For more information about Oracle Business Intelligence 10g, call
800-ORACLE1 or visit our Web site at http://www. It eliminates the SPAM that normally occurs with first-generation
alerting technology by only notifying users when there has been a change to
the status of the event. The focus of our partnership continues to be on delivering
increased business value to customers by providing fast, easy access to
critical information with a lower total cost of ownership.

PRESS RELEASE Steelwedge Enterprise Planning +amp; Performance Management Suite Drives Operational Alignment

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According to the brief, Oracle's Enhanced BI Tools Impress Business Users
and Cost-conscious CIOs, December 2004, Jacqueline Coolidge, Research
Director , AMR Research, wrote, "With enhanced functionality and a streamlined
UI throughout the suite, Oracle BI tools have come a long way.

"The ultimate goal is to
provide more users with timely access to better, more consistent information -
- while at the same time reducing costs. The new features should provide our users
with better visibility into plans, the ability to compare plans to actuals and
take appropriate action in a very timely manner."

"Manufacturers today have to deal with a manual and ad-hoc planning process
that results in plans that do not come together because they were created
in organizational silos with incorrect assumptions around revenue, margins
and unit shipments," said Timothy Campbell, President and CEO of
Steelwedge. We are getting significant interest
from leading manufacturers, especially those in technology, communications
infrastructure and specialty chemicals, who want to improve forecast
accuracy, align business and operational plans , accelerate planning cycles,
lower inventory levels and improve customer delivery rates. Steelwedge Demand and Forecast Planning (D&FP) -- The Steelwedge D&FP
solution provides an intuitive Excel based front-end solution through which
the cross-functional forecasting process can be automated. Steelwedge Sales Pipeline Intelligence (SPI) -- The Steelwedge SPI
solution analyzes sales pipeline changes (waterfall analysis) with
drill-downs to perform root cause analysis; delivers real time exceptions
and alerts to sales pipeline changes over pre-defined thresholds and
provide scorecards to measure sales team performance and commitments.

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With Cognos 8 BI, we are redefining
enterprise business intelligence -- providing a solid BI foundation for
companies demanding a simpler path to complete corporate performance
management. actual can be easily created, as can alerts that
track budget variances and proactively notify management before any damage is
done. "The integration of
analysis capabilities with Cognos Planning is fantastic and allows for the
instantaneous creation of cubes .
Cognos and the Cognos logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Cognos Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.

"The Steelwedge EPPM suite leveraged our investment in SAP and enabled us
to move from planning in disconnected organizational silos to a
collaborative planning process," said Seema Phull, Director of Process and
Technology at Enterasys Networks, a global provider of Secure Networks for
enterprise customers. EPPM
then drives a closed loop planning process by supporting an enterprise-wide
budgeting and financial planning process that directly ties to the demand
plan and drives a proforma Profit & Loss statement. It leverages technology that
analyzes and filters sales pipeline data for forecast inclusion or
exclusion and incorporates account manager bias and trends.

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ReportNet is the fastest-selling product in Cognos history,
generating more than $235 million in license revenue through Q1FY06 and now in
use by more than 2,500 customers worldwide . Key performance targets are derived directly from the
plans and can be applied automatically and seamlessly to the scorecards," said
Vivian Adashek, manager, US Finance, Manpower, Inc. Cognos
enterprise business intelligence solutions and services are also available
from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers.com

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The
Louisiana Office of Group Benefits' performance is by design using an advanced
BI system that helps its managers and actuary head monitor the health plan's
financial health and forecast future opportunities for efficiency.

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Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates.
"In a survey for TDWI's recent study , Enterprise Business Intelligence:
Strategies and Technologies for Deploying BI on an Enterprise Scale, 66% of
respondents indicated that they desired to transform departmental BI into an
enterprise -standard solution," said Wayne Eckerson, director of research and
services for The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI). Agents can even be created to monitor the status of plan and budget
completion .

"Cognos provides us with cutting-edge technology and Cognos 8 BI continues
that standard of excellence," said Sherry Neubert, development manager,
Enterprise Data Warehouse, The Goodyear Tire + Rubber Company. The result is a cross-functional enterprise-wide
plan-of-record (PoR)."

About the Steelwedge EPPM Suite

The Steelwedge EPPM suite includes:

1. It uses
Component level forecasting that links independent and dependent demand and
historical attach rate trend analysis to forecast product option and time
phased (dynamic) attach rates for configure to order products . The Steelwedge S&OP solution incorporates
supply-demand balancing, scenario planning, rough cut capacity planning,
workflow, meeting facilitation and issue tracking.

