City of Cockburn Wins Best Practice Award Using CorVu.

Business Editors

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000

Western Australia Municipalities select CorVu's Balanced

Scorecard to better serve community needs

CorVu Corporation (CRVUE NASDAQ: bb), a leading provider of Enterprise e-Business Performance Management, Business Intelligence and Balanced Scorecard solutions, announced today that the Cities of Cockburn and Melville, Western Australia, have selected CorVu's Business Performance Management system to better serve community needs. The City of Cockburn has won the Western Australia Municipal Association's 1999 Best Practice Performance Measurement 'Whole of Organization' Award.

The City of Melville has also selected CorVu to automate its paper-based Balanced Scorecard. By providing real-time performance data, the system is designed to help senior management measure strategic goals throughout the entire organization. The City of Melville was also recognized for its excellence in performance management at the Western Australia Municipal Association Awards. It won both a Best Practice in Local Government Award and the Alcoa Leadership in Local Government Award.

Justin MacIntosh, CEO, CorVu comments, &uot;The recognition these cities have received as a result of their CorVu-facilitated performance management systems demonstrates the return on investment our applications deliver.&uot;

Changing with the times

&uot;Local Government has gone through significant change in recent years,&uot; relates Rod Brown, chief executive, City of Cockburn. &uot;We had to modernize our services to keep up with an increasingly demanding public agenda. Cockburn is renowned for its ship building industry and has a growing population of 66,000. As with most local governments, the City of Cockburn provides a wide variety of services to its residents, such as emergency services, environmental protection and city planning. However, the council didn't have the means to measure the performance of these services.&uot;

The selection process

&uot;We had invested a lot of management time and effort in developing our corporate strategy statements,&uot; said Rod Brown. &uot;We realized we needed one system that would let us track, interpret and communicate performance across the entire organization. CorVu's Business Performance Management system was the answer.&uot;

The City of Cockburn employed an independent consulting firm, The Performance Corporation, to research the market and find the performance management strategy best suited for the City's needs. Bernard Morris, executive director, The Performance Corporation explains, &uot;We recommended the City of Cockburn implement CorVu. The city council needed to unify its diverse services into one system. CorVu can import data from any system in the organization, and produce a single scorecard. This scorecard is then accessible to all managers.&uot;

And the winner is...

&uot;We were delighted to win the award. This is the first time the Best Practice Award for Performance Management has been given to an entire organization&uot; comments Rod Brown, chief executive, City of Cockburn. &uot;The concept of an automated balanced scorecard was new to many of us, yet we soon recognized its advantages. With CorVu, we can collect data from all over the organization to get one comprehensive report.&uot;

Giving managers control over performance

Aussie Crothers, director finance &corporate services, City of Cockburn states, &uot;Before implementing CorVu, we were dealing with a vast amount of scorecards and several data sources across a wide area of services.&uot;

&uot;CorVu's system takes all that complexity and presents it in a simple and effective way. We can now assess information from one balanced scorecard, and then report on those results. CorVu gives managers a clear picture of their responsibility and how this fits into the overall corporate performance plan.&uot;

CorVu Solutions

CorVu delivers Enterprise e-Business Performance Management, Business Intelligence and Balanced Scorecard solutions designed to help organizations capture the strategic and competitive value of their information storehouses. CorBusiness is a complete e-Business Intelligence solution that includes end-user query/reporting, OLAP analysis and executive dashboards. CorManage is designed to satisfy mission critical Business Performance Management needs by combining CorBusiness with a comprehensive Balanced Scorecard offering.

About the Balanced Scorecard

Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr. David Norton introduced their business performance methodology called the Balanced Scorecard in their 1992 Harvard Business Review article, &uot;The Balanced Scorecard - Measures that Drive Performance.&uot; The Balanced Scorecard recognizes four dimensions that are integral to developing an enterprise view of performance: financial, customer, internal and innovation. Implementing the Balanced Scorecard as a business performance management system enables an organization to translate the mission statement and strategy into specific goals and measurements. These goals and measurements are communicated throughout the entire organization, thus providing guidelines as to how each employee contributes to the success of the organization.

About CorVu Corporation

CorVu is a leading global provider of provider Enterprise e-Business Performance Management, Balanced Scorecard and Business Intelligence Solutions. Combining OLAP query and reporting, executive dashboard alerts, forecasting, and Balanced Scorecard applications, CorVu provides a complete Enterprise Business Performance Management solution. CorVu has U.S. offices in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.; Asia Pacific offices in Sydney, Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth; and European offices in London, Munich, Sheffield, Stockholm and Rotterdam. With more than 2500 customers, including companies such as BHP, Datacard, Mincom, Prudential, Johnson &Johnson, Unisys, Ford Motor Company and BF Goodrich, CorVu's Enterprise Business Performance Management solutions are gaining broad market acceptance. Additional information about CorVu products and services can be found on CorVu's web site at http://www.corvu.com or call [phone].