ShowCase/McKnight Join Forces to Help Showcase Clients

ShowCase Corporation, a leading provider of Enterprise Intelligence solutions, has entered into a Service Partner agreement with McKnight Associates Inc, a consulting firm that provides companies with solutions designed to improve their business profitability through data warehousing and customer relationship management. Headed by leading data warehousing authority William McKnight, McKnight Associates, Inc. has provided ShowCase staff with training on data warehouse ROI techniques and will assist ShowCase clients with justifying and valuing their data warehouse investments and related software purchases.

"Our clients are looking for quantifiable ways to demonstrate the value of their technology investments," says Paul Hesser, ShowCase vice president of global client services. "By partnering with McKnight, an organization renowned for its ROI methodologies and successful implementations, we can help instill confidence in our customers, assuring them that their data warehousing investments will deliver the expected returns."

Under terms of the agreement, McKnight Associates Inc will become an authorized provider of services to ShowCase customers, participating in joint marketing activities and sharing in sales opportunities. McKnight consultants will work directly with ShowCase customers and will have access to ShowCase's technology support structure.

"It's important to know how data warehouse efforts actually relate to corporate income and expenses. Our ROI methodology is designed to help companies answer those types of questions," says McKnight. "As an objective third-party service partner to ShowCase, we are providing ShowCase clients with a valuable service, helping them to identify and achieve strategic goals and objectives as they relate to their data warehousing and CRM implementations."

McKnight will deliver the keynote address "Top 10 Realities for a CRM-Ready Data Warehouse" at ShowCase's Annual COMPASS 2000 Conference, October 8-11 Orlando, FL.

About ShowCase STRATEGY

ShowCase STRATEGY provides business users and IT professionals with a complete solution for data warehousing and business intelligence. From extraction and transformation of data from AS/400 operational systems, such as e-commerce applications and ERP systems - through loading data into the warehouse and keeping it refreshed through automated scheduling -STRATEGY provides IT professionals with an integrated suite of data warehousing tools. For business users, STRATEGY provides an integrated suite of ad-hoc query and reporting tools, Web-based enterprise reporting, and OLAP-based analytic application solutions.

About ShowCase Corporation

ShowCase Corporation provides Enterprise Intelligence solutions to help companies discover and seize business opportunities in an evolving global marketplace. ShowCase offers the first integrated Web content management and business intelligence solution to help companies solve their strategic business information needs. Through a worldwide team, ShowCase offers reporting and analytic solutions in areas such as financial management and customer relationship management (CRM). The ShowCase Website can be found at www.showcasecorp.com.

About McKnight Associates Inc

McKnight Associates Inc is a leader in appraisal, planning and implementation for high volume, scalable, high performance e-BI programs including data warehousing and customer intimacy initiatives. The McKnight framework provides the roadmap for rolling out a value-focused data warehouse program.

McKnight Associates Inc are business technologists and completely client-oriented in the approach to their services. McKnight Associates, Inc. has successfully designed, developed and implemented data warehousing and CRM solutions for its clients in numerous industries. McKnight provides service offerings around development, integration, requirements, auditing, design, vendor-facing activity and knowledge transfer.

Contact ShowCase Corporation, Mary Ellen Hartigan, 847-685-6557, mhartigan@showcasecorp.com or Outlook Marketing Services Inc, Kristin R. Fayer, 847-509-3099 x205, kfayer@outlookmarketingsrv.com, McKnight Associates Inc, Lourdes David, 408-246-6348 x2, ldavid@mcknight-associates.com.