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Louisiana's second-largest health insurance company, Louisiana Office of Group
Benefits is financially strong with revenues exceeding $1 billion. Oracle BI is
also included with Oracle Application Server 10g Enterprise Edition . It features
award-winning BI tools from ad-hoc query, reporting and analysis to Extract,
Transform and Load (ETL) to BI application development, and more, in a single,
affordable and comprehensive package.
Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides the complete range of BI
capabilities in a single product, on a single architecture. While competing solutions require separate tools to view
different types of data, Cognos 8 BI uniquely delivers a single metadata layer
and a single query engine, providing customers with a single, trusted place
for all relevant data and a complete and consistent view of any business issue
or driver.

Dimensional Reporting and Dynamic Dashboards
Cognos 8 BI's comprehensive reporting capabilities are suitable for
business style and production and business style reports, real-time
dashboards, as well as ad-hoc queries.cognos . In addition to
support for chart of account, role, division and region-specific budget
analysis , RMP supports scenario, what-if, waterfall, cascade and change
analysis and reconciles unit forecasts with revenue, margin and Annual
Operating (AOP) plans.

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, Oracle
(Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced general availability of Oracle(R) Business
Intelligence 10g, a comprehensive, standalone product designed to address the
entire spectrum of analytical requirements facing businesses including query ,
application development, reporting and analysis, data integration and
management.

About Oracle
Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company.
Extended open data access capabilities allow the complete range of BI
functionality -- reporting, analysis, dashboarding , scorecarding and event
management -- to be performed against any organizational data, whether
relational or OLAP, helping to eliminate information silos that can inhibit
decision-making. This
tight integration with BPM solutions makes it easy for users to access
business intelligence as part of an established business process.

Integrated Performance Management
As part of its open data access, Cognos 8 BI capabilities can natively
access Cognos Planning and Consolidation data.cognos. "Steelwedge EPPM suite was specifically developed to enable the
manufacturers who have significant operating and product complexity, to
rapidly create a consensus demand plan. Steelwedge Revenue and Margin Planning (RMP) -- The Steelwedge R&MP
solution enables financial managers to drive a cross-functional drive
expense budgeting process which directly integrates to the overall planning
process and ensures execution to the financial plan.

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"Business
intelligence enables us to provide proper information -- not the data, but the
information to all our employees, to all of our customers , to all our
vendors," said Rizwan Ahmed, Louisiana's CIO of Office of Group Benefits and
Department of Natural Resources. It automatically monitors data and
alerts users in real-time of key operational or performance events -- with
information in context -- via email or Web-based news items through the RSS
channel.cognos.

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"The combination of functionality and competitive pricing of Oracle
Business Intelligence 10g will enable us to aggressively pursue customers
seeking BI solutions. It is also the
only solution to deliver a simplified, zero-footprint interface for all users,
authors and administrators."
In addition to simplifying the deployment of BI with a single product and
architecture , Cognos 8 BI includes many enhancements to streamline the access
to information for improved decision -making:

All BI Capabilities Against Any Data
Cognos 8 BI is the first BI product to eliminate barriers to data access.

Powerful Business Event Management and Process Integration
Based on the proven Cognos alerting capability, Cognos 8 BI offers the
industry's only business event management. Cognos 8 BI
supports operational business intelligence needs by managing the full
lifecycle of the event, escalating actions if the event continues, and closing
the loop as the event completes. For example, users can easily perform ad-hoc queries against
relational or OLAP data, graphically format the result using corporate
templates, and then share the report with colleagues -- without ever involving
skilled report authors or IT."
For more endorsements from Cognos customers, please see today's related
release at http://www.

"Forecast accuracy is one of the most important and advantageous supply
chain metric," said Lora Cecere, Research Director, Supply Chain Planning &
Execution, AMR Research.

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oracle. Now, for example, comparing the top five sales
reps in the bottom five regions, across the top five products, can be done
quickly and easily .html.html
"Building on the successful combination of Cognos ReportNet(TM) and IBM's
DB2 Universal Database, we are pleased to have worked with Cognos on the
development of Cognos 8 BI," said Karen Parrish, vice president, worldwide
business intelligence solutions at IBM. Steelwedge Sales Opportunity Planning (SAOPP) -- The Steelwedge SAOPP
solution translates customer-level sales opportunities into meaningful
product-level demand information to be incorporated into the consensus
demand forecasting and planning process.

7.

About Steelwedge

Steelwedge Software, Inc.

Steelwedge and all Steelwedge product names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Steelwedge Software, Inc. All other company and product
names are trademarks of their respective holders.

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"
"The initial positive customer and analyst reaction to Oracle Business
Intelligence 10g is a clear validation of the significant efforts we've
undertaken to deliver a compelling and comprehensive product," said Ray
Roccaforte, vice president of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing,
Oracle.com/news /releases/2005/0914_8.

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. For more information,
visit the Cognos Web site at http://www. It provides support for complex
product environments including product mix management and dynamic accessory
and component attach rates.com.

