CANONSBURG, PA, Sept 25, 2002 PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX - Partnership With the World's Leading Business Intelligence Company Extends UBICS' Market Leadership. UBICS, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBIX), a full-service IT services provider with million in revenue in 2001, announced a newly formed partnership with Cognos, the 5 million world leader in business intelligence (BI). Under the agreement, UBICS consultants will obtain intensive technical training on Cognos' industry-leading BI solutions, as well as sell Cognos' BI solutions to UBICS clients. The strategic partnership will extend UBICS' already extensive enterprise solution services. After identifying a need for a solution in the BI space, UBICS conducted a review of partnership opportunities and selected Cognos. The company's customer service was a key deciding factor. The Cognos Global Customer Support Team has achieved certification under the prestigious Support Center Practices (SCP) Certification program. Cognos achieved certification after an extensive audit of its corporate support site. SCP Certification quantifies the effectiveness of customer support based upon a stringent set of performance standards and represents best practices in the industry.

In addition, Cognos fulfills the promise of corporate performance management (CPM) with a comprehensive framework to address the entire management cycle. This framework enables the complete management cycle with software for planning, budgeting, reporting and analysis, and monitoring - linking people, information, and decision-making processes throughout the organization.

'Our goal is to provide our clients with data mining solutions that enable them to be successful. Cognos' business intelligence software does just that - it will help our clients make the best decisions for their business. As they execute better decision-making, our clients will achieve a new level of efficiency,' said Bob Harbage, UBICS' CEO. 'The Cognos solution is flexible enough to be implemented quickly in one department, and then extended incrementally to enable CPM across an entire global enterprise.'

'Customers will reap the benefits of shortened time to result by deploying solutions based on the combination of quality, market-proven business intelligence products, and services offered by Cognos and UBICS,' said Ted Jandl, Cognos area vice president of North American partner channel sales. 'With UBICS' strengths in implementation and consulting, combined with Cognos' business intelligence technology and corporate performance management vision, customers will derive a complete solution to address their business needs.'

'The move to provide our extensive client base with business intelligence products from Cognos reflects our longstanding commitment to leading-edge technology solutions,' commented Dr. Vijay Mallya, Chairman of UBICS. 'Our clients experienced a need and we provided a world-class solution.'

UBICS provides international information technology (IT) professional services to organizations in areas such as client/server design and development, ERP & CRM package implementation and customization, e-commerce/Internet, application maintenance programming, data base, systems and network administration, network engineering, and business process re-engineering. Through its SquareRadius subsidiary and 3 office locations, UBICS also provides Web Development, Digital Media, Comprehensive Design, Strategic Planning and Custom Kiosk solutions within various industries across the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit the UBICS web site at http://www.UBICS.com.

Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence (BI), delivers software that helps companies improve business performance by enabling effective decision-making at all levels of the organization. A forerunner in defining the BI software category, Cognos delivers the next level of competitive advantage - Corporate Performance Management (CPM) - achieved through the strategic application of BI on an enterprise scale.

CPM lets organizations measure execution against business strategy to ensure the two are aligned at all levels across the enterprise. Cognos provides a framework for CPM that links people, information, and decision- making processes throughout the organization, and enables the complete management cycle with integrated software for planning, budgeting, reporting, analysis, and scorecarding.

Cognos serves more than 19,000 customers in over 120 countries. Cognos enterprise business intelligence solutions and services are also available from more than 3,000 worldwide partners and resellers. For more information, visit the Cognos Web site at http://www.cognos.com.

Forward-looking statements (statements which are not historical facts) in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For this purpose, any statements contained in this report that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, words such as 'may', 'will', 'to', 'expect', 'believe', 'anticipate', 'intend', 'could', 'would', 'estimate', or 'continue' or the negative or other variations thereof or comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties. UBICS stockholders are subject to the risks and uncertainties described in UBICS' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including UBICS' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001.

SOURCE UBICS, Inc.

Contacts:
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Director of Marketing of UBICS,
+1-480-367-8646 x2003
pservino@ubics.com
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