Visual Insights Appoints Dale M. Timberlake

Assuming the post in July, Timberlake's areas of responsibility encompass Visual Insights' Business Consulting Services, Solution Architecture, and Custom Solution design and development for customers requiring unique data visualization-based analysis applications.

Prior to joining Visual Insights, Timberlake served as business consulting practice director for Oracle Corporation. In this position, he directed business process analyses and solution architecture definition to ensure that Oracle's customer business solutions aligned with best practices and maximum return on investment.

Of the recent appointment, Visual Insights president and CEO Douglas A. Cogswell states: "Dale brings to Visual Insights a wealth of experience and expertise from his work with Oracle's business solutions and customers. We are confident that our clients will benefit significantly from Dale's in-depth business acumen, as well as his technical knowledge and skills."

Timberlake adds: "It's great to be joining Visual Insights at such an exciting time. I look forward to working closely with customers to define their unique business and eBusiness goals and provide recommendations for practical, cost- effective solutions. The goal of Visual Insights' professional service and custom solution offerings is to ensure the success of our customers' analytical applications through the creative application of our advanced data visualization technologies."

Prior to Oracle, Timberlake was vice president and principal with The REL Consultancy Group, a U.K.-based consulting organization specializing in working capital improvement for companies of $1-billion and larger. Previously, he held executive positions in Chicago with Kemper Financial Services, LaSalle Partners and Royal LePage (a Toronto-based financial services company), and with the University of Michigan School of Business Administration. Timberlake holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

About Visual Insights Business Solutions and Professional Services

Visual Insights recently launched its eBizinsights family of next-generation eBusiness Performance solutions which provide eCompanies with a revolutionary new analytical platform designed to help them better understand customers, evaluate Website performance, and implement improved eBusiness strategies. In addition, Visual Insights offers Business Consulting services to provide users of our data visualization-based analysis solutions with expert business and technical counsel surrounding eBusiness initiatives and analysis. Our Solution Architecture service assists existing and prospective customers with a solution definition to resolve business issues. To achieve this, the Solution Architecture team provides a deep understanding of both the business and technical sides of the customer's analytical requirements. And, for companies with unique requirements, Visual Insights offers a wide range of custom-designed advanced visualization solutions built on our patented Visual Discovery and 3D presentation technologies.

About Visual Insights

Visual Insights is the eBusiness Performance Company. Our mission is to help companies create and sustain winning eBusiness strategies. Our patented data visualization software revolutionizes the way people analyze and present eBusiness data, allowing companies to gain a better understanding of their customers, their marketing strategies, site performance, and overall return on their eBusiness investments.

Visual Insights was formed in 1997 to leverage 10 years of Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories' extensive research and development efforts in data visualization technology. After spinning off from Lucent in 1999, Visual Insights acquired Visible Decisions, Inc to form the world's leading data visualization software company.

Today, hundreds of corporations depend on Visual Insights' data visualization-based solutions to define and understand business risk, evaluate eBusiness strategies, analyze financial data, and get closer to their customers. Leading technology companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Cognos, and i2 Technologies, integrate our Visual Discovery and realTime3D to enhance their product offerings.

Contact Visual Insights, Sharon Hamilton, 630-753-8614, sharon.hamilton@visualinsights.com, www.visualinsights.com.