ADVISORY/firstRain Webletter to Tackle Business Monitoring Issues; Insight Targeted at Efficiently Connecting People, Systems, and Information.

Business Editors

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Jan. 15)

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firstRain:

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WHAT: Insight is an informative webletter featuring executive
intelligence from firstRain that provides perspective on Business
Monitoring, explores pressing business issues, and features Gartner
research on industry and technology trends.

Business monitoring helps companies effectively discover, extract,
classify and route critical information to employees who need it,
ensuring users receive precisely the information they need, exactly
when they need it. The first issue of Insight clearly introduces the
concept of business monitoring software, its applicability to most any
industry, and how it is being used to solve today's tough business
problems.

Insight articles include:

    --  Turning the Theory of BAM Into a Working Reality

    --  Business Monitoring: Making it Work

    --  Business Monitoring Solutions Matrix

WHO: firstRain provides large corporations with business
monitoring solutions that efficiently connect people, systems, and
information, improving their performance and providing greater insight
into their marketplace. The firstRain platform is used to create
powerful Business Monitoring software solutions that enable large
corporations to monitor, transform, filter, and route critical
business information to employees who need it. firstRain is a private,
venture-backed company with headquarters in New York City. For more
information on firstRain products and services, please visit firstRain
at www.firstRain.com.

WHEN: Available for download beginning on Wednesday, January 15, 2003.

      Insight will be published on a monthly basis.

WHERE: http://www.gartner.com/gc/webletter/firstrain/issue1/index.html