Combined Solution Enables Customers To Build and Deploy Analytic Applications Faster and at a Lower Cost Than Alternate Solutions

Boise, Idaho - May 8, 2002 - ProClarity Corporation today announced its support for the Microsoft SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence™ (Accelerator for BI), which represents a new approach to building Business Intelligence solutions. The Accelerator for BI enables companies to rapidly build and deploy analytic applications at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. ProClarity® solutions seamlessly integrate with the applications built with the SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence, providing mutual customers with an easy approach to accelerating the development and deployment of analytic applications.

Implementing business intelligence applications is one of the most valuable approaches an organization can adopt to help improve decision-making. Organizations implement business intelligence solutions to help understand their customers' buying patterns, identify sales and profit growth opportunities, and improve overall decision-making. ProClarity's intuitive user interface and patented data visualization significantly reduce the time required for decision-makers to understand key metrics driving their business.

"ProClarity played a key role in helping Microsoft bring the SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence to market by enabling its analytics platform to build reports for applications built with the Accelerator for BI," said Don Petersen, SQL Server product manager at Microsoft Corp. "Our mutual customers benefit from the ability to rapidly develop and deploy Web-based analytic applications at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions."

The ProClarity product family delivers smart, web-based analytic solutions that are tailored to the individual user and align with the customers' decision-making processes. The ProClarityÒ Analytic Platform includes several clients and an optional server component for maximizing user adoption. Customers can choose from a desktop client with the complete analytic toolset, a Web-based client with locally installed components or a zero-footprint, Web-based client that does not require any local components. The ProClarity Analytics Server provides centralized storage, management and distribution of analytics and client software using a middle-tier server. Tight integration with Microsoft Office XP enables unique, live data export so that users do not have to forego working in their favorite productivity tools, including PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and the dashboard.

"ProClarity's vision for Business Intelligence is to enable organizations to improve the speed and quality of decision-making and business performance by allowing access and the ability to share data, both internally and with partners," said Clay Young, VP of Marketing of ProClarity Corporation. "ProClarity and Microsoft continue to gain strength in the Business Intelligence industry by delivering customers enterprise-class analytic solutions that meet their complex analytic and deployment requirements at a much lower cost."

To learn more about the Accelerator for BI and ProClarity's client offering, please visit www.microsoft.com/solutions/bi/.

About ProClarity Corporation
ProClarity Corporation delivers analytic software and services that increase the speed at which organizations can make informed decisions which are optimized to directly influence business performance. ProClarity has been delivering innovative analytic solutions to Global 3000 companies since 1995. ProClarity, a privately-held company, ensures maximum return on technology investment and widespread user adoption by delivering solutions tailored around business processes and decision-making workflows. Located in Idaho, USA, and with regional sales and services offices throughout Europe and Asia Pacific, ProClarity currently supports over 600 customers globally including, AT&T, CompUSA, Ericsson, GE Capital, Hewlett-Packard, Nabisco, and Verizon. ProClarity Analytics Platform OEM customers include ABC Technologies, Changepoint, comScore Networks, Epicor, FRx, Manhattan Associates, Manugistics, Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions and NetIQ/WebTrends. To learn more, visit www.proclarity.com or call 208 344 1630.

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