InetSoft Technology Announces the Release of Style Report 6.0 and Style Report Analytic Edition

Piscataway, NJ – May 20, 2004 - InetSoft Technology has announced the general availability of Style Report™ 6.0. Along with many new feature enhancements to the existing Style Report editions, InetSoft introduces a new member to the Style Report family, Style Report/Analytic Edition, which is introduced with a host of ad hoc reporting tool and analytic tool functionalities.

Style Report/Analytic Edition is built on top of the powerful and successful Enterprise Edition. The design goal for Style Report/Analytic Edition is to resolve the conflict between powerful data analysis and ease-of-use in a zero client Web environment. Style Report/Analytic Edition innovatively breaks up analytic needs into small, easy to learn, and easy to use components. End users will be able to cherry-pick the components that are relevant to what they need and greatly reduce the complexity.

Simplified, yet more powerful Ad hoc reporting is the first area where Style Report/Analytic Edition clearly stands out. Ad hoc reporting itself is divided into small components. An existing report or an empty template typically serves as the starting point for Ad hoc reporting. Then, small components of the report can be individually worked upon without disturbing other parts of the report or data. For example, altering the summarization level will only require changing the grouping component, which is controlled by a small web page. End users will be able to navigate and explore these components as they would explore and navigate through a Website, thus allowing them to become highly productive and self-sufficient in a short amount of time.

For more dynamic analysis that requires OLAP server functionality, Style Report/Analytic Edition’s innovation is once again evident. The greatest difficulty facing most OLAP reporting users is the expensive process required to setup OLAP databases, install a host of new business intelligence query software and business analytic software on both client and server, and finally populate the database with meaningful data. This process is not only expensive but also has a very high failure rate. Style Report/Analytic Edition addresses this problem head-on. For Style Report, the first step of OLAP is ROLAP, which is not much different from a regular report.

Without any changes, or even the addition of new tables in the database, relational data can be viewed by Style Report in dimensions and cubes. The simplicity of our ROLAP product allows any user to try out the sophisticated analysis without having to actually implement a large project. For users who do extensive analysis, multi-dimensional databases will provide better performance. However, even for those users, the ROLAP experience is extremely valuable and is the key factor in preventing failure. Once a multi-dimensional database is properly setup and populated, Style Report/Analytic Edition can be simply switched to point to it. This incremental capability will deliver great value for all end users.

Real time alerting is another key function that is closely linked to ad hoc reporting. The combination of ad hoc reporting and alerts allow end users to get real time reporting on the events they have defined through reports. When not properly controlled, business intelligence KPI projects sometimes have been viewed as costly, time-sucking productivity killers. Style Report/Analytic Edition’s real time alerts provide a truly effective weapon to fight against wasted time.

“Style Report Analytic Edition 6.0 is a great milestone in Style Report’s history”, said Luke Liang, Director of Marketing at InetSoft. “Our customers highly value the customer-in-the-driver's-seat approach of our product lineup. With this new member of the Style Report family, we greatly extend how far our customers can grow with Style Report.”

About Style Report

Designed as an enterprise reporting and analytic solution, the Style Report family is suitable for a wide range of embedded or stand-alone applications. A zero-client and open standard-based, cross platform server engine ensures that our customers realize the highest return on their investment and maintain maximum flexibility.

About InetSoft Technology Corporation

InetSoft Technology Corporation is a leading software development and service company. InetSoft was founded in 1996 by a strong team hailing from world-renowned organizations such as Bell Laboratories and Goldman Sachs. InetSoft is fueled by talented individuals who have been working on Java/XML since the early days, when it was only a topic of discussion in research circles. The strong belief in open standard-based software and the company's early vision for Internet-based technologies has given InetSoft a solid lead in the area.

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For more information, media and analysts may contact:

Mark Flaherty
InetSoft Technology Corp.
+1.732.424.0400 x 936
mark.flaherty@inetsoft.com
www.inetsoft.com

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“Our customers highly value the customer-in-the-driver's-seat approach of our product lineup. With this new member of the Style Report family, we greatly extend how far our customers can grow with Style Report.”

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