Monarch Data Pump Named One of KMWorld Magazine 1999 Products of the Year

Business Wire, Feb 8, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 8, 2000

Monarch Data Pump, Personal Edition, recognized for ability to

shortcut the process of moving data from legacy systems into other

applications

Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ: DWCH), a leading provider of enterprise reporting solutions, data transformation tools and support center software, today was honored by KMWorld Magazine, a leading computer trade magazine for buyers of enterprise knowledge management and business intelligence products, for providing one of the most outstanding products of 1999 - Monarch Data Pump, Personal Edition.

Monarch Data Pump, which automates the often-painstaking task of data extraction and transformation by allowing users to effectively gather data originating in legacy reports instead of databases, is featured along with other award winners such Automony's ActiveKnowledge, and Beehive's Abuzz in the January 2000 millennium issue of KMWorld magazine (www.kmworld.com).

&uot;We are honored by this industry award for Monarch Data Pump,&uot; said John Kitchen, vice president of marketing at Datawatch Corporation. &uot;This endorsement by the editors of KMWorld Magazine validates our evolutionary approach of using reports as a source for data. Now IT professionals can easily take information stuck on legacy systems and automatically deliver it for use in conversions, migrations or to simply send it to end users in a format that they can use such as Excel or Access.&uot;

About Monarch Data Pump, Personal Edition

Monarch Data Pump is unique in its use of historical report print files, business documents such as invoices or purchase orders, EDI transmissions, DB load files or any ASCII or ANSI output as a live data source. Users no longer have to go through the costly, time-consuming proposition of deciphering complex database schema and programming logic. Data Pump's powerful data recognition and parsing engine extracts, transforms, and outputs data from report files produced on any mainframe, midrange, client/server or PC system no matter how &uot;load unfriendly,&uot; or complexly formatted the print file might be. Data can be output in a variety of popular formats including Access, Excel, Paradox, dBase, ASCII and others. Powerful scripting and scheduling features give it the ability to perform automated lights-out processing. Users can configure Monarch Data Pump to poll a specified location on their network and watch for the arrival of a specified report. When the report arrives, Monarch Data Pump will &uot;wake up&uot; and process the file automatically.

About Datawatch

Datawatch Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise reporting, data transformation and support center solutions that enable organizations to increase productivity, reduce costs and gain competitive advantage. Datawatch products are used in more than 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide. Datawatch is best known for its desktop report mining application Monarch, which has sold more than 300,000 copies. Monarch Technology is the de-facto standard for extracting data from report files. Datawatch has partnerships with a variety of key technology venders including IBM and is a Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance 2000 Member. The company maintains offices throughout the US, and in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Australia.

Monarch and Monarch Data Pump, are trademarks of Datawatch Corporation. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

Datawatch Corp., 900 Chelmsford Street, Tower 3, 5th Floor, Lowell, MA 01851-8100Phone: 978-441-2200 Fax: 978-441-1114 www.datawatch.com