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The release of this new product extends Oracle 's leadership in
business analytics and makes it easier for customers to purchase and deploy
enterprise -class business intelligence (BI) solutions.newscom. Add in the
upgraded user experience, and it throws a quick one-two punch at the
competition. "It's proper information that enables us to
do business efficiently."

Product Availability and Pricing
Oracle Business Intelligence 10g is generally available now. This enables decisions to be tracked over time
and provides a formal corporate decision-making memory that will help users
learn from the past when faced with new problems and opportunities. Using Cognos 8 BI, production
reports that show budget vs.

Increased Self-Service
Cognos 8 BI also enables extended self-service across BI capabilities,
alleviating IT resources and allowing users to work with personalized,
consistent information using familiar interfaces that fit their needs and
skills.

Media Contacts:
Steve Milmore
Cognos, 781-313-2403
steve. In addition, our planning process has been
dramatically streamlined -- we have gained more control over the planning
process, eliminated the use of spreadsheets and our analysts are spending
time analyzing information instead of chasing data.

3. Actual to plan progress, margin and inventory metrics, expected
future financial results, KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are made
visible through an interactive executive dashboard which enables executives
to evaluate corporate performance against plan from multiple dimensions
such as product family by region by channel. Founded in 2000, Steelwedge Software
is privately held and located in Pleasanton , California.

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"
Cognos 8 BI is based on the proven and powerful Web Services-based,
service -oriented architecture (SOA) first introduced with Cognos ReportNet(TM)
in 2003. Easy to integrate , deploy and use, Cognos 8 BI
delivers a simplified BI environment that drives high user adoption , enables
better decision-making, and serves as an enterprise-scale technology
foundation for performance management, now and in the future. Also, new chart styles such as
gauges and maps, as well as rich graphical formatting, enable the creation of
more dynamic and high-impact reports and dashboards . Enhancements include the ability to apply compound filters,
nest subsets of information, and compare different levels of information --
all with drag-and-drop ease.

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oracle. With Cognos 8 BI, events can be sequenced, and
through the use of Web services, events can be resolved instantly without user
interaction by automatically launching business processes -- even those that
are part of a larger business process management (BPM) system. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive
performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and
understand performance through business intelligence. It combines looks-like, super cession
and other traditional new product introduction (NPI) approaches with
ground-breaking new product introduction cycle, curvilinear and "looks
like " analysis techniques. Steelwedge Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) -- The Steelwedge S&OP
solution provides the ability to configure and drive an S&OP process that
allows corporate executives to agree on goals that are feasible and
profitable, while improving communications, teamwork and accountability
across the organization.

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Analysis can also be performed against multi-
dimensionally modeled relational data in addition to OLAP data.
Cognos 8 BI is fully process-driven, and Cognos has joined with leading
BPM vendors to enable right-time, process-aware business intelligence.lawlor@cognos .

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com . Cognos
8 BI will be unveiled globally to customers, media and analysts at
simultaneous events today in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto,
Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, London, Munich , Paris, Stockholm, Vienna and Zurich. New in Cognos 8 BI is the ability to
report OLAP data and maintain dimensional awareness, enabling consumers of a
report or dashboard to simply click and drill down to the right level of
information required for decision-making.
Cognos serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries.com.

8.

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Louisiana's Office of Group Benefits Realizes Efficiency with Oracle
Business Intelligence
For years, the State of Louisiana's Office of Group Benefits has
successfully run a self-insured and self-administered health plan for more
than a 250,000 state and public-sector employees and their family.com/news/releases/2005/0914_5 .cognos."

EPPM improves the demand plan by intelligently incorporating key inputs
such as marketing budgets, sales pipeline opportunities and new product
introduction plans.

Steelwedge's breakthrough Enterprise-Enabled Excel technology provides a
highly scaleable enterprise-wide planning platform and delivers a powerful,
easy-to-implement and easy-to-use user solution. "According to our benchmarking research, a
one-point improvement in demand forecast accuracy could yield a two-point
improvement in perfect order performance. Organizations with better
forecasts gain competitive advantage with a 35% shorter cash-to-cash cycle
time.

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For more
information, see today's related release at
http: //www."
"Cognos 8 BI enables reporting and analysis on plans, budgets and
forecasts and also applies business event management to the planning and
budgeting process."
For more endorsements from Cognos technology partners, please see today's
related release at http://www.html
For more endorsements from Cognos OEM partners, please see today's related
release at http://www.

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com /cgi-bin/prnh/20020718/ORCLLOGO )
Oracle Business Intelligence 10g removes the costly and tedious process of
piecing together point solutions by delivering a complete product. - Simple, complete and proven solution accelerates BI standardization
enterprise-wide -

NEW YORK, Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX:
CSN), the world leader in business intelligence and corporate performance
management (CPM), today announced the worldwide launch of Cognos 8 Business
Intelligence, the industry's first product that provides the complete range of
BI functionality on a single, proven Web Services-based architecture.cognos.com/news/releases/2005/0914_6.

