Features of Instant Data Warehouse ‘White Paper’ Available

1. Features of Instant Data Warehouse ‘White Paper’ Available This ‘White Paper’ is only available to prospective clients who are serious about evaluating the Instant Data Warehouse for purchase by their company. We strongly discourage ‘tire kicking’. If you are seriously evaluating the Instant Data Warehouse for purchase by your company and you feel you need more details than that currently provided as public documents we would be pleased to provide you with a copy of this ‘White Paper’. For those readers who are ‘interested’ and ‘wondering’ what the ‘compelling unique features’ of the Instant Data Warehouse are we have reproduced the Summary Page from the ‘White paper’ on the following page… The Instant Business Intelligence Team • 8/4/2005 -- Instant Business Intelligence announces availability of detailed ‘White Paper’ on the features of the Instant Data Warehouse. • Today we are very pleased to announce the availability of a detailed ‘White Paper’ which documents the unique and high value features of the Instant Data Warehouse. • Since creating our web site and talking to more prospective customers we have been asked occasionally to ‘compare’ the Instant Data Warehouse with other ETL products. • Our usual answer is: • ‘There is no comparison. The IDW does everything you will need, can be extended to do anything new you come up with and performs a wide range of functions that XYZ does not. And it’s 10% of the price.’ • However, some prospective clients have requested ‘more detail please’. In response to this request we have created a detailed ‘White paper’ which documents and summarises our view of: • The compelling and unique features of the IDW • The other higher value features of the IDW that you might find in one or more other ETL tools. PressRelease

2. Summary IDW has unique compelling features such as: • Codeless • Mappingless • Typeless • 100% transportable across databases/operating systems • Multi-Level Everything These are features unavailable in products costing 20X (and more) of the price of IDW. IDW has other highly valuable features: • Capturing all types of source data • Ability to produce Load Interface Files • Ability to perform insert/delete/insert for Sybase IQ. • Endless zero cost scalability • Automated correlations of dimension table lookups • Parameter controlled aggregations • Incremental aggregations • In place consolidation of incremental aggregates We have been developing EDWs for over 14 years. The IDW was written to assist us in our every day activities of implementing large complex EDWs. At it’s current list price the IDW is a compelling buy for any company implementing an EDW. We know this. The only question for you to answer four yourself is: ‘Do I want to cut the cost of implementing my Data Warehouse?’ • Our Summary? • We have said that we believe the Instant Data Warehouse is a compelling purchase for any company implementing a data warehouse based on two features alone: • The IDW is less than 5% of the price of ‘vendor’ ETL tools. • The IDW is around 10x more productive than the ‘vendor’ ETL tools. • We firmly believe these two features alone are enough for any company to make a buy decision for the IDW. • This is especially so because a full evaluation version of the software is downloadable from our web site. If you do not believe any individual claim we make you can download the product and try it out for yourself. • You will find that everything we have said is true. • Even so, we have been asked to ‘compare’ our product with others available on the marketplace. • Instead of performing a detailed comparison by name, we have listed those features which we believe to be unique to the IDW as well as those features of the IDW that we know from our vast experience are of high value to any company implementing an EDW. • We are more than willing to perform a specific confidential comparison with any ETL tool you are prepared to provide us a license for at our standard consulting fee. Clearly we do not have licenses for ‘vendor’ ETL products. They are expensive. PressRelease