CBH Consultants Recognized as a Key Cognos Strategic Partner at Global Partner Summit 2005

Orlando, FL, June 27, 2005 — Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN), the recognized world leader in Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM), announced the winners of its 2005 Global Partner Awards. While Cognos is honoring many partners across North America, Latin America, and Europe, there are an elite few that have excelled at innovation, influence, and thought-leadership. CBH Consultants (CBH) was recognized as reaching this level of performance and received the Platinum and Rising Star Awards.

“We are pleased to honor these organizations not only for their high levels of success and industry expertise, but also for helping customers derive value and benefits from our solutions across various industries, applications, and geographic locations,” said Ben Plummer, vice president, Global Partner Development, Cognos.

To achieve this CBH focuses on customer satisfaction and strategic account management as a core business philosophy which provides insight into their customers business, processes, and practices. By continuing to build-out these core strengths and skills CBH is better able to help customers achieve their vision of CPM.

Winning Criteria:

• Platinum Award: Honors CBH Consultant for their roles in Cognos’ ongoing channel success and recognized them for their success with the Cognos solution based on understanding the technology, sales performance, and value-add.
• Rising Star Award: Honors CBH Consultants for breaking new ground in solutions, business model, or attainment of market share and/or revenue.

“Our focus is on customer satisfaction. Our client growth, retention, and this recognition are indicators that CBH is the market leader and has chosen the right strategic direction. By achieving this goal we are building a foundation for success not just for CBH, but for our customers as well,” said Joe Baird, CEO, CBH Consultants.

About CBH Consultants - CBH Consultants, Inc. delivers corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence (BI) solutions that give companies the power to make critical business decisions faster, with greater confidence, at every level. Many Fortune 1000 and Midmarket companies throughout North America are running faster, smarter and more effectively with the help of CBH. Headquartered in Orange County CA, with offices in San Diego, San Francisco, and Dallas CBH designs solutions for Planning, Scorecarding, and Business Intelligence for financial reporting and consolidation. CBH has partnerships with Cognos Corporation and Microsoft Business Solutions. The CBH team includes financial, implementation and development professionals who specialize in performance measurement.

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