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Transform Web Pages into Analytics-enhanced "Power Portals"

COMDEX, Booth: # L7162-10: With the release of Databeacon 5.2 comes a new product component called Databeacon PageEnhancer API, making it easier than ever for companies to integrate interactive analytics into their Web page environments. The new client-side PageEnhancer API provides integration and customization capabilities to allow Web developers to control the way data analysis and reporting is presented online, enabling the interface to meet the needs of customer, supplier, partner or employee communities served by extranets or departmental intranets.

"Scrolling through page after page of static tables on the Web is not an effective way to examine data," said Andrew Coutts, CEO, Databeacon Inc. "Databeacon 5.2 enables enterprises to publish interactive data on any Web page so anyone can get insight out without the need for end-user training, manuals or software installations."

"The need to deliver timely and succinct information to a broad range of users both within and beyond the firewall is driving increased adoption of Internet-based analysis and reporting tools across industries," said Jacqueline Sweeney-Coolidge, Director, Hurwitz Group. "Databeacon 5.2 will help companies provide Internet-based audiences with simplified access to personally relevant information and enable them to make better business decisions faster."

Databeacon PageEnhancer API allows developers to selectively enable or disable functionality in the Databeacon Insight viewer working with languages like JavaScript, Jscript and Java. They can hide and expose toolbar buttons, menu items and report views, all through dynamic program control. This allows developers to restrict capabilities within particular groups, or to offer solutions better aligned to the skills, roles and responsibilities of a particular online audience. An administrator might only see pre-determined report views, while a business analyst would have the complete range of Databeacon analysis and reporting capabilities, including browser-to-desktop integration with Excel, Word, Acrobat, and offline-processing.

The PageEnhancer API allows companies to seamlessly integrate Databeacon's powerful Internet analytics into existing Web-based applications, while maintaining existing interface methods. Viewers can click on picture buttons to select different graph styles, radio buttons to choose a particular report view, or drop-down lists for a particular data filter.

Databeacon PageEnhancer API also brings extensibility to online analytics. Developers can add functionality to the Databeacon Insight viewer, such that when selected, it would trigger an action by an external program. For example, selecting an "Illustrate" button launches a visualization tool to illustrate the currently selected data item. Any number of products could be used to further illustrate and explore the identified selection through multi-dimensional analysis.

A Developer's Guide provides an overview on how to use the Databeacon PageEnhancer API, and coding examples clearly illustrate how to customize Databeacon to better fit the needs of any enterprise audience.

Databeacon 5.2 also features improved performance and new data-handling capabilities. The data selected for analysis is sent to the browser in compressed cubes. Databeacon 5.2 utilizes the latest in compression technology, which in preliminary testing has shown increases in data compression of up to 70%. This means less transfer time, resulting in a faster response to the Databeacon Insight viewer. It also means that larger amounts of data can be deployed easily to the browser viewer for analysis.

XML is here to stay, and Databeacon 5.2 now supports it. Data in this new format -- SQL Server, Oracle or flat XML -- can be read, processed and deployed for immediate analysis by managers across the enterprise.

The Databeacon Insight viewer will appear in the user's selected language preference, extending the overall ease-of-use and quickening the rate of adoption in global enterprises. Initially English, French and German will be supported.

"Across the enterprise has new meaning. With release 5.2, we now also offer localized versions of Databeacon, allowing global audiences to view data in their native language," said Coutts. "Now, imagination is the only limiter in how you present powerful analytics and reporting to audiences across the extended enterprise."

Pricing for Databeacon 5.2 starts at $10,000 for a 10-named-user, one-developer starter system and rises to $90,000 for a two-processor unlimited user license. Databeacon PageEnhancer API costs an additional $10,000 for named-user Databeacon 5.2 licensees, and $15,000 with an unlimited user license.

About Databeacon Inc

Founded in 1995, Databeacon Inc is the award winning developer of Internet-based information analysis and reporting software to Get Insight Out. Organizations around the world are using Databeacon to deploy Information Outreach(tm) applications, defined as "the delivery of self-personalized, interactive information and analytical capabilities to large Internet-based user audiences." The company's Web site is www.databeacon.com and its headquarters are based in Ottawa, Canada, with sales offices across North America, resellers in Europe and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners located around the world.

Contact Nathan Rudyk, Databeacon Inc, 613-729-4480 x304, nrudyk@databeacon.com.