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ALPHABLOX LAUNCHES WEB-BASED CYBERSUMMIT XPERT SERIES FEATURING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE THOUGHT LEADERS AND INNOVATORS

CyberSummits to Focus On Gaining Competitive Advantage in the Net Economy

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA ,-November 21, 2000 - AlphaBlox Corporation, provider of the only open Web-based platform for broadly deploying business intelligence (BI) applications, today announced its CyberSummit Xpert Series, a series of Web-based seminars designed to explore the challenges of using and managing information to optimize business performance from different expert perspectives. The CyberSummits, targeted to business and IT executives responsible for driving corporate Web and/or business intelligence initiatives, feature BI thought leaders, industry innovators, and companies successfully implementing BI solutions. The next two CyberSummits will be held November 29 and December 12.

The November 29 CyberSummit, "How to Turn Your Relational Database into a Lean, Mean Analysis Machine", focuses on how a BI platform can be used to exchange valuable corporate data with customers, partners, and suppliers for maximized efficiency and profitability. Gary Robinson, senior software engineer, IBM DB2 OLAP Server Development, is the featured expert. In this session, attendees will gain insight into:

  • What's driving the need to deliver data beyond corporate firewalls
  • How the Internet enables seamless integration of reports, analytics, and rich value add
  • What tools are available for extracting the data you need
  • How companies can benefit from a joint solution from IBM and AlphaBlox

The December 12 CyberSummit, "How Pfizer Gains Strategic Advantage With Next Generation Business Intelligence", will show how Pfizer, a leading global pharmaceutical company, is using AlphaBlox as an integral part of their corporate sales information architecture. Pfizer is leveraging the Web to widely distribute relevant and personalized information to decision makers across the enterprise.

CyberSummit Registration
For more information, or to register for the CyberSummit Xpert Series events, visit http://www.alphablox.com/cybersummit.asp

About AlphaBlox
AlphaBlox Corporation provides the industry's only open and extensible 100% Web-based platform for delivering analytical applications that optimize eBusiness efficiencies. With AlphaBlox, companies can share and analyze information with customers, partners, and suppliers to build eBusiness communities, foster more profitable eBusiness relationships, and optimize business performance.

Leveraging AlphaBlox's unique "building Blox™" approach, customers and partners can quickly assemble and deploy a variety of customized analytical applications for measuring and improving eBusiness operations, financial performance, customer/product profitability, distribution channels, and the supply chain. Leading Global 1000 organizations such as Deutsche Bank Securities, AT&T, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Hewlett Packard, Toyota Motor Company, FedEx, Morgan Stanley, and Oppenheimer Funds rely on AlphaBlox solutions to turn their information assets into strategic advantage. Additional information on AlphaBlox Corporation and its products can be obtained by calling 888-256-9669 or via the company's Web site at www.alphablox.com.

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