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Cognos partner LETS signs Major Contract with United Industries Company

Selected as vendor to implement Cognos Corporate Performance Management (CPM)

Downstream Industries Giant to Work With Cognos Gold Reseller Partner

Kuwait City, Kuwait: Leading Edge Technology Services (LETS), a Cognos Gold Reseller Partner, recently announced that United Industries Company ( UIC ) has selected LETS as one of the vendors to implement Cognos Corporate Performance Management (CPM).

UIC , a Kuwaiti shareholding company and member of the KIPCO Group, concentrates its investment - coordinated by a carefully designed restructuring plan - in the downstream industries sector. The company seeks to leverage selected investment opportunities and to enter into industrial projects that offer promising potentials in the medium and long terms. Such targets are pursued especially vigorously in the energy and food sectors, requiring specialist systems and software.

UIC 's decision to implement Cognos CPM through LETS was based in part on the personnel working for the latter. LETS employs skilled and experienced Cognos consultants, combining business and IT backgrounds, and domain expertise.

Abdul Kader Pattillath, Group IT Manager at UIC explained: "We wanted a flexible technology solution that would deliver critical business information from a multi-user platform that could be shared between departments and customised to meet the individual user's needs. It is very critical especially in our business domain to be proactive and able to access information to achieve our objective."

"The strength of the Cognos CPM solution will enable business users across the company to have 'One Version of the Truth' and we needed a powerful CPM tool that was flexible and user-friendly to allow us quick access to data and to measure the performance of the company," added Pattillath.

"Cognos is a major strategic partner in our initiative to achieve substantial growth in the region. This win has provided a foundation for further growth in the Kuwait market," said Kishore Kumar. S.N., Cognos Practice Manager, LETS.

"We thank UIC for their trust in both us and Cognos. We strive to provide quality services to all our customers and consider UIC to be our business partner, working closely to meet our common ambitions. LETS is more than capable of realising this goal, completing the project on time and as planned," added Kishore.

"A contract such as this represents continued confidence in our methodology and the quality of the solutions we provide. At Cognos we are extremely proud of our success in putting customers on the path to effective performance management," said Derek Morrison, Regional General Manager.

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About Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN):
Cognos, a leader in business intelligence and corporate performance management, delivers software and services that help 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 23,000 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.

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