Bonaventura Joins DecisionPoint Applications Europe

In another major step to maximize opportunities for European business growth DecisionPoint Applications Europe Inc, a subsidiary of DecisionPoint Applications Inc, a leading international packaged data warehouse vendor, has appointed Dr. Michael Bonaventura as vice president of Services for Europe. Bonaventura joins DecisionPoint Applications Europe having previously worked as a strategist at TNT Post Group.

Bonaventura's responsibilities include developing strategic commercial and technical alliances in Europe and establishing technical support for the European operation. He aims to build world-class pre-sales and implementation teams, and establish a dedicated European customer support division. The move reflects DecisionPoint's determination to grow market share and expand into key verticals including, telecommunications, utilities, retail and manufacturing.

Bonaventura brings over 25 years experience within the IT industry to DecisionPoint. Marc Demarest, CEO of DecisionPoint Applications, comments: "Mike comes from an academic background and has published several papers on knowledge-based systems, software engineering and artificial intelligence. This, together with his commercial expertise in logistics, decision support, partner relationship management, and electronic commerce makes him an invaluable asset to the company."

Bonaventura comments: "A market leader with a real vision for the future, DecisionPoint's end-to-end scaleable data warehousing infrastructure and business intelligence solutions allow organizations to gain significant competitive advantage through fact-based decision making. DecisionPoint is leading the way in packaged data warehouse technology and is focused on providing businesses with real insight into their business operations. It is this attitude and the increasing strength of DecisionPoint's product line that give me reason to believe I have joined DecisionPoint Applications Europe at a very exciting time."

About DecisionPoint Applications

DecisionPoint Applications is the market leader in packaged data warehousing and analytical applications. DecisionPoint Applications' DecisionPoint family of packaged data warehouse environments materially improves the quality, speed and effectiveness of strategic, managerial and operational decision-making processes by providing customers with pre-integrated, end-to-end, data warehousing infrastructure and analytical applications, installed in weeks at a fixed cost.

DecisionPoint Applications, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, has offices in San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, London, and Toronto. DPA customers include many large multinational and high-growth firms like Hollywood Entertainment, Micron Electronics Inc, eZiba, Burlington Coat Factory, and Croner CCH. For further information, contact DecisionPoint Applications at 10260 SW Greenburg Rd., Suite 530, Portland, OR 97223; phone: 800-970-5372, 503-768-3649; or visit the company's Web site at www.dpapplications.com.

Contact Kate McPherron of Sanda Communications, 503-281-5331 or kate@sandacom.com, for DecisionPoint Applications Inc.