Sterne Stackhouse Inc Launches Web-LAB

Sterne Stackhouse Inc (SSI), an emerging leader in real-time data-retrieval technology, announced the first commercial-ready release of Web-LAB 2.0. Built with SSI's proven Labrador retrie single point of access to all enterprise databases, in real-time, to any knowledge worker connected to the Internet or an intranet.

Acting as a bridge between a corporation's databases and its knowledge workforce around the world, Web-LAB connects decision-makers with up-to-the-minute corporate information, enabling them to easily process, filter, and make business-critical decisions from anywhere, at anytime.

SSI's Web-LAB offers a wide range of features that include:

• Access to real-time corporate databases - anywhere, anytime
• Highly optimized speed of data retrieval Intuitive, easy to use, graphical screens
• Common language 'point and click' query screens
• Easy self-defined reporting Robust security - restricts access right down to individual user level
• Ability to geographically display data on a fully integrated map
• Ease and speed of implementation
• Complete access to the entire database, affording true 'ad-hoc' reporting and querying
• Personalized Web-LAB pages for custom reports and queries

Web-LAB is a powerful solution for organizations that need a high performance, platform independent, query and reporting tool that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. It also allows decision makers and knowledge workers throughout any enterprise to customize their own personal Web-LAB pages and views.

"We have harnessed the strengths and functionality of our proven Labrador(R) query technology and placed it on the Web, so whether you're across the world, or across the hall, you have access to all of your corporation's intellectual capital," says, Ron Sterne, CEO of SSI. He added, "Web-LAB's generic capabilities are well-suited to all of our target verticals such as healthcare, finance and utilities - the e-commerce revenue potential alone is enormous."

About Sterne Stackhouse Inc.

Sterne Stackhouse inc. is an emerging leader in real-time, data retrieval technology, providing Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management solutions to corporations worldwide. Simply put, harnessing the power and speed of Labrador, SSI's retrieval technology, enables users to access all their information anywhere, anytime. Consequently leaders and decision-makers are now able to make fully informed decisions based on previously unavailable information. They now have all the facts, instantly. SSI serves customers around the world from its headquarters in Calgary, Canada.