ANGOSS Software Announces Support for CommerceTrends 3.0 Platform from WebTrends.

Business Editors

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000

KnowledgeSTUDIO to Provide Advanced Data Mining and Data

Visualization Capabilities Extending Leading Platform for Visitor

Relationship Management

ANGOSS Software (CDNX:ANC.) Corporation, the industry leading developer of advanced data mining solutions that help business users make better business decisions every day, announced today that it will support CommerceTrends 3.0(TM), the industry's first platform for Visitor Relationship Management (VRM)(TM) from WebTrends Corporation.

To help businesses create a more holistic view of their web site visitors, ANGOSS will integrate KnowledgeSTUDIO(R), its data mining and data visualization platform, and KnowledgeExcelerator(R) and KnowledgeAccess(R), its data mining add-ins for Excel and Access, the popular spreadsheet and database applications of Microsoft Corporation, with CommerceTrends 3.0.

ANGOSS product offerings complement the CommerceTrends 3.0 platform, providing customers with unique capabilities to better understand the key drivers of their e-business success. With advanced, affordable and easy to use data mining and data visualization technology complementing the powerful web site visitor analysis and reporting capabilities of CommerceTrends, customers will be able to leverage their on-line data to increase conversion rates, strengthen their online communities, and maximize the impact of their marketing and affiliation strategies.

These advanced data mining and data visualization capabilities can also be used by CommerceTrends platform partners to enhance their content management, personalization and marketing automation solutions.

"We chose to support CommerceTrends because of WebTrends' experience in collecting and analyzing web data and its consistent track record of leadership in the web analytics space, as reflected in its significant business presence and the numerous industry awards it has received for its product offerings," commented Eric Apps, President of ANGOSS Software. "Industry and customer feedback suggests that Visitor Relationship Management is a new and rapidly evolving area where significant improvement can be made in the development and delivery of solutions that address the business challenges traditional and dot com companies are facing in their e-business initiatives, and the technical challenges of extracting and leveraging useful information from the Internet data environment. We believe CommerceTrends 3.0 will provide a great platform providing customers with the scalable, accurate results they need. By taking advantage of these capabilities, ANGOSS will be able to deliver more powerful, comprehensive solutions to our customers."

CommerceTrends 3.0 is the industry's first platform for Visitor Relationship Management, providing organizations with unparalleled capabilities to capture, analyze, and understand the behavior of web site visitors, better manage eMarketing campaigns, increase returns on eCommerce initiatives, and optimize personalized content on web sites to improve visitor experience. Built on a browser-based, cross-platform architecture, CommerceTrends' advanced functionality includes enterprise-scalable Web visitor analysis, campaign management, revenue forecasting, eMarketing ROI analysis, visitor and buyer qualification, database integration and Web data warehouse capabilities. Through its open architecture, CommerceTrends 3.0 delivers advanced Webhousing technology, providing business managers rich behavioral Web analysis that can be integrated with organizational databases such as CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Content Management or ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. The result is comprehensive Web visitor insights that can be explored through the CommerceTrends OLAP Manager and third-party data mining solutions to fuel more accurate personalization and targeted marketing efforts. For more information on CommerceTrends 3.0 please visit http://www.webtrends.com/products/commerce.

"Advanced data mining solutions are becoming increasingly important as organizations search for correlations between their web site offers and web visitor interactions, helping them build visitor relationships among all incoming business channels," said Joseph DePaola, Vice President of Business Development at WebTrends. "With CommerceTrends 3.0 and partnerships with industry leaders such as ANGOSS Software, we provide organizations an open Visitor Relationship Management system capable of providing deep web analysis and insight to more effectively turn Web site visitors into loyal customers."

About KnowledgeSTUDIO

KnowledgeSTUDIO is the flagship data mining and data visualization platform of ANGOSS Software, offering a comprehensive data mining and data visualization platform engineered to deliver highly scalable, easy to use and customizable analytic capabilities with a wide range of model deployment options, including SQL, Java and XML based model deployment capability. By providing support for the CommerceTrends 3.0 platform, organizations using the CommerceTrends platform will have the capability to quickly and seamlessly integrate advanced data mining and data visualization capabilities into their web analytics infrastructure.

About ANGOSS Software

ANGOSS Software Corporation, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, develops and delivers industry-leading data mining solutions to customers and technology partners "at the intersection of the Warehouse and the Web." ANGOSS customers use ANGOSS data mining solutions to make better business decisions every day. ANGOSS technology partners use ANGOSS data mining solutions to enable the intelligent enterprise.

      The ANGOSS KnowledgeSuite of advanced data mining solutions
includes:

* KnowledgeSEEKER(R) and KnowledgeSTUDIO(R), used by leading Global
  2000 companies in the financial services, retail, telecom, pharma /
  healthcare and advanced manufacturing sectors.
* KnowledgeExcelerator(R) and KnowledgeAccess(R), data mining add-ins
  for Excel and Access, the popular spreadsheet and database
  applications of Microsoft Corporation.
* KnowledgeSTUDIO for Siebel, a data mining solution for users of the
  Siebel Systems e-CRM sales and marketing application suites
* KnowledgeWebMiner(TM), a data mining solution for e-business
  marketing professionals.
* The KnowledgeSTUDIO SDK, a software development kit leveraging
  Microsoft developer tools, standards and technologies used by ANGOSS
  customers and technology partners to support rapid and
  cost-effective implementations of advanced data mining technology in
  a broad range of customer environments and partner enterprise
  application suites.

VisibleWeb(TM), an advanced data mining and data visualization solution for e-business, is currently planned for release in 2000. VisibleWarehouse(TM), an advanced data mining and data visualization solution for data warehousing systems, is currently planned for release in 2001. Both solutions will be based on KnowledgeExplorer(TM), a browser based implementation of ANGOSS KnowledgeSTUDIO data mining components for users of Internet Explorer from Microsoft(R) Corporation.

Note to editors: If you are interested in viewing additional information on ANGOSS, please go to www.angoss.com.

WebTrends is a registered trademark of WebTrends Corporation. VRM, eVRM, Visitor Relationship Management, Manage Your Visitors and Intelligent Visitor Management are trademarks of WebTrends Corporation. All other brands or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products and services of, their respective owners.

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