WhiteLight/Ideon Announce Strategic Partnership

WhiteLight Systems, a leading provider of next-generation analytical applications, announced a strategic partnership with Ideon Inc, a premier provider of business intelligence implementation services. Ideon will provide post-sales implementation and consulting services to WhiteLight customers. The partnership also allows Ideon to offer advanced analytic solutions to its customers.

"WhiteLight software has unique capabilities which allow companies to address truly complex business problems," said Dennis McGinn, chief executive officer for WhiteLight. "As respected experts in the design and implementation of business intelligence systems, Ideon will play an important role in helping us bring the power of WhiteLight software to a larger number of organizations. Together, WhiteLight and Ideon provide the technology and the business savvy to deliver rapid results to our customers."

"Ideon is committed to providing clients with state-of-the-art technical solutions delivered by experienced professionals," said Parth Shah, president of Ideon. "We found that WhiteLight software goes beyond what other analytic software packages are capable of delivering. WhiteLight's ability to use its powerful analytical platform to drive non-analytical systems is truly unique. It's what e-intelligence is all about. This partnership will help us bring a new level of analytic solutions to our clients. We are very excited about working with WhiteLight since we are ideally suited to address the implementation requirements of their customers."

Using WhiteLight software, companies are moving from simple business diagnostics and "slice-and-dice" modeling, to predictive "what-if" analysis and prescriptive decision-making. WhiteLight's software easily manages large volumes of data, multiple dimensions and complex business rules, enabling companies to model their businesses in hours rather than weeks or months.

About Ideon

Founded in 1996, Ideon Inc is a privately held company based in Naperville, Ill., with additional offices in Detroit, MI and Houston, TX. Ideon is focused on the design and implementation of business intelligence systems. Be it e-business applications, ERP systems or customer focused systems, Ideon takes a top-down, end-user driven approach to extract value from all these data sources. Ideon consultants have substantial experience both as end-users and developers of data marts and warehouses designed to uncover views of information that were previously difficult or impossible to see. For more information about Ideon, visit www.ideon-inc.com

About WhiteLight

Founded in 1992, WhiteLight Systems Inc is a privately held company based in Palo Alto, Calif., with regional headquarters in Europe and Latin America. WhiteLight provides next-generation analytic applications that revolutionize a company's ability to make critical business decisions. With the WhiteLight Analytic Application Suite, companies can quickly create and deploy analytic applications that combine the modeling flexibility of spreadsheets with the data analysis of conventional business intelligence tools. WhiteLight's customers include Barclays, Chase Manhattan Bank, UUNET, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Lehman Brothers and Grupo Televisa. For more information about WhiteLight, visit www.whitelight.com.

Contact Kristin Reams of WhiteLight Systems, 650-843-3008, kreams@whitelight.com.