"With the recent proliferation of security breaches from companies in
numerous industries, now more than ever organizations are recognizing the need
to protect their most valuable assets: their internal data," said Tery Larrew,
President and CEO of Vericept. "By expanding our partnership with IBM, we are increasing
our ability to reach these companies with solutions to improve corporate
performance measurement and management.

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ABOUT IBM PartnerWorld Industry Networks:
The IBM PartnerWorld Industry Networks provide ISVs with comprehensive
business insight, technical resources, networking opportunities, and marketing
and sales support designed to help them reach more customers and close deals
faster.
Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage -- Corporate
Performance Management (CPM) -- achieved through the strategic application of
BI on an enterprise scale.com

Investor Relations:
John Lawlor
Cognos, 613-738-3503
john.

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"The new release provides the granularity
to assign HIPAA monitoring to the right individuals and also helps in
identifying other events taking place inside our network which I wouldn't have
been able to determine before.

"With over 2 million workstations being monitored, Vericept is a
significant player in the Outbound Content Compliance (OCC) market," said
Brian Burke, Research Manager for Security Products at IDC . "Vericept's 7. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive
performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and
understand performance through business intelligence .
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries.iafrate@cognos.

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1, I have better visibility into the
Internet activities across our network which allows me to assess the
information and determine the necessary actions that I need to take regarding
events that are potentially causing risk to our compliance and governance
standards.0274. -- Joins IBM PartnerWorld Industry Networks and ISV Advantage Initiative
Enabling Customers to Quickly Respond to Changing Market Opportunities on
Demand --

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1 platform from Vericept has made a real difference in
ensuring an effective HIPAA monitoring policy," said Phillip Ogle, System
Security Analyst for HealthSouth.1 is addressing the key requirements for customers in the
enterprise OCC space.

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New Vericept 7. Drill down to a finite level through
the creation of Super Categories (based on any combination of existing
categories, keywords, patterns, IP addresses or ranges of IP
addresses, time of day or day of week and more) and build categories
at the speed of business.

* Exception-Based Monitoring: Make exceptions to the general monitoring
rules and define who, what and when monitoring occurs .

* Event Priority Settings: Set different priority levels to categories
depending on the criticality of the information breach. "Cognos enables clients to achieve a
complete, end -to-end view of their enterprise, gaining critical insight to
maximize business efficiency and profitability , resulting in improved on
demand corporate performance management.

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* Time-Based Monitoring: Monitor categories according to the time of day
and day of week.com/

Media Contacts:
Antonietta Iafrate
Cognos, 781-313-2454
antonietta.

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* The Vericept Category Builder(TM): Vericept's Category Builder is the
first of its kind in the market . For example, allow the Compliance Manager to
receive immediate alerts about violations to SOX, HIPAA, GLBA or CA SB
1386, and the HR Manager to instantly know when acts against the
Acceptable Use Policy have occurred.

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, Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN;
TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance
management (CPM), today announced it has achieved industry optimized status in
IBM's PartnerWorld Industry Networks.
Customers are seeking solutions that can help them better integrate
processes and applications and allow them to quickly respond to changing
market opportunities -- all key elements in transforming to an On Demand
business."
"Performance management is vital in the government and insurance
industries today -- helping organizations turn strategy into action.
ISVs can sign up for PartnerWorld Industry Networks at
http://www.

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"With Vericept 7.
Vericept is the only solution on the market that allows a company to provide
finite details for creating granular levels of policy control through our
Category Builder(TM) right out of the box.

"The new 7."

About Vericept Corporation
Vericept Corporation is the leading provider of Intelligent Compliance and
Content Protection Solutions.
With Cognos performance management software, financial services
organizations can enable enterprise risk management, deliver customer-centric
products and services, reduce operational costs, and build trust by addressing
compliance issues. Cognos can address a number of the most crucial issues facing
manufacturers and distributors of insurance products and services, such as
Web-enabling distribution channels, improving customer service and product
speed to market, enhancing claims processing, and improving access to
information by both agents and customers.
"Cognos allows organizations to leverage their existing applications in
order to provide managers with more insight into their business performance
across the government and insurance industries," said Buell Duncan, general
manager, ISV + Developer Relations, IBM. Cognos
enterprise business intelligence solutions and services are also available
from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers.

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Vericept's 7. Designed for any-sized organization to manage
the business risk inherent in Internet and electronic communications that can
lead to business disruption, Vericept 's intelligent content monitoring
platform enables an organization to prevent losses to valuable information
assets and protect its brand and reputation.

