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Extraprise Delivers Insight-to-Interaction Platform Release 2.0; Latest Insight-to-Interaction Release Includes a Comprehensive B2B Data Model, E-Mail Campaign Integration, an Integrated Support System, and an Enhanced Security Profile.


BOSTON -- Extraprise(R), the only hybrid database marketing provider and systems integrator, today announced that it has delivered Release 2.0 of its Insight-to-Interaction (i2i) software platform. The hardware and software platform includes a new comprehensive B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G.

B2B - business to business
 data model, e-mail campaign integration, an integrated client support system, and an enhanced security profile.

"Companies are demanding a sophisticated database marketing system that is fully-integrated with the way they do business day-to-day, throughout the company, and across functional organizations," said Mike Shanker, EVP EVP Executive Vice President
EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor
EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon
EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany)
EVP Employee Value Proposition
 of sales and marketing, adding, "Insight-to-Interaction is designed to meet this demand and is the kind of foundation upon which marketing databases of the future will be built."

The i2i platform is a unique approach to help companies manage customer data, develop better insights, and use this information to increase the value of each customer interaction. The i2i approach enables clients to consolidate multiple customer data sources, segment customers by value, develop predictive models, manage demand generation campaigns, and automate their operational systems across customer channels. With Insight-to-Interaction, Extraprise is the first database marketer to solve the "last mile problem" by getting fresh leads and marketing insight into the hands of employees that can use them to generate more revenue and increase customer satisfaction.

Insight-to-Interaction Release 2.0

"The database marketing industry has been a leader in integrating and analyzing large volumes of client data," said William Blundon, EVP of Extraprise Product Development and Support. "In many other areas, however, the industry is out of step with best information technology practices. Extraprise has made dramatic strides in creating what we believe will be an industry-leading technology platform for years to come."

The latest release of the Extraprise database marketing platform includes a comprehensive B2B model created using an advanced dimensional modeling Dimensional modeling (DM) is the name of a logical design technique often used for data warehouses. It is different from, and contrasts with, entity-relationship modeling (ER). According to Prof.  methodology. The platform is supported by a conceptual, logical, and physical data mode that spans both the company's data mart A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse.  and analytical database. Clients may customize the conceptual model and Extraprise will produce an optimized logical data model for them as both a star schema A data warehouse design that enhances the performance of multidimensional queries on traditional relational databases. One fact table is surrounded by a series of related tables. Data is joined from one of the points to the center, providing a so-called "star query." See OLAP.  and relational view. Extraprise can automatically produce physical data models for its standard SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server.  data mart, its Alterian analytical database, and other relational database relational database

Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple.
 products.

Release 2.0 also includes integration with an enterprise e-mail campaign system from Epsilon Interactive. Extraprise has integrated this DREAM e-mail software with its data mart for seamless response handling. In addition, Extraprise has implemented a sophisticated client support system using technology from salesforce.com. The system includes a role-based ticketing system and integral escalation logic. Release 2.0 also enables clients to log and track issues by providing:

--Licensed users access into the system to create a new support case

--Access to a self-service portal that automatically creates a case

--A mechanism to send an e-mail to a standard support address and enabling an e-mail-to-case agent to automatically create a case

The new release also includes an improved security profile including encryption of all sensitive data prior to tape backup, and communications using a virtual private network (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) operating through a secure sockets layer (networking, security) Secure Sockets Layer - (SSL) A protocol designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide secure communications over the Internet using asymmetric key encryption.  (SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. ) tunnel via hardened Citrix gateway appliances. As part of Release 2.0, Extraprise also implemented new security protocols including a new security incident response policy compatible with National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest.  (NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ) guidelines. All Insight-to-Interaction platforms are hosted at a high availability, high security data center managed by AT&T and Extraprise.

About Extraprise

Extraprise(R) is the first company to combine database marketing services with systems integration expertise to help companies overcome the "last mile" challenge of getting high-quality leads and marketing insight into the hands of employees that need them. The company offers a set of business and technical services and a market-leading database marketing platform called Insight-to-Interaction (i2i). Extraprise's i2i solutions combine data management, business insight, demand generation, and customer management and are available as a turnkey hosted service or on-premise at the client's location. Extraprise is headquartered in Boston with offices throughout the U.S. For more information, visit www.extraprise.com.
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