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Cognos Solutions Offered Over The Descartes Network

The Descartes Systems Group Inc, a leading provider of collaborative logistics management technology, announced that Cognos' award-winning query, analysis and reporting solutions are available to participants on the Descartes Global Logistics Services Network. Cognos is a leading provider of business intelligence solutions.

The Descartes Network is a central communications infrastructure for the supply chains of many Fortune 500 enterprises and the global logistics community. Millions of logistics-related messages are exchanged via the Descartes Network each month to provide companies with real-time visibility into their supply chains. These messages are also recorded in the Network's data repositories. Cognos' PowerPlay and Impromptu solutions provide a means of querying the information about actual logistics activities that take place throughout a company's supply chain over the Descartes Network, and analyzing the performance of their supply chain to identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks.

"The Cognos solutions offer our customers and their trading partners a fast and effective way to access information from the Descartes Network and analyze the overall performance of their supply chains," said Beth Enslow, senior vice president of Product Strategy at Descartes. "The capabilities we provide to our customers across the Network include supply chain event monitoring, real-time logistics execution, logistics planning and optimization, and supply chain analytics. With the Cognos solutions, we extend enhanced analytic capabilities to our customers, providing them with the tools they need to further create highly optimized and collaborative supply chains."

"The Descartes Global Logistics Services Network holds an incredible amount of information and a high level of detail about the logistics activities that take place throughout a company's supply chain," said Ted Jandl, vice president at Cognos. "Cognos provides decision support tools over the Descartes Network to help companies tap into the wealth of information available to them to effectively analyze the logistics activities and overall performance of their supply chains."

About Cognos

Cognos is a 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 17,000 customers in 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 www.cognos.com.

About Descartes

Descartes Systems Group is a leading provider of network-based collaborative logistics management technology. Descartes offers more than 30 network-based applications and services and a worldwide supply chain infrastructure built to facilitate highly efficient trading partner collaboration.

The Descartes Global Logistics Services Network connects thousands of companies globally from a range of industries, including automotive, chemical, consumer packaged goods, financial services, healthcare, high tech, postal, retail, telecommunications, and transportation and logistics.

Established in 1981, Descartes is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with offices and distributors located throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. For more information about Descartes, visit www.descartes.com.

Contact Descartes Systems Group, Public Relations, Annette Van Gerwen, 519-746-6114 x2208, avangerwen@descartes.com.