Visual Insights' eBizinsights Featured at MS Tech Center

Visual Insights announced that its eBizinsights family of eBusiness Performance Management software will be featured at the Microsoft Technology Center - Silicon Valley (MTC-SV). This new state-of the art facility provides customers a complete development environment, infrastructure and technical experts to accelerate development of robust e-commerce solutions.

"eBizinsights is a complete eBusiness Performance platform built on the highly scalable Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers" said Michael Tatelman, vice president for Visual Insights. "This MTC-SV gives us a chance to showcase a new breed of applications that offers high functionality at a total cost of ownership that is significantly lower than products built on competing eBusiness and business intelligence platforms. We hope to show companies how to improve the return on their Web business investments by gaining a better understanding of customer behavior, site and promotional effectiveness, marketing program profitability, and Website activity."

"A company's ability to understand the complexities of its Website activity is critical to making day-to-day and long-range business decisions," said Steve Bauman, general manager of e-commerce at Microsoft Corp. "Detailed performance results programs from companies like Visual Insights, built on flexible technology like the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, enables customers to run their business with a better understanding and vision of what it takes to make their e-commerce Websites successful."

About Microsoft Technology Centers

Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) are new, state-of-the-art labs and training facilities that provide customers with a complete development environment to accelerate the design and launch of robust e-business solutions utilizing Microsoft technologies and those of selected technology partners. The Microsoft Technology Center in Silicon Valley is Microsoft's largest MTC investment in the world and is the premier development, testing, and training center for leading companies throughout Silicon Valley and beyond. Through people, products, and technology partners, the Center provides infrastructure, support, expertise, and a "best practices" development philosophy, to startups and clicks & mortar companies to develop, test and tune their applications to achieve unsurpassed performance through Microsoft .NET solutions.

About eBizinsights

eBizinsights is designed to enable business and financial executives, marketing and sales personnel, IT professionals and webmasters to quickly and easily discover, analyze and communicate eBusiness performance results for faster, better decision-making. By providing an immediate and accurate understanding of Web site performance, visitor behavior, promotional effectiveness and site activity, the eBizinsights family can help companies build more effective eBusiness strategies, resulting in increased sales and profits, better customer loyalty and lower operating costs. The eBizinsights family of software solutions consists of eBizinsights XL for high performance, multiple Web server environments; eBizinsights CS for Microsoft Commerce Server 2000; and eBizinsights 2.0 for single Web server environments.

According to Hurwitz Group, the Framingham, MA-based analyst, Visual Insights eBizinsights is the first eBusiness Performance Management solution to make the crucial connection between Website performance and business goals.

About Visual Insights

Visual Insights is the eBusiness Performance Company. Our mission is to help companies create and sustain winning eBusiness strategies. Visual Insights was formed in 1997 to leverage 10 years of Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories' extensive R&D efforts in data visualization technology. As the world's largest data visualization software company, premier technology companies, including Microsoft, IBM, Cognos and i2 Technologies, integrate our patented solutions to enhance their product offerings. For more information about the eBizinsights family of products and a copy of the Hurwitz Group white paper, "The Next Generation of eBusiness Performance Management," visit Visual Insights Web site at: www.visualinsights.com.

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