KSolutions, Inc. Awarded 2002 Tech-Ed Business Productivity Award for Best Use of Business Intelligence Technologies.

Business/Technology Editors

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2002

Solution Effectively Tackles Problem of Business Intelligence,

Quantitative Analytics and Data Mining

KSolutions, Inc., a knowledge-based solutions company, has won an award in the Microsoft Tech-Ed Business Productivity Awards 2002 in the category of Best Use of Business Intelligence Technologies for their K.Central Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboard solution. Tightly integrated with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Office XP, the BI Dashboard effectively tackles the problem of deploying daily updated business intelligence, quantitative analytics, and data mining results to business users with little or no analytical expertise. Steve Cranford, CEO at KSolutions commented, "Gartner had it right when they said business intelligence is not about technology, but how you use it. At KSolutions, we believe it's imperative for businesses to understand their analytical results in context with the business strategy. We've engineered this theme into the K.Central Business Intelligence Dashboard and the result is a solution that can be used by everyone in the enterprise to improve their performance."

"This application is clearly designed to impact the bottom-line not just through increased general productivity but also through the delivery and presentation of information targeted at increasing sales and customer satisfaction. Add to those benefits the reduced cost for deployment and the minimal training requirements and you have an application I expect will start paying for itself almost immediately," said Ian Campbell, Senior Vice President, Research, Nucleus Research, Inc.

SharePoint Portal Server is the flexible portal solution from Microsoft that allows companies to easily find, share and publish information. SharePoint Portal Server provides a focal point for finding relevant information stored across multiple data sources, including SharePoint Team Services Web sites, Exchange data stores, file shares, Notes databases, and Internet sites. The server combines industry-leading, enterprise-level search functionality with one of the only integrated portal and document management solutions on the market, resulting in a flexible, easily customizable enterprise portal.

The K.Central BI Dashboard provides users with up-to-date customer intelligence including:

-- Reporting of past financial information (revenues and profits)

-- Descriptive analytics such as purchasing recency, frequency,

and product mixes

-- Trending and behavioral forecasting information

-- Predictive data mining models that assess the likelihood of customer attrition.

By combining a suite of Microsoft applications with KSolutions' data and dashboard development architectures, the K.Central BI Dashboard is a highly repeatable, yet customizable solution for deploying business intelligence and advanced analytics to casual business users for actionable results.

"KSolutions' K.Central Business Intelligence Dashboard provides a valuable solution for increasing business productivity within an organization," said Gytis Barzdukas, group product manager for the Portal Business Group at Microsoft. "We are excited to be working with KSolutions to offer companies an exciting new solution that extends the benefit of SharePoint and delivers compelling business value to our mutual customers."

This solution combines the power of Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server 2001, Office Web components, XML/XSLT, SQL Server, analysis services, and data transformation services. "KSolutions does an admirable job of providing understandable and useful information to sales people. Its approachability was immediately apparent," said Kevin Weeks, Editor-in-chief, Microsoft Office Solutions.

About KSolutions, Inc.

KSolutions is a full-service provider of knowledge-based services and solutions. KSolutions helps companies identify, capture, share and apply intellectual capital within and throughout an enterprise. At KSolutions, the mission is to help businesses transform their current operations to a new business model, one that is suited for the new digital economy. To accomplish this, KSolutions integrates people, processes and technology within a strategic context, resulting in a thriving knowledge ecology. For more information about KSolutions, visit www.ksolutionsinc.com.

For more information, press only:

Ken Collier, PhD, KSolutions, Inc., [phone], [e-mail]

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