Datawatch Enterprise Reporting Solution Selected by Eastern Virginia Medical School and Tulane Medical School

Business Wire, Nov 18, 1998

WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1998--

Monarch/ES to Store, Manage and Deliver Critical Report Information On-line; Brings Reports Alive On Screen to Support Queries

and Analyses

Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ:DWCH), a leading provider of Enterprise Reporting solutions, today announced that two prominent medical schools, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Tulane Medical School, have selected Datawatch's Monarch/ES as their report storage, delivery and analysis solution.

Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) is a private, community-based medical school serving southeastern Virginia. Monarch/ES will store, manage and deliver critical report information using EVMS' existing network infrastructure and the Internet. Monarch/ES will also provide centralized report access to EVMS end-users. Furthermore, Monarch/ES will extend the life of EVMS' legacy reporting system by allowing users to mine, query and analyze existing report data.

"We chose Monarch/ES because it gives us the ability to mine critical business intelligence from any of our standard reports," said Debbie Taylor, director of business and financial information systems at EVMS. "Through Monarch/ES, our queried report data becomes actionable business intelligence, offering our end-users instant access to decision critical information regardless of their physical location. Monarch/ES effectively eliminated custom code jobs, instantly delivering custom reports that would have taken five people seven days to produce and distribute. Monarch/ES puts power in the users hands."

Tulane Medical School selected Monarch/ES to assist its business officers and physicians with their billing and research reporting. Monarch/ES will provide end-users with critical report analysis using Tulane's existing medical and clinical database system. Tulane plans to provide over 400 physicians with access to Monarch/ES.

"Tulane Medical School had been looking for a solution that allowed us to streamline our reporting process and put critical data directly into the users hands," said Tim Riley, manager of data systems at Tulane Medical Center. "Datawatch's Enterprise Reporting system was the ideal tool that could meet our information demands without putting added strain on our MIS department."

"The choice of Monarch/ES by EVMS and Tulane validates our approach to Enterprise Reporting for health care organizations," said Marc Peterson, senior vice president of North American Operations at Datawatch Corp. "The fact that we could provide EVMS and Tulane with an easy to implement and administer system was a key factor in their selection of Monarch/ES."

About Monarch/ES

Monarch/ES is an integrated suite of Enterprise Reporting products, configurable to meet a customer's unique requirements. Monarch/ES employs a server-centric architecture and the latest Internet technology to make it scalable, manageable and supportable in a distributed computing environment. Monarch/ES is unique among Enterprise Reporting solutions in its ability to transform existing reports into live report objects for delivery via the Internet and LANs/WANs for queries and analysis on the desktop. Only Monarch/ES effectively leverages and extends the life of a company's existing reporting systems.

About Eastern Virginia Medical School

Eastern Virginia Medical School, founded in 1973, to train compassionate and scientific physicians with a lifelong passion for learning, has quickly matured into a major medical resource and research center. EVMS has graduated more than 1,500 doctors, with more than a third of them now practicing in Hampton Roads and Virginia. Today EVMS has nearly 600 students in all its degree programs, 300 residents and fellows, 300 faculty members, and six buildings housing state-of-the-art laboratories, a medical library, clinical offices and special programs, such as the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine-- home of the nation's first in vitro fertilization clinic and today's foremost reproductive medicine program. EVMS faculty members care for more than 300,000 patients every year.

About Tulane Medical School

Founded in 1834, Tulane University School of Medicine is the 15th oldest medical school in the United States. Today, the medical school is but one part of the Tulane University Medical Center, which includes the School of Medicine, the Tulane University Hospital and Clinic, the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the University Health Service, the Tulane Regional Primate Research Center, the U.S.-Japan Biomedical Research Laboratories and the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research.

About Datawatch

Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ:DWCH), headquartered in Wilmington, Mass., is a leading provider of Enterprise Reporting and Service Center solutions that help organizations increase productivity, reduce costs and gain competitive advantage. Datawatch products are used in more than 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide. Datawatch's web address is www.datawatch.com.