CBH Recognized as Cognos Strategic Platinum Partner and North American Partner of the Year at Cognos Forum 2006

Irvine, CA, June 30, 2006 — At the Cognos Partner Summit 2006, CBH was recognized as a Strategic Platinum Reseller and North American Reseller Partner of the Year as part of the Cognos 2006 Global Partner Awards. Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a field of hundreds of entrants. CBH was one of an elite few that have excelled at business development, innovation, influence, and thought-leadership.

"Cognos' broad, global ecosystem of successful partnerships helps our customers drive performance management through a blend of technology, product, and service offerings that best suits their needs,” said Neal Hill, senior vice president, Global Development, Cognos. “Building on our recent innovations such as Cognos 8 BI, performance applications, and industry blueprints, our partners have achieved new successes and demonstrated even greater depth of industry expertise. We are proud to honor CBH for its contributions to helping our customers gain greater visibility and insight into their organizations and drive performance management to the next level."

The Cognos Awards recognizes partners that have developed and delivered exceptional solutions and services during the past year. With Cognos’ recognition that CBH’s solutions are at the forefront, clients are reminded that CBH has unparalleled expertise in delivering Performance Management applications based on Cognos technologies. This recognition identifies CBH as one of the most skilled partners in the Performance Management services and solution arena.

To achieve this elite level, 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 performance management.

Cognos presented CBH with the following awards:

• Platinum Award: Honors CBH for their role in Cognos’ ongoing channel success and recognized them for their success with the Cognos solution based on understanding the technology, and top sales performance.
• Partner of the Year: Recognizes that CBH has set a new standard for partner performance in the area of solution development and deployment, business development, and attainment of market share.

Commenting on the prestigious honors, CBH CEO and Founder Joe Baird said, "In addition to Cognos recognizing that CBH delivers the very best solutions and services in North America this year, this award reinforces our position as the leader in Performance Management solution deployment. Our focus on leading technologies, combined with our uncompromising recruitment and retention of the best talent, has created a formula for providing the best solutions to our growing list of Fortune 1000 clients. CBH’s success is due in large part to our customers success and performance thought-leadership."

About CBH – CBH provides guidance for organizations deploying Performance Management solutions that give the power to make critical business decisions faster, with greater confidence, at every level. Many Fortune 1000 and mid-market companies throughout North America are running faster, smarter and more effectively with the help of CBH. Headquartered in Irvine CA, with offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Dallas, CBH designs solutions for Performance Management that include financial planning, metrics management, business intelligence, collaboration, and workflow technologies.

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