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For more
information about Oracle, visit our Web site at http://www.

Cognos Launches Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: First Solution to Deliver Full BI Capabilities in a Single Product on a Single Architecture

The ability of Cognos 8 BI to meet
the needs of a broad range of users with a single product will be attractive
to enterprise BI customers.com/news/releases/2005/0914_7. It provides a
rich range of quantitative forecasting techniques and supports top-down,
bottom-up, and middle-out forecasting .

5.steelwedge.

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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.
"Today, the revolution we initiated with Cognos ReportNet(TM) two years
ago continues," said Rob Ashe, president and CEO, Cognos.

Deep , Comparative Analysis
To simplify the exploration and discovery of information, Cognos 8 BI
makes it easier for users to perform complex analysis, even against very large
data sources.com

Investor Relations:
John Lawlor
Cognos, 613-738-3503
john. The EPPM
suite is used by manufacturers of complex or configured products for
accurately forecasting demand across the enterprise.

2. Steelwedge Product Lifecycle Planning (PLP) -- The Steelwedge PLP
solution provides the ability to model new product forecasts and end of
life forecasts based upon historical trends of similar products, marketing
program plans and what-if scenarios.

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com/bi .

Actionable BI
Scorecarding has been enhanced with advanced initiative tracking, enabling
managers to monitor actions and decisions to correct and improve performance
associated with a key metric. Users can
also now get a quick feel for a metric's trend by simply moving their mouse
over a metric and viewing an advanced history chart.html
For more endorsements from Cognos reseller partners , please see today's
related release at http://www.milmore@cognos.

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Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle(R) Business Intelligence 10g

(Logo: http://www. The cost
benefits alone warrant a second look at Oracle's BI suite. Pricing
for Oracle Business Intelligence 10g is $20,000 per processor or $400 per
named user.

About Oracle Business Intelligence 10g
Oracle Business Intelligence 10g is designed to reduce the cost and
complexity associated with building and deploying BI solutions. With Oracle Business Intelligence 10g,
customers can leverage existing BI infrastructures to extend intelligence to
users enterprise-wide to support accurate business decisions and improve
business performance. "With ReportNet,
Cognos redefined enterprise reporting. "Cognos 8 BI combines the power and
scalability of IBM's middleware with Cognos' proven, easy to use analytics
solutions. "As a result, we were able to improve our forecast
accuracy, move from a quarterly planning cycle to a monthly planning cycle
and significantly reduce our missed-revenue opportunity costs, while
lowering inventory costs. Steelwedge Performance Management (PM) -- The Steelwedge PM solution
provides real-time configurable executive dashboards and multi-dimensional
performance reports which provide a clear picture of how a company is
performing. For more
information, please visit www.

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"The product's
capabilities, ranging from self-service reporting for ad-hoc requests to
operational reporting for key projects, provide an opportunity to accelerate
and simplify our enterprise-wide deployment.html
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is available now as a controlled release
and will be generally available in November.
Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage -- Corporate
Performance Management (CPM) -- achieved through the strategic application of
BI on an enterprise scale. All other
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Leading companies have
implemented the Steelwedge EPPM suite for Demand Forecasting and Planning,
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Revenue and Margin Planning, and Sales
Opportunity Planning on top of popular ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle. Steelwedge Product Configuration Planning (PCP) -- The Steelwedge PCP
solution leverages Steelwedge's patent pending Statistical Bill of
Materials -- sBOM technology to enable operations and supply chain managers
to forecast dependent accessory and configurable products demand.

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The
product comprises the following integrated components:

-- Oracle Discoverer -- query, reporting and analysis with dashboard
features;
-- Oracle Spreadsheet Add-In -- direct access to Oracle OLAP from within
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets;
-- Oracle Warehouse Builder -- robust data quality and ETL functionality;
and,
-- Oracle BI Beans -- custom BI application development. Using the
new release of Oracle Discoverer, Louisiana Office of Group Benefits will
build customized dashboards for its constituents as well as enable access to
both relational and multidimensional data from an Oracle Database. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.cognos.com/news/releases/2005/0914_4 .com

Don Jennings
Lois Paul + Partners, LLC, 781-782-5756
don_jennings@lpp .
Steelwedge Software Inc., the leading
innovator in the emerging field of Enterprise Planning & Performance
Management (EPPM), today announced the Steelwedge EPPM suite. The EPPM suite then leverages the PoR to enable
manufacturers to get an accurate view of their overall performance against
the plan via a rich set of metrics based dashboards and scorecards.

4. is the leading innovator in the emerging field of
Enterprise Planning and Performance Management, helping manufacturing
companies create, validate and synchronize functional plans, actively align
them with business and financial targets, and gain executive visibility and
control over enterprise performance.