November 25, 2004

Intersoft Lab is proud to announce the immediate commercial
availability of its new software product for interactive reporting and
data analysis - Contour OLAPBrowser. This product is intended for
businesses and enterprises of all sizes and industries. It does not
require any extra server ardware or software and is extremely simple
in installation, learning and deployment. Contour OLAPBrowser stands
in one row with industry leaders by features, and its exrtemely high
performance in couple with low cost and ease of deployment make
Contour OLAPBrowser ideal solution for small and medium enterprises,
and for local projects of large corporations.

The company's mission is to provide clients with full range of tools
that allowed them to easily build architecturally flexible systems.
Software companies and IT departments using in their solutions
ContourCube OLAP component and Contour CubeMaker tool can take profit
of the full range of Contour OLAP products by using Contour
OLAPBrowser as a powerful front-end to their data warehouses, ERPs and
other systems based on Contour software platform.

About Contour OLAPBrowser
Contour OLAPBrowser is a web-oriented 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.

Use Contour OLAPBrowser to create global and enterprise information
delivery systems, OLAP solutions for workgroups, Executive Information
Systems, and personal analytical applications.

Contour OLAPBrowser Benefits

Interactive user-friendly reporter for wide range of users
Contour OLAPBrowser offers easy to use user-friendly interface. Every
user familiar with Internet Explorer and a spreadsheet editor can
learn OLAPBrowser in 30 minutes.

Fast deployment, zero administration, unlimited scalability
OLAPBrowser does not need any specific server. Users should just
install the program to work with microcubes. Microcube can be created
once and scheduled for regular update, stored anywhere and does not
require any maintenance at all. Thousands of users can view one
microcube at the same time because OLAPBrowser performs all
calculation at client side.

Data access flexibility
OLAPBrowser can open microcubes across the corporate LAN, WAN, Web,
and microcubes received by e-mail. User can type URL of a microcube in
the address field of OLAPBrowser, or click on a link to a microcube
placed on a web server and view corporate or public reports. User can
open a microcube from a file server or local directory, and send or
receive microcubes by email. So IT-managers can create very simple and
flexible enterprise reporting systems.

Interactive data analysis and reporting with sub-second response times
Contour OLAPBrowser allows users to interactively analyze data, build
and print reports by clicking and drag&dropping with sub-second
response times. Users can dynamically interact with data: move rows
and columns, filter data, drill-down, roll-up, pivot table and get all
possible reports from one dataset. Contour OLAPBrowser makes millions
of calculations simultaneously and shows new subtotals and totals
instantly.

Microcube - a universal mobile container of interactive reports
OLAPBrowser gets data and reports views from Contour microcubes.
Contour microcube is a new concept of multidimensional database. It
stores not only extremely compressed data but all reports definitions
in a single file. So any application powered with ContourCube can
generate microcubes and define report layouts and many other
applications will be able to view and print those reports. OLAPBrowser
can show reports generated by ERP, CRM or any other 3rd party systems
with ContourCube embedded, by Contour CubeMaker and by OLAPBrowser
itself.
Users can use microcube like Excel book that stores data and reports
in one file. Microcube can be created by one person, published
anywhere and then shared with other persons, who can read it, change
and share like an Excel workbook.

Very compact storage, very fast data loading
Microcube stores data in very compact form. Source data loaded into
microcube is compressed by 90% up to 99.9%, so you can publish this
file to a web, send it by e-mail and save it on your laptop. Imagine
that data for all sales of your company for this year can be stored in
one single file of 1 or 2 MB. You can save this file at your mobile PC
and work with it anywhere. That is why Contour OLAPBrowser loads
microcubes very fast. You have only to wait for a second to see a
report that aggregates hundreds of thousand records from the source
database.

Rich analysis, data manipulation and interactive reporting
capabilities
Contour OLAPBrowser has many features for data manipulation using
advanced OLAP technology. It allows to dynamically drill down through
the data, provides many built-in functions for calculations on
measures. Easy to use and powerful Formula Language dynamically
performs custom calculations.

High quality data visualization
OLAPBrowser allows to rapidly set colors, fonts, header & footer,
create charts for better understanding of data. Users can create new
reports and change layout of exiting reports, add and remove
calculated fields. Conditional styles gathered in cascaded stylesheets
allow to highlight important fact values, so user get data in a nice
and clear form.

Reports distribution technology
Contour OLAPBrowser provides ready to use powerful and affordable
technology for delivering reports to a wide range of users through
extranet, intranet, internet and email.


You can purchase Contour OLAPBrowser right now for as low as $200.
More reductions are provided for volume purchases.

George Vlassov
ContourComponents support manager

George Vlassov wrote:

Does it have write back?

J

No, Contour OLAP software doesn't support this: it's primarily
intended for producing OLAP reports, not for editing its source data.
On the other hand, this restriction contributes to the performance of
Contour products.

George