Juice Pro to Enable the Real-Time Microsoft Excel Desktop; First Hosted Solution to Deliver Automated and Secure Business Reporting to Excel Users

NEW YORK, NY, Nov. 21, 2003--Juice Software(R), Inc., provider of real-time business reporting software for the Excel-driven enterprise, today introduced Juice Pro, the first "hosted" business reporting and data integration solution for Microsoft Excel users. Juice Pro provides business professionals with greater flexibility in gaining access to critical information available both within and outside of the enterprise.

Juice Pro is the third product in the real-time business reporting suite (in addition to Juice Workgroup and Juice Enterprise) targeted at Microsoft Excel-intensive users and organizations. It provides business users of Excel with a hosted solution that can easily access and co-mingle a wealth of information and content from multiple data sources including corporate databases, web content, and other ASPs (application service providers).

Juice Software is continuing to broaden its reach to business users by working closely with a number of leading third-party web content and application service providers, in order to offer seamless and business user-friendly reporting and information access directly from within Excel. A number of related announcements will be released in the coming months.

"Juice Software's single focus is empowering non-technical business users to make optimal decisions by providing painless access to any and all the business information they require," said Eric Yau, CEO of Juice Software. "As we continue to add transparent support to the leading third-party applications, hosted services, and web content, more and more business users will enjoy seamless access to the right information in order to make the right business decisions. "

The new offering provides real-time, secure, and dynamic business reporting, eliminating the need for customers to invest beyond their current Microsoft Excel environment. Through a hosted client/server model, Juice Software cost-effectively delivers greater business reporting advantages, while leveraging the familiar Excel desktop application.

Key business benefits include:

-- Full leverage of existing Microsoft Excel applications, templates and user interface by eliminating the need for the business users to learn and work with yet another proprietary reporting tool.

-- Business-user friendly hosted solution that does not require complicated and expensive hardware, software, configuration, and user training.

-- Real-time and secure access to a wide variety of information sources both inside and outside the enterprise, directly from within Microsoft Excel, while keeping the full functionality and flexibility of Microsoft Excel for ad-hoc analysis, charting, and presentation.

-- Dramatic improvement in business reporting accuracy and timeliness, resulting in enhanced business user decision-making and productivity.

Business users of Excel can sign up for a free 60-day test-drive of Juice Pro by visiting www.juice.com. For more information about Juice business reporting solutions visit the Juice Software web site at www.juice.com or call 1-866-JUICE-IT.

About Juice Software

Juice Software, Inc. (www.juice.com) integrates Excel with enterprise systems for real-time business reporting. Using Juice, Excel users directly connect to virtually any enterprise system including SAP, Siebel, Salesforce.com, Bloomberg, Hyperion Essbase, Websites, and other spreadsheets. Business users access live enterprise data without training or complex programming, leveraging existing investments in desktop tools and infrastructure.

Juice Software customers make better informed business decisions, reduce IT workloads, and achieve greater value from existing IT investments. "Juiced" Excel applications are in production at leading financial, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing corporations around the globe, and include solutions for risk management, sales forecasting and pipeline tracking, budgeting and compensation planning, and demand planning.

All products mentioned in this release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

  
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