HUMMINGBIRD ANNOUNCES GENIO MINER DM SOLUTION

Hummingbird Ltd, a world-leading enterprise software solutions company, announces Genio Miner, a major new solution offering. This release is designed to set new standards for business critical data mining needs including customer relationship management, fraud detection and credit risk scoring. Hummingbird Genio Miner is a unique data mining solution that integrates data acquisition and cleansing with state-of-the-art algorithmic models. This revolutionary architecture provides more precise results by improving the quality of the source data and facilitating access from heterogeneous sources including flat files and direct database connections. Model deployment can be distributed between desktop and back-end for enterprise-strength data mining.

"Genio Miner is an exciting product because it addresses the entire virtuous cycle of data mining, not just the analytical modeling portion. Successful data mining requires complex transformations of the source data. These transformations must be captured as metadata and incorporated into the models themselves so that models can be deployed in the field to score customer databases," says Michael Berry, founder and principal of Data Miners Inc a leading data mining consulting company. "Data mining has become a crucially important tool that companies use to exploit the information provided by their data warehousing initiatives to improve customer service and to optimize revenue streams. The key to successful mining results lies in the quality of the source data and the ability to transform it into mineable variables," he continues. Genio Miner presents the final steps in Hummingbird's end-to-end data warehousing solution which includes Genio Suite, the data integration solution and BI/Suite, the enterprise query and reporting solution. With this addition, enterprise users will not only have a familiar user interface but also the ability to meet mission critical requirements for better informed and timely decisions. "With the launch of Genio Miner, organizations now have a one-stop solution for all their data warehousing, data reporting and analysis needs. Our strategy is to provide robust enterprise-scalable technology that is platform independent and can be used as a standalone solution or integrated with the Hummingbird EIP," said Sami Hero, director of marketing for Hummingbird Data Integration and Reporting Solutions. "Our customers now have the technology to conduct data mining operations including high quality data analysis."

Redefining Data Mining

Genio Miner provides an integrated environment to extract data from not only flat files, but also from multiple heterogeneous sources including direct database connections. The extracted information is used to create decision trees, predictive models or used to cluster and score data using a highly graphical and intuitive interface. Models can be deployed on both the desktop and back-end servers improving through-put for powerful data mining at the enterprise level.

Key features of Genio Miner include:

• Integrated data acquisition and cleansing functionality
• Enhanced Predictive Models
• Naive Bayesian with boosting
• Symbolic Nearest Mean(SNM) a variant of the K-th Nearest Neighbor
• LVQ (Learning Vector Quantisation)
• Multi-Layer Perceptron predictive model (neural net)
• Fuzzy Logic
• Clustering Methods
• Kohonen self-organised map
• Gaussian Mixture ( Expectation Maximization)
• K-means
• Decision Trees including Chaid, C4.5 and Gini

Pricing and Availability

Genio Miner will be available after May 15th at which date the final pricing will be announced.

About Hummingbird Data Integration and Reporting Solutions

Hummingbird Data Integration and Reporting Solutions allow users to access and analyze structured information stored in transactional databases, data marts and data warehouses. The complete data integration and reporting product suite includes enterprise query and reporting, thin-client solutions, data transformation and exchange, analytic applications, data mining and more. Hummingbird data integration and reporting solutions enable organizations to maximize the value of structured data, allowing them to make better-informed decisions.

About Hummingbird EIP

Building on core Hummingbird technologies, the Hummingbird EIP provides a single point of access to all business-critical information and resources including structured and unstructured enterprise data. Beyond access, the Hummingbird EIP works by connecting users to content in context, enabling them to quickly process, filter, and act upon information from any enterprise source.

About Hummingbird Ltd.

Hummingbird is a leader in the development of enterprise software solutions that provide access to all business-critical information and resources. The Hummingbird EIP (Enterprise Information Portal) leverages the company's core strengths in network connectivity, data integration & reporting, and document & knowledge management to connect users to all the business information they need, aggregated and categorized through a single user interface. With a diverse product portfolio, Hummingbird offers complete global enterprise solutions from advanced host connectivity, through sophisticated data exchange, query & reporting and analytic applications, to powerful information management at the desktop or on the Web. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company offers its products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 50 countries around the world.

Contact David Ahrens, Hummingbird Communications 416-496-2200 x2549, david.ahrens@hummingbird.com.