems.

“Cognos provides the only single-vendor, end-to-end business intelligence solution required by many of our clients,” said Jon Drosdick, president of JC Technology Services. “The combination of Cognos business intelligence solutions and NES’ market expertise puts critical business performance information at the users’ fingertips providing them the in-depth information our customers need to make informed, effective business decisions.”

JCTS serves a broad cross-section of clients throughout Ohio and Atlanta in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, retail, and financial services.

“Customers will reap the benefits of shortened time to result by deploying solutions based on the combination of quality, market-proven business intelligence products and services offered by Cognos and JCTS,” said Ted Jandl, Cognos area vice president of North American partner channel sales. “With JCTS’ strengths in implementation and consulting, combined with Cognos’ business intelligence technology, customers will derive a complete solution to address their reporting and analytics needs.”

ABOUT COGNOS

Cognos is the leading global provider of business intelligence solutions that optimize the performance of the world’s largest and most successful organizations. Founded in 1969, Cognos does business with more than 18,000 customers in more than 120 countries around the world. Cognos 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 http://www.cognos.com.

ABOUT JC TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

JC Technology Solutions, headquartered in Hudson, Ohio is an approach-based systems integrator with 20 employees. JC Technology Solutions focuses on the middle-market, helping customers with Packaged Solutions, eBusiness, Customer Relationship Management and IT Management Solutions.

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