e.Intelligence to Host and Deploy nQuire Suite

e.Intelligence Inc and nQuire Software Inc announced that e.Intelligence will integrate interactive information access and analytics from nQuire into its hosted collaborative business planning and forecasting solution. The alliance will allow executives and B2B trading communities to quickly and easily turn vast quantities of data into useful intelligence. The e.Intelligence collaborative commerce and supply chain solutions coupled with nQuire's scalable analytic server and portal-based interface will help business planners make faster and more informed business decisions.

"To keep pace in the fast world of e-business, organizations must accelerate decision-making and decision implementation" said Richard Tanler, president and CEO of e.Intelligence, "nQuire's technology provides users with timely access to terabytes of data for analysis of business performance, while e.Intelligence focuses on forward-looking planning and forecasting. The combined solution provides users with knowledge about what is happening; why it is happening; and how they can alter their course."

e.Intelligence develops and markets analytical applications for inter-enterprise collaborative planning and forecasting. The proven e.Intelligence core software solution, which was first created in 1996, is founded on the intelligent use of a company's data warehouse -- combining statistical modeling and a collaborative process -- to reach a consensus on plans and forecasts for the firm's products and services. Once limited to supporting a single enterprise, this approach is now becoming critical in supporting the exchange of information and collaboration beyond enterprise boundaries (e.g., within B2B exchanges).

nQuire Software reduces information latency and improves the decision-making process for organizations by providing efficient access to enormous volumes of data from data warehouses and operational systems for real-time intelligence and analytics in context with historical performance. With an easy and intuitive user experience, nQuire allows any user regardless of location or skill to interact with information to make more informed decisions in less time. nQuire's open platform is architected for the Internet and can scale to millions of users, and is ideal for hosted applications like e.Intelligence because it provides a personalized portal framework that delivers custom content, templates, profiles and security to individuals and can be administered by either the end customer or e.Intelligence. nQuire augments the e.Intelligence offering with a robust, multi-level security model that ensures each user only accesses the content they have authorization to see and a multi-tenancy architecture that eliminates the need to install and maintain a physical instance of the nQuire Server for each customer.

"e.Intelligence founder, Rick Tanler, has been at the forefront of decision technology for the last twenty years," said nQuire president and CEO Larry Barbetta. "Existing technologies focus on delivering static and oftentimes reactive data to power users and analysts. e.Intelligence is riding the next wave of intelligence capabilities by aiming to deliver insight throughout the organization and beyond and allowing participants in the supply chain to collaborate with each other to create more informed business plans. We are very pleased to be partnering with e.Intelligence to create solutions that truly help businesses access information and make more informed business decisions."

nQuire joins ObjectFX and SPSS Inc as e.Intelligence business partners to deliver applications for collaborative planning and forecasting.

About e.Intelligence

e.Intelligence provides large and mid-sized corporations with collaborative planning and forecasting analytic applications and services that are compliant with VICS CPFR. e.Intelligence analytic applications leverage the data warehouse to encourage broad-based collaboration, support planning activities within the enterprise, and extend consensus planning throughout the trading community. Our goal is to improve customer service and reduce operational inefficiencies.

Richard Tanler, the company's president and CEO, was previously founder of Information Advantage. e.Intelligence is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and more information can be found on its Web page at www.eintelligence-inc.com.

About nQuire Software

The experienced nQuire team has created some of the most successful companies and products in the data warehousing, business intelligence, OLAP, and enterprise & Internet server markets. The nQuire Suite includes nQuire Answers and nQuire Server.

nQuire Answers provides any user in the business network with analytical access to timely, relevant and actionable information, via a self-service, question-and-answer browser interface. nQuire Server accesses the largest and most complex data warehouses and can intelligently bring together information from multiple systems and sources including data warehouses, operational, transactional and XML-based sources. nQuire is privately held with primary offices in San Mateo, CA and Minnetonka, MN, and regional sales/services offices throughout the United States. nQuire can be reached at 877-635-6201 or on the Web at www.nQuire.com.

Contact for e.Intelligence Inc, Diane Olson, 612-851-7242, dolson@tunheim.com or Stephen Byrnes, nQuire Software, 877-635-6201, sbyrnes@nquire.com.