Cognos and LCI partner to provide HPe3000 Migration Solutions

Minneapolis, Minnesota – July 12, 2002 - Cognos (NASDAQ: COGN; TSE; CSN), a leading global provider of application development intelligence solutions, has signed an agreement with LCI, a full service IT Consulting Firm, to deliver HPe3000 Migration Services.  By combining LCI’s extensive HPe3000 experience with Cognos’ powerful migration tools, LCI and Cognos will help to assure that PowerHouse™ users will maximize the return on their applications investment while providing a smooth migration to the server platform of their choice.  LCI’s trained and highly dedicated staff is fully ready to provide complete migration services with Cognos' PowerHouse™ product line to UNIX, OpenVMS, Windows 2000, and Windows NT platforms.

This business alliance is specifically designed to address the needs of the HPe3000 community.

As part of its Migration Services, LCI offers its clients “Assessment 3000^™“, a structured audit of ALL current MPE applications centered upon making detailed recommendations on what functionality to adapt to new platforms and a precise plan to map or convert existing data forward.  

For more information about LCI-3000 Migration Solutions, contact Brian Hallman, VP of Business Development, at (763) 425-1141. 

About LCI:

Since 1988, LCI has been providing Monitoring, Support, Development, and MPE consulting services.  LCI is the leading MPE Consulting Firm in the Upper-Midwest.  LCI helps businesses increase reliability and uptime of critical MPE environments, while also reducing the overall cost of operations.  These services are designed to provide an always-on application environment that reduces overall support costs, resulting in a 30% or more reduction in application administration costs.  LCI is based in Osseo, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.

About Cognos:

Cognos is the global leader in application development and business intelligence (BI) software.  Founded in 1969, Cognos does business with more than 17,000 customers in 120 countries around the world.  For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://powerhouse.cognos.com and www.cognos.com.

 
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