iTempus, Inc. Announces Availability of i-Q; 'Knowledge at the Speed of Business'.

Business Editors

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2001

iTempus Inc. announced today that its new product iQ, software solution to improve efficiency and profitability for the Professional Services market, has entered its Limited Production phase this fall.

General availability is planned for the beginning of the New Year.

The iTempus team consists of experts in the field of labor management and business analysis and is focusing on establishing a strong presence in the Professional Services marketplace. Heading the team is William Eichhorn, CEO and President. "A product such as iQ is long overdue in the Professional Services marketplace. iQ is available as the first truly web-enabled, wireless solution to support remote and/or dispersed work forces. iQ, through its versatile interface, has simplified the end user's experience by automating the data collection and validation process to a click of a mouse."

iQ is the strategic solution for implementation of business analysis and management within professional services industry. iQ integrates all data collection, validation and entry processes associated with the professional workforce.

iQ then correlates this data according to business rules to ensure adherence to business best practices and backend process requirements. Additionally, iQ presents views of real time business performance by which business managers can assess employee availability and performance, assign tasks, track project profitability and/or progress with one uniform layer of time management, administration and control.

"I am enthusiastic about iQ's power to improve the Profession Service community's ability to manage their business. Along with its prowess to rapidly collect and validate critical business data for "real-time" analysis, iQ frees the professional from the time-consuming task of tracking and reporting while guaranteeing data accuracy and ensuring that the data meets business requirements for timely reporting and backend system consumption." said Jim Grueff, EVP and COO.

Innovative Technology Makes it Possible

iQ is built with a net-native architecture. iQ's business logic is written in Microsoft Visual Basic and resides on an application server. The user interface is built using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) and supports both HTML and WAP browsers.

This choice of technology virtually eliminates the need to deploy client software on thousands of machines, making the support of large numbers of users as easy as supporting a small workgroup.

About iTempus

iTempus makes software applications that help companies more efficiently manage their services organizations. iTempus applications help organizations cut costs and increase revenues by making it easy to capture and report information about people and projects throughout the organization.

NOTE: iTempus is a trademark.

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