ProClarity Corporation Announces Release 5, the First Analytic Solution to Deliver Shared Business Logic to the Decision Maker ProClarity Release 5 enterprise customers benefit from the ability to capture and disseminate best analytic practices, collaborate on decisions and gain business advantage faster than ever before BOISE, Idaho, April 22, 2002 - ProClarity Corporation, an award-winning provider of innovative analytic solutions for the enterprise, today announced Release 5 of the ProClarity* Analytics Platform. ProClarity Release 5 is the first analytic environment that expands the knowledge of the individual user with the best practices and collective knowledge of the enterprise. ProClarity Release 5 delivers smart, web-based analytic solutions that are tailored to the individual user and align with the customers' decision-making processes. Now, individual users can harness the power of centralized business logic to conduct sophisticated analysis, make more informed decisions and improve business performance. The introduction of Release 5 brings three key innovations to the forefront: 1. Tools and capabilities to capture and propagate best analytic practices from analytic experts to the general decision making audience. 2. Context-sensitive analytic capabilities allow knowledge holders, stake holders and decision makers to collaborate far more efficiently, and establishes links between quantitative and qualitative information contained in disparate systems throughout an organization. 3. The ability to centrally distribute standardized management reports inside Microsoft* Excel providing routine business reports in this preferred productivity tool. "We are quite impressed with the new web-based analytic functionality of ProClarity Release 5 and believe that it will dramatically enhance business performance and scale to support Time's growing user base," said James Schumm, Analyst at Time Inc. "We have evaluated and tested Release 5 of the ProClarity Analytics Server and look forward to moving our users to the zero-footprint thin client. The server will enable us to avoid installation issues as well as centrally manage the secure distribution of data, views and customizations out to our users, which is extremely important to managing our data assets." Release 5 of the ProClarity Analytics Platform, from which the entire product family is built, is a customizable software environment that optimizes enterprise information and existing investments to promote shared best practices, distributed collaboration and accelerated time to understanding. Upgraded within Release 5, is the ProClarity* Analytics Server that expands the analytic capabilities and scalability of the ProClarity product suite. Release 5 also includes the introduction of ProClarity* Selector and ProClarity* Business Reporter for Excel, two core components that help ProClarity's customers gain competitive advantage. Capture and Share Best Analytic Practices The ProClarity Analytics Platform is designed on a 'publish and consume model' where the ProClarity Analytics Server acts as the middle-tier, connecting users with corporate data stores, and as a repository where business logic, reports and key performance indicators are published and consumed. Uniform definitions of how an analysis is performed and centralized performance measures promote alignment of organizational objectives, while customization capabilities help tailor software implementations to suit user needs. The new ProClarity Selector product is designed to enable decision makers to extract actionable information from the massive amounts of data they collect and share among decision-makers in a timely, easy and efficient fashion. Through a simple series of steps, business users can quickly navigate into and isolate a relevant subset of data. A comprehensive feature set of comparison, filtering and selection capabilities can then be used to spot meaningful trends and patterns - enabling timely, fact-based business decisions. The Selector's unique ability to build stepwise scripts that capture the analysis process facilitates the sharing of knowledge across a broad audience and helps build company-wide best practices. The analysis definitions that can be built using the selector and stored centrally within the ProClarity Analytics Server promote uniform methods of analyzing and understanding far-reaching aspects of the business. The new ProClarity Business Reporter for Excel unites the familiar environment and features of Microsoft* Excel with the power and flexibility of ProClarity's multidimensional data analysis capabilities. Wizards guide users through the process of importing or exporting data from ProClarity products into Excel, while maintaining a continual link to the data source. Reports saved as Excel workbooks can be distributed securely via publishing to the ProClarity Analytics Server. Analytic Capabilities and Enterprise-Class Scalability The ProClarity Analytics Server promotes the broadest range of analytic capabilities including collaboration to ensure that user action can be taken in a timely manner. Fully interactive query results and patented data visualization can be published to the server or emailed directly to relevant decision makers, knowledge workers and stakeholders to ensure action is taken as quickly as possible. Tested in some of the most demanding environments, the ProClarity Analytics Server scales to support very large databases and high numbers of concurrent users. It centrally supports the management of security and the distribution of software, customizations and views, including shared business logic. "Release 5 of the ProClarity product family is designed to evolve with the ever-changing business and technology requirements of IT and business users over time, while ensuring broad user adoption and productivity throughout the enterprise," said Bob Lokken, president and CEO of ProClarity Corporation. "It is our goal to deliver world-class analytic solutions that ultimately make our customers more effective, productive, profitable and successful and we expect Release 5 to help our customers do just that." About ProClarity Corporation ProClarity Corporation delivers analytic software and services that increase the speed at which organizations can make informed decisions which are optimized to directly influence business performance. ProClarity has been delivering innovative analytic solutions to Global 3000 companies since 1995. ProClarity, a privately-held company, ensures maximum return on technology investment and widespread user adoption by delivering solutions tailored around business processes and decision-making workflows. Located in Idaho, USA, and with regional sales and services offices throughout Europe and Asia Pacific, ProClarity currently supports over 600 customers globally including, AT&T, CompUSA, Ericsson, GE Capital, Hewlett-Packard, Nabisco, and Verizon. ProClarity Analytics Platform OEM customers include ABC Technologies, Changepoint, comScore Networks, Epicor, FRx, Manhattan Associates, Manugistics, Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions and NetIQ/WebTrends. To learn more, visit www.proclarity.com or call 208 344 1630. ### ProClarity is a registered trademark, and the ProClarity logo is a trademark, of ProClarity Corporation. Other marks referenced herein are the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Contact: Angie O'Hara, Public Relations Manager +1 208.344.1630 x2133 aohara@proclarity.com