DecisionPoint Announces DecisionPoint for Financial Analysis

DecisionPoint Applications Inc (DPA), a leading international packaged data warehouse and analytical applications vendor, announced DecisionPoint for Financial Analysis, an entry-level analytical applications offering, based on the company's market-leading DecisionPoint data warehouse product line. DecisionPoint for Financial Analysis allows companies with smaller analytical user communities and limited application purchasing budgets to perform the same kinds of complex, detailed financial analysis facilitated by DPA's DecisionPoint for Financials product at a lower price, and to upgrade to the broader functionality of the full DecisionPoint for Financials product when their organizational needs dictate and budgets permit.

"Today, mid-sized organizations, companies with limited application budgets and organizations focused on reporting, rather than ad hoc analysis, have an extraordinarily limited set of choices in the analytical applications marketplace," said Marc Demarest, DPA's CEO. "This is particularly true where financials -- the single most important data set in the enterprise -- are concerned. DecisionPoint for Financial Analysis allows these organizations to buy into a scalable, enterprise-wide data warehousing environment at a much lower price point, which obviates the need for them to purchase dead-end, throw-away reporting technology, and which allows them to grow their enterprise-wide analytical capability at a pace that fits their needs and their budget."

DecisionPoint for Financial Analysis replaces the overly simplistic and limited reporting "add-ons" offered by ERP vendors with DecisionPoint's proven, expandable enterprise data warehousing and analytical applications functionality, at a price point competitive with the ERP vendor offerings and pro-prietary OLAP-based analytical applications. The product limits the analytical user community to 10 users and the warehouse data set size to 20GB, and includes three of DecisionPoint's major financial Business Domains: General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable. Support for a single Oracle Financials source system is included, as is an instance of the DecisionPoint Warehouse, which runs on all DecisionPoint-supported platforms, including Sun, HP-UX, IBM RS/6000, and Compaq Tru64. Pricing for DecisionPoint for Financial Analysis starts at $125,000. Maintenance fees and the cost of implementation, which can be finished in 4-6 weeks, are not included in the price.

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-toend, 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, 503-517-8555, for DecisionPoint Applications Inc.