Symmetry's Performance Reporting Framework Has Built-in BI Expertise; Industry Experts Pendse and Imhoff Agree

Business Wire, March 7, 2006

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Symmetry Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner recognized for the design, development and implementation of business intelligence (BI) solutions for the Microsoft platform, today announced its PROOF(TM) Performance Reporting Framework. Based on Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services, PROOF is an intelligent server-based metrics platform that automatically generates standard metrics while ensuring metrics integrity and BI best practices for Symmetry business performance management implementations.

Creating reports, scorecards, and dashboards is an integral part of a BI application. PROOF automatically generates a library of standard reports in Reporting Services 2005. PROOF can also be used at sites with Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 to create Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This end-to-end approach to BI application building significantly shortens implementation time and increases the overall quality of the application.

"Using PROOF, Symmetry's BI consultants can create a performance reporting solution that ensures managers are making decisions based on correct performance metrics, regardless of whether they are using Excel, Business Scorecard Manager, or other client tools," said Dan Bulos, President of Symmetry Corporation. "The information explosion has resulted in a proliferation of performance reporting solutions across companies. Often business logic is scattered in different systems or embedded in individual reports," he continued. "Managers need consistent access to performance metrics and confidence that those metrics are accurate for effective decision-making. We've taken our 20 years of experience in building BI systems and embodied them into a comprehensive server-based metrics platform that our consultants can use to quickly generate performance reporting applications that highlight key targets, trends and typical rankings."

Nigel Pendse, author of The OLAP Report and The OLAP Survey said, "It's about time someone packaged BI Best practices into an OLAP model generator like PROOF. Symmetry's long experience in BI applications shows, and makes it much easier and faster for non-experts to build and, more importantly, maintain sophisticated multidimensional business models."

"PROOF is like having an expert BI developer permanently on staff," said Claudia Imhoff, President and Founder of Intelligent Solutions. "PROOF makes the hard part of developing performance management applications easy. By managing metrics in a central repository, it guarantees a single version of the truth and significantly reduces development time, redundant programming, and maintenance."

About Symmetry Corporation

Symmetry Corporation is a recognized expert in the design, development and implementation of business intelligence solutions for Fortune 1000 companies and software vendors. Business intelligence is Symmetry's sole focus and has been for 20 years. A Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, Symmetry is a longstanding member of the Microsoft BI Partner Advisory Council and licensed technology to Microsoft for the SQL Server Accelerator for BI (SSABI). Symmetry also created ADAPT, the first database design methodology developed specifically for multidimensional database applications, based on sound OLAP design principles. For more information, visit Symmetry's web site at www.symcorp.com or call (415) 453-7966.