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1 intelligent and adaptive control platform which enables
comprehensive control of advanced data management, monitoring policies and
investigation management .1, companies now have the
ability to protect their corporate data at the most granular levels of detail. Cognos also announced it has joined IBM's ISV Advantage
Initiative, a program designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs)
with technical and marketing support to help meet the specific information
technology needs of small and medium business (SMB) companies.

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Vericept is a privately held company headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Cognos' solutions , leveraging the industry-leading database infrastructure
layer provided by IBM DB2 Universal Database , offer the benefit of flexible,
intuitive data access tools integrated with an efficient, automated data
management process.
In addition, Cognos performance management software can allow public
sector officials to improve visibility into performance across their agencies,
tie program success to budget allocation, and increase responsiveness and
organizational effectiveness. ISVs who have attained one or more Industry Optimized
competencies have successfully integrated with on demand IBM infrastructure
software and hardware and demonstrated success with customers in the
industries they note.com

Don Jennings
Lois Paul + Partners, 781-782-5756
don_jennings@lpp .

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* Automated routing of events: Assign and route captured data to
specified individuals.

A typical Cognos-IBM solution includes components from
the Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) Series, which brings
together a broad range of BI capabilities including managed reporting,
analysis, ad hoc query, scorecarding, visualization, and event detection.cognos .
Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.

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This new platform provides Vericept customers with
the most granular level of content protection available on the market today. Record all system activity for review by auditors including
who had access to the system, what configuration settings were
changed, any tried deletions of captured events, who accessed what
events , and more.

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Vericept's unique contextual
linguistics engine provides never before seen visibility to multiple forms of
business risk including regulation compliance violations, corporate governance
concerns, internal policy infractions, information leaks, and unacceptable
Internet use across all forms of Internet traffic, including Web, email, chat,
IM, P2P, FTP, bulletin board postings and telnet in real-time without
requiring an increase in resources.com or call 800.

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1 control and protection platform provides a new approach to
internal protection by providing intelligent, accurate and adaptive content
control in the following areas:

New Suite of Adaptive Monitoring Policies
Enterprises and organizations now have the ability to control and define
their own monitoring environment specifically based upon exactly how, what and
when they want to monitor.1 , Vericept has also enhanced the investigation management
functionality to include advanced data mining , annotation ability, audit
trails and case files.

* Advanced Data Mining: Perform a freeform search on captured data based
on any metadata, content, keywords or attachments utilizing Boolean
logic (and/or . Attach questions or comments to
an event and have the ability to review without disturbing any
possible forensic evidence.

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

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* Annotations: Make notes to an event without disturbing the original
state of the captured communication.

* Audit Trail: Ensure the integrity of the system and information
captured. Cognos can now take advantage of IBM's
sales, marketing and technical expertise to develop and deliver on demand
solutions that meet customer requirements in the government and insurance
industries. In addition, Cognos is helping the public sector make effective
use of the Internet for distributing and sharing information. Because
we are providing value-added components to the IBM's PartnerWorld Industry
Networks, these industries can benefit from increased return on investment
with Cognos' solutions," said Patrick O'Leary, vice president , strategic
alliances, Cognos.

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Vericept Announces Intelligent and Adaptive Protection Platform

1 Platform Delivers Comprehensive Protection for Enterprise
Content Monitoring

DENVER, Vericept Corporation, the leading provider
of Intelligent Compliance and Content Protection Solutions, today announced
its new Vericept 7. As the leader in information privacy and
compliance management, Vericept monitors more than 2 million workstations
across almost 600 customers worldwide.262.

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will provide customers and prospects with detailed policy controls and
monitoring capabilities that were not previously available in this market and
as a result , 7. Governments are
also employing e-business strategies to help reduce infrastructure IT costs
and break down barriers to communications between departments -- and across
communities.lawlor@cognos .

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authorized individuals to communicate about confidential information
or participate in specified Internet activity without being monitored. With 7.

Cognos Chooses IBM to Help Deliver On Demand Solutions to Meet Government and Insurance Industry Customer Needs

Cognos effectively addresses the critical business
requirements of developers and distributors of insurance products and
services.

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* Case Files: Group and store events under investigation. Participants in the PartnerWorld Industry Networks can team with IBM
to bring on demand solutions to market more easily and to ensure these
solutions meet specific industry needs, reflecting how customers buy
technology today. All other
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Note to Editors: Copies of previous Cognos press releases and Corporate
and product information are available on the Cognos Web site at
http://www.

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vericept. Today, governments are using Cognos to help
increase the quality of service to taxpayers, make the streets safer, deliver
quality housing, and improve education programs for children.ibm. For more information,
visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.com.