Balanced Insight and Cognos Form Partnership

CINCINNATI, OH - May 1, 2007 - Balanced Insight, a leader in providing organizations with a company-wide platform that drives better-designed and more business-focused business intelligence applications, announced a partnership with Cognos, a world-wide leader in business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions.

The partnership is a natural fit for enterprises seeking to deliver more robust business intelligence solutions. Balanced Insight provides intelligent blueprints for building Business intelligence and data warehousing solutions, while Cognos provides a multitude of BI solutions including analysis, reporting, and monitoring functions within their BI platform.

"The innovative combination of Balanced Insight and Cognos provides a robust platform for delivering high value, low cost BI solutions," says Tom Hammergren, President and CEO of Balanced Insight. "Our collective vision will help revolutionize the next generation of Business Intelligence and Performance Management."

About Cognos
Cognos provides a full spectrum of Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities, including reporting, risk management, planning, data integration, dashboards, scorecards, and a multitude of tools to assist enterprises in making better, more qualified decisions.
For more information visit www.cognos.com

About Balanced Insight, Inc.
Balanced Insight, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, helps companies double the return on their business intelligence (BI) and performance management investments. Its signature Balanced Insight Consensus® software is a company-wide platform that brings business focus to the BI development process and automates the arduous task of giving all data a consistent business meaning — what Gartner calls semantic reconciliation. This process leads to more trusted and widely-adopted BI investments with lower ongoing support costs.
For more information visit www.balancedinsight.com