i-Beacon.com SELECTS FABER CONSULTING'S SERVICES

i-Beacon.com of Oakland, Calif, announced that it selected the services of Faber Consulting, LLC to assist in the Web architecture of its premier analytic product line, BeSelect.com, aimed at the $120 billion pharmaceutical market. Faber will help build a Web-enabled, business intelligence data architecture integrating BeSelect.com's database of consumer-related healthcare data. The new data infrastructure will deliver i-Beacon.com users advanced marketing capabilities in market research, compliance promotion, campaign management and clinical trials management.

Faber Consulting is recognized for its unique approach to combining technology with proven business strategies. It is the first and only management consulting firm dedicated to building solutions, which merge the best practices in e-commerce and business intelligence while supporting full life-cycle capabilities for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), B2B Exchanges, B2C Exchanges, Supply Chain, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Legacy Internet Transformations.

"Faber's leaders possess a thorough understanding of business intelligence and data integration that is unmatched in their field," said Mathew Holt, vice president of strategy and business development for i-Beacon.com. "Faber's contribution to the architectural design of the BeSelect data warehouse will enable i-Beacon to deliver comprehensive consumer-centric data analysis to our health care customers."

i-Beacon.com's integrated services will address five key areas:

• i-Research uses a proprietary combination of pharmacy and medical claims and other consumer-centric data to deliver aggregate consumer healthcare behavior information.
• i-Campaign automates direct-to-consumer marketing campaign management by refining communications, identifying patient populations and evaluating campaign effectiveness.
• i-Personalize provides a consumer-facing toolset, including a health record and care management tools. These tools allow healthcare professionals to deliver specific content and services to appropriate patients.
• i-Price models consumers pharmaceutical price elasticity and will in time allow real-time pricing research on an individual market basis.
• i-Recruit helps pharmaceutical companies and CROs to identify potential candidates for clinical trials, to create effective marketing campaigns to alert relevant individuals to clinical trial possibilities, and to improve their overall recruitment efforts.

"i-Beacon.com clearly understands the significant role business intelligence and data warehousing can play for sales and marketing professionals," said John Onder, president of Faber. "They are exploring an area that all companies should investigate in order to get the most out of their product. i-Beacon is effectively capitalizing on their resources and empowering marketing managers to access information previously unavailable in the healthcare industry."

About Faber Consulting

Faber Consulting is an innovative and comprehensive professional services company that focuses exclusively on integrated Business Intelligence and eBusiness solutions -- iBusiness. By combining proven methodologies and deep experiences in the two fields, Faber helps organizations deliver results. Faber's business-driven approach focuses on the bottom line, while being responsive to and understanding information needs and technologies facing companies today. Working with national Fortune 1000 companies, Faber provides Internet-based solutions that enable organizations to transform their vast data assets into true Business Intelligence to develop new revenue streams, improve customer relationships and drive market dominance. Headquartered in Chicago, Faber also has branch offices in Dallas and Los Angeles. For more information on the company, please visit their Website at www.faberconsulting.com.

About i-Beacon.com

The consumer revolution has come to health care, particularly in the arena of consumers making choices amongst different treatments and prescription drugs. i-Beacon is based on a simple idea -- healthcare companies need to better serve healthcare consumers. We give healthcare companies the data, the tools and the services to help them do just that. i-Beacon has the consumercentered data set, the tools and the services healthcare companies can use to improve their relationships with consumers, deliver new value offerings, and improve their bottom line. Our product lines include the BeSelect data warehouse and the RSKHealth Consumer Health Record. i-Beacon.com is based in Oakland, Calif. and was publicly launched in March 2000. Find us on the Web at www.i-Beacon.com.

Contact Elizabeth Scanlon Bils, elizabeth@scanloncc.com of Scanlon Corporate Communications, 312-787-5277 for i-Beacon.com.