PCMS

Cincinnati, Ohio, April 5th 2004 - PCMS, Inc., a Cincinnati based professional services firm, announces its partnership with Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management, to provide customers with thought leading and innovative solutions to deliver direct, positive bottom line results.

“Partnering with an established and retail specific firm like PCMS, enables Cognos to span its solutions to retailers across North America. It not only gives us credibility within PCMS’s existing customer base, but guarantees proper representation, implementation and training of Cognos solutions by a proven consulting team which is critical for long term success,” said Ted Jandl, Cognos vice president of worldwide OEM partners. “This relationship builds upon Cognos’ Corporate Performance Management (CPM) vision by offering customers clear path for measuring execution against business strategy and helping them drive value across the enterprise.”

“Even though we have supported Cognos solutions since 1998, this agreement solidifies our choice for two reason; one, it is the best software available when it comes to delivering a complete, integrated solution for our customer’s needs and second, Cognos’ strategy and solutions directly compliment PCMS’s core competencies of retail and CPM,” said Brenda Beckett, a practice manager for PCMS’s Planning and Reporting Group. “Cognos Enterprise Business Planning Series offers unparallel top-down planning, bottom-up budgeting with innovative score card functionality essential for today’s demanding retail operations.”

About PCMS:
PCMS is a leading provider of integrated software and services for retailers. PCMS combines state of the art technology with proven consulting expertise to address multiple customer segments such as apparel, hospitality, grocery, appliance and electronics, automotive aftercare, airport retailing, optical products, and music and books. Headquarted in the United Kingdom, PCMS has offices in the United States and Canada, with a distribution network in Australia, Japan, Italy and Germany. For more information, visit www.pcmsdatafit.com.