Cypress Semiconductor Selects Noetix to Facilitate Oracle 11i Upgrade Process; Noetix Enterprise Technology Suite Complements Existing BI Tools and Facilitates Reporting.

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BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002

Noetix(R) Corp., a global infrastructure software provider that unlocks corporate data and empowers decision-makers to answer their own business questions, today announced that Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has employed the Noetix Enterprise Technology Suite(TM) (NETS) to protect its existing reports during its upgrade to Oracle's E-Business Suite 11i.

Noetix has developed a proprietary auto-discovery technology that shields established business queries and reports from data structure changes common during 11i upgrades. NETS systematically maps a company's complex and unique Oracle table structure, immediately linking 10.7 application queries to 11i and massively reducing the time and expense typically spent on the changeover.

"We were looking for a turn-key solution that would not only ensure our controllers' reports, such as trend analyses, would remain in place but would also make certain we wouldn't lose visibility to important data before our upgrade to Oracle 11i," said Maurice Carson, vice president of finance at Cypress Semiconductor. "We chose Noetix because it provided minimal maintenance and ongoing support, which we did not find with the other solutions we reviewed. In five days, NETS integrated our management reporting process across 13 different business units, supporting our current reporting tool and ensuring none of those existing, personally customized reports were lost during the 11i upgrade."

For example, Cypress was using an ad hoc query tool for the past five years that its controllers had been sharing and customizing. When the company was preparing to upgrade to 11i, it knew the potential of these reports breaking was high, due to structural changes common in ERP vendor upgrades. Introducing NETS prior to this process has allowed Cypress users to continue using their existing reports and has added 226 out-of-the-box reports that can be quickly customized by each Cypress Semiconductor user.

Thirty-six percent of organizations have upgraded to 11i and another 24 percent will have completed their upgrade by the end of the year when Oracle's support of 10.7 concludes. NETS saves companies time and money on the upgrade process because its auto-discovery technology automatically analyzes each user's unique Oracle Application implementation, detects its custom configurations, catalogs the data and creates a library of metadata. With NETS, users are ensured accelerated customer report development, faster answers to business questions and protection for reports during upgrades.

About Noetix

Noetix provides global infrastructure software to unlock corporate data, enabling companies to manage the secure distribution of business data across the wired and wireless Internet. Corporations using the Noetix solution can automatically map complex, fragmented data and translate it into understandable business terms. Noetix technology is easy to implement, works with existing tools and is extensible due to its open architecture. Noetix has more than 1,000 customers including Motorola, Sony, Starbucks, AT&T and Yahoo! The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with international operations based in London. For more information about Noetix, visit their Web site at www.noetix.com or call toll free at 866-4NOETIX.

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY) is "Driving the Communications Revolution"(TM) with high-performance integrated circuits for network infrastructure and access equipment. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, the company designs and manufactures solutions targeted across wireless and wireline communications. Cypress supports a wide range of industry standards, such as SONET (OC-48 and above), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), InfiniBand(TM) and Gigabit Ethernet. The company's communications product lines include programmable high-speed physical layer devices (PHYs), wirespeed network search engines (NSEs) and network coprocessors (NCPs) and datapath switching elements (DSEs). Cypress is also the industry's leader in communications timing solutions, networking-optimized communications memories and personal connectivity solutions, such as USB and Bluetooth.

Cypress is a leader in pure optical and optoelectronic technologies designed to push network transmissions to higher performance levels and to satisfy the increasing demand for network bandwidth. With a focus on emerging communications applications, Cypress aims to become the preferred silicon supplier for network infrastructure solutions and for every network data stream to pass through at least one Cypress IC.

Cypress employs 4,000 people worldwide. More information about Cypress is accessible on the Web at: www.cypress.com.

Noetix and the Noetix Enterprise Technology Suite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Noetix Corp.