Open Data signs Winsoft for international distribution of FindOut!

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1995--Open Data Corp. today announced that it has entered into an international distribution agreement for its next-generation FindOut! end user data access tool with Winsoft Products Ltd., Marlow, England.

Under terms of the agreement, Winsoft will market and sell FindOut! through a network of distributors to customers in Europe, South Africa, the Middle and Far East, Australia and New Zealand.

"Winsoft has the experience and track record we were looking for in selling client/server solutions to a diverse range of customers throughout the world, and we're pleased that they'll be representing Open Data," said Tony Giannelli, Open Data's vice president of marketing. "We look forward to supporting their sales efforts with training, education and other services required to successfully promote FindOut! to Winsoft's international channels."

According to Winsoft, FindOut! is a perfect fit for its portfolio of leading client/server products. "FindOut! meets our charter to provide high quality, business intelligent solutions to our distributors and customers," noted Terry Rollo, Winsoft's director. "Because it sets new standards in the end user data access market, FindOut! is a significant addition to Winsoft's already impressive offerings of tools, databases and other products companies need to realize the full potential of client/server computing."

FindOut! is a new breed of end user data access tool for client/server computing. It's unique "data access + navigation" feature has won wide acclaim from customers and industry analysts for its ease of set-up, use, and maintenance, and its minimal reliance on already over-extended information systems (IS) managers. FindOut! is the only product that permits end users to generate queries using commmon business terms without any knowledge of SQL or database structures, and then navigate through databases to find all of the related information to the initial query. This means that, for the first time, business uers can search databases the way they naturally think: intuitively and interactively, without ongoing IS management support.

Demand for robust, easy-to-use end user data access solutions represented by FindOut! is growing among companies that are looking to leverage the information stored in their databases, so that users can make faster, better informed business decisions.

"The information contained in corporate databases has not been fully utilized for competitive advantage because previous data access solutions have created roadblocks between end users who need information and IS departments that must deliver it," noted Giannelli. "FindOut! leaps the hurdles that have made past solutions rigid, cumbersome, and costly to set-up, use, and maintain."

FindOut! Product Specifications

o Runs under native MS Windows and OS/2

o Native database driver support for Oracle 6 and Oracle 7,

SYBASE SYSTEM 10 and SQL Server 4.x, Microsoft SQL Server,

Informix 7.1, DB2, DB2/2, DB2/6000, Database Manager

o Middleware support for TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, Sybase Net Gateway,

Sybase OmniSQL Gateway, MDI Gateway for DB2 DDCS/2

Pricing and Availability

FindOut! is available in both Windows and OS/2 versions. FindOut! has two components: FindOut!, the end user system that provides the intuitive data access and navigation interface; and FindOut! Builder, which automatically builds the end user query environment, including the Business Dictionary, database mappings and reports. FindOut! is priced at $595, quantity one; FindOut! Builder is priced at $2,995, quantity one.

About Open Data Corp.

Open Data Corp. is a privately held company with headquarters in Lexington, Mass. Founded in 1988, Open Data produces, sells and supports FindOut!, the first "data access + navigation" tool for the end user data access market. FindOut! is currently in use at a number of leading businesses throughout North America, including Pitney Bowes, The Travelers, Federal Reserve Bank, MCI, Abbott Laboratories and Duke Power. In addition to its facility in Lexington, Open Data has sales offices in Austin, Texas, and New York. FindOut! is distributed in the United States and internationally in Europe, Africa, Australia and the Pacific Rim.

For additional information, please contact Tony Giannelli, vice president of marketing, Open Data, 617/860-8343.

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FindOut! and FindOut! Business Dictionary are trademarks of Open Data Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.

CONTACT: Open Data Corp.,

Tony Giannelli, 617/860-8343

or

Duval Woglom Brueckner & Partners Inc.,

David Thompson, 617/248-1881