DecisionCast Completes End-to-End Financial Reporting and Analysis Solution; DecisionPoint Responds to Market Demand for Financial Accountability Solution.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

DecisionPoint(R) Applications, the leading provider of Active Decision Support solutions for ERP reporting, today announced the general availability of DecisionCast(TM) v.1.1.

DecisionCast is a variance-based financial report and alert distribution solution designed for enterprise-wide usage.

DecisionCast delivers business critical information to decision-makers in time to respond to emerging problems or take advantage of potential opportunities. The built-in Active Alert technology monitors corporate data to detect variances from anticipated business goals. DecisionCast sends the alerts with reports throughout the organization to mobilize an intelligent and coordinated response at all levels of the company.

With the PersonalCast(TM) feature, DecisionCast assembles data from a single query into custom reports and alerts for many people. This "report bursting" capability makes it easy to develop and sustain a personalized information delivery system that serves the entire enterprise without stressing IT resources.

DecisionCast offers flexible reporting and distribution features that allow companies to transition to DecisionCast without disrupting current business processes or changing the way managers see and interpret information. The unique streamlined report distribution feature separates report definitions from reusable distribution lists, making it the easiest report distribution system to set up and maintain.

"Today's enterprise reporting solutions must include streamlined automated report distribution to reach a more involved and accountable management audience, and they should be cost-effective and easy to administer to meet the needs of IT," said John Van Decker, Senior Program Director, META Group. "For companies to successfully navigate future competitive marketplaces and meet increasing demands for corporate accountability and visibility, proactive variance-based business alerting will become an important requirement."

DecisionCast, created in direct response to customer feedback, fills all of the above requirements.

"Our customers told us they wanted an easy way to distribute personalized reports for decision-makers to evaluate business performance and make better financial decisions on a daily basis," said Franz Funk, Vice President of Product Management at DecisionPoint. "They were tired of creating their own technology solutions with so-called best-of-breed products which they perceived as being too complex for a general business population, onerous to the IT department, and not cost-effective."

With the release of DecisionCast, DecisionPoint is the only vendor to provide fully integrated, end-to-end decision support solutions for Financials, Distribution, Manufacturing, and Human Resources. DecisionPoint's solution detects and analyzes customizations made to source ERP systems prior to data extractions, intelligently loads the data into a data warehouse that is predefined for over seventy analytical business models, and with DecisionCast makes analytical information highly accessible and understandable to general business users.

About DecisionPoint

DecisionPoint delivers financial analytics, web-based reporting, and a complete data warehouse solution, with implementation in 8 weeks or less. DecisionPoint's Active Decision Support solutions enables key decision makers to manage financial performance by accessing and customizing mission critical business information easily, efficiently, and affordably, helping customers increase operational effectiveness, control costs, manage corporate risk, and enhance revenue. Global 2000 companies using DecisionPoint include Sony, Aetna, British Telecom, New Zealand Milk, and Imation Corp. Founded in 1996, DecisionPoint is based in Beaverton, Oregon.