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Cognos Signs Partnership Agreement With iGATE to Broaden Global Services BURLINGTON, Mass., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, today announced a strategic partnership with integrated technology and operations firm iGATE Global Solutions Limited. Responding to a growing customer base and the mission-critical application of BI, Cognos has augmented its services offerings by joining with iGATE Global, a proven player in the space of business intelligence, analytics and process optimization. The Cognos-certified iGATE teams can take customers from project planning to architecture design to successful deployment and rapid ROI. iGATE brings its considerable domain expertise and analytics-based business optimization skills to improve process efficiencies, drive down costs, and increase revenues and profitability for its clients "Partnering with iGATE, Cognos continues to deliver on our commitment to providing the highest possible level of services and support to our customers. iGATE is focused on delivering dramatically low total cost of ownership for Cognos customers through service excellence and advanced analytical techniques," said Dave Achtemichuk, vice president, Worldwide Customer Services, Cognos, Inc. With the recent announcement of Cognos ReportNet, iGATE along with the entire Cognos services team will be focused on providing high-quality consultant services to the large number of global Cognos ReportNet customers. Designed to scale to 100s of 1,000s of users, Cognos ReportNet solution draws upon Cognos reporting and query leadership, delivering a revolution in reporting. Cognos ReportNet is fully integrated within the Cognos Enterprise BI solution, including flexible scorecards, dashboards, powerful industry- leading OLAP analysis, event detection and alerting, and data integration. "Our broad-based consultant services delivers significant enterprise value for Cognos. IGATE shares Cognos' vision of driving aggressive ROI for enterprise customers through process optimization," said Amit Sethi, Head of Alliances and Business Development, iGATE Global Solutions. "At iGATE we believe that embedding business intelligence and analytics in the processes allows us to deliver a higher value, and we are very pleased to work with the global leader in business intelligence -- one of the fastest growing sectors in the market." Through this partnership, Cognos adds more than 3800 service professionals to the award-winning Cognos services team. About iGATE Global Solutions iGATE Global Solutions is the first fully integrated technology and operations firm with a global services model. iGATE Global enables clients to optimize their business through a combination of process investment strategies, technology leverage and business process outsourcing and provisioning. Services include consulting, enterprise data management and data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics, design, development, system integration, package evaluation and implementation, re-engineering and maintenance. iGATE Global also takes on the responsibility for optimizing and running business processes for clients. The Company has been assessed at SEI-CMM Level 5, follows Six Sigma methodologies and is BS7799 & COBIT certified, ensuring the highest levels of quality and data security. Headquartered in Bangalore, India, iGATE Global is present in 12 countries and maintains development centers in the US, UK, Canada, China, Malaysia, and India. The Company is a subsidiary of iGATE Corporation (NASDAQ:IGTE), a US- headquartered firm founded in 1986. iGATE is registered as a minority-owned business enterprise and is an equal opportunity employer that actively encourages diversity. For more information, please visit http://www.igate.com/ ABOUT COGNOS Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management, delivers software that helps companies drive, monitor and understand corporate performance. Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage -- Corporate Performance Management (CPM) -- achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale. Our integrated CPM solution helps customers drive performance through planning; monitor performance through scorecarding; and understand performance through business intelligence. Cognos serves more than 22,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence and 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/. Media Contacts: Tanya Pobuda Cognos, 613-738-1440 Don Jennings Lois Paul & Partners, LLC 781-782-5756 Investor Relations: John Lawlor Cognos, 613-738-3503 DATASOURCE: Cognos CONTACT: Media, Tanya Pobuda of Cognos, +1-613-738-1440; or Don Jennings of Lois Paul & Partners, LLC, +1-781-782-5756; or Investor Relations, John Lawlor of Cognos, +1-613-738-3503 Web site: http://www.cognos.com/ http://www.igate.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/107867.html

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