June 23, 2004

Dear developers,

Intersoft Lab announces the immediate commercial availability of the
new product versions:
- ContourCube 2.0 ActiveX / VCL for Borland C++ Builder
- Contour CubeMaker 2.0
In this announce, you'll find top features added to the new versions
of Contour components and tools, as well as of the new upcoming
product of the Contour family - Contour OLAPBrowser.

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ContourCube 2.0 ActiveX and VCL for Borland C++ Builder

ContourCube is a high-performance OLAP component for interactive
reporting and data analysis. It offers embeddable OLAP technology for
Windows and web applications based on relational data. Application
powered with ContourCube allows non technical users to create tons of
nice-formed screen and printable reports in minute, slice and dice,
drill down and roll up without additional OLAP server.
ContourCube is one of the leaders in the market of desktop OLAP
components. It represents the new generation of embeddable OLAP
controls, providing functionality and performance comparable to modern
OLAP servers.
New improvements in version 2.0 are focused on programming
suitability, calculation capabilities and data visualization features:
- New object model
- Multidimensional formula language
- Flexible percentage calculations
- Higher Degree Of Interactivity
- Conditional styles
- Hierarchical dimension filtering
- XML data support (for ContourCube VCL)
- Printing feature
- Runtime editors
- Cell and DataPoint objects
- Conditional filtering of dimensions
- Enhanced printing capabilities
- Localization technology
- A lot of other improvements

See complete list of features at ContourCube product home page:
http://www.contourcomponents.com/contourcube.htm
Download free ContourCube 2.0 Trial from
http://www.contourcomponents.com/con...e_download.htm
Purchase ContourCube 2.0 online from
http://www.contourcomponents.com/contourcube_order.htm
Clients purchased earlier version in last three months, request a free
upgrade at http://www.contourcomponents.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi

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Contour CubeMaker 2.0

Contour CubeMaker produces Contour microcubes - multidimensional
databases that contain both data and metadata describing the user
interface layouts. These very compact cubes can then be transferred
via the Internet or attached to an email message for use in a
ContourCube application providing interactive analysis and reporting.
Using Contour CubeMaker in conjunction with your ContourCube powered
application allows you to create and update Web pages that provide
data filtering and summarizing capabilities to a wide range of users,
Windows applications for corporate users, Internet/Intranet sites with
downloadable microcubes, mailing systems for report distribution.
In version 2.0, we implemented loading source data from XML files,
which can be located either locally, or on a web server, or in a FTP
directory. This allowed to build flexible systems based on various
platforms, to read data directly by URL, this way getting online data
from remote branches of your organization, or load information from a
secure remote database.
The function of reading multiple data files from local disk or FTP
location by a wildcard has been introduced. Loaded files are
automatically merged, which enables easy creating of data collecting
systems, or XML data marts.
Also, Contour CubeMaker 2.0 Trial does no more display evaluation
dialog upon each launch. This has been made in order to allow users to
try running CubeMaker in background mode, for example, run from an
Active Server Page.
The new version includes advanced ASP Web Solution Demo, intended for
report distribution. It allows end users to interactively create new
reports and distribute them by email or immediately open with new
Contour product - OLAP Browser.

See detailed product information at Contour CubeMaker home page:
http://www.contourcomponents.com/cubemaker.htm
Download free Contour CubeMaker 2.0 Trial from
http://www.contourcomponents.com/cubemaker_download.htm
Purchase Contour CubeMaker 2.0 online from
http://www.contourcomponents.com/cubemaker_order.htm
Clients purchased earlier version in last three months, request a free
upgrade at http://www.contourcomponents.com/cgi-bin/register.cgi

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Coming soon - Contour OLAPBrowser

Contour OLAPBrowser is a web-oriented end-user software for data
access, analysis and interactive reporting on a single PC, on the
local network or on the web. It provides multi-windowed user interface
for viewing interactive reports, web pages and MS Office documents in
a single application. With OLAPBrowser users can slice and dice
through data, make graphical analysis, configure and print multiple
reports with sub-second response times.
Contour OLAPBrowser gets data and reports from Contour microcubes,
which are mobile report containers storing extremely compressed
multidimensional databases and sets of nice formed reports. Such file
can be published to web sites, network directories, or sent by email.
OLAPBrowser has easy to use and user-friendly interface based on MS
Internet Explorer. User should just type the URL of the microcube he
wants in the Address bar or click a link on the web page to receive a
pack of his company's reports.

See more on Contour OLAPBrowser at
http://www.contourcomponents.com/olapbrowser.htm

Home page of Contour Components and Tools:
http://www.contourcomponents.com
Your feedback is highly appreciated.


George Vlassov
Support manager
Intersoft Lab
support (AT) contourcomponents (DOT) com