Panorama Software Bridges BI Gap Between Microsoft Office 2007 and SAP BW

Market Wire, June, 2006

Business Intelligence Leader Enables Information Workers to Access SAP Data through Microsoft Office

Panorama Software, a global leader in business intelligence (BI) and proactive business management (PBM), today unveiled plans to enable Microsoft® Office 2007 to work as a primary BI front end application for SAP BW through its flagship product - Panorama NovaView.

Currently Microsoft Office 2007 has new BI capabilities only available for customers using Microsoft SQL Server. By using Panorama NovaView, SAP customers will now be able to take advantage of all the features and benefits that Office 2007 has to offer. As well, Microsoft® and SAP customers will also be able to take full advantage of advanced functionality in Office 2007 beyond the basic out of the box capabilities.

"Panorama will enhance Microsoft® Office's capabilities for information workers by extending its BI offering to include SAP BW users," said Eynav Azarya, CEO, Panorama Software. "Such capabilities were previously limited to SQL Server users, so we are pleased to be the Company to enable this diversification for Microsoft® Office. Through this initiative, Panorama leads the middle-tier market for BI by building the Intelligence Hub to deliver SAP data through familiar front end programs."

Panorama's solution also offers an innovative integration with Microsoft® Outlook and introduces a new "personal BI dashboard" where users can drag and drop any type of data into a visible side pane. "Today information workers can easily see and identify tasks and emails in Microsoft® Outlook," said Oudi Antebi, Vice President Marketing and Business Strategy, Panorama Software. "With Panorama NovaView's Microsoft® Office integration, we will enable information workers to have easy access to core metrics from within Outlook in order for them to measure and identify tasks and processes."

Panorama NovaView for Microsoft® Office is essentially modeled after the Microsoft and SAP joint product - Duet(TM). Formerly known as "Mendocino," Duet(TM) enables users to interact quickly and easily with SAP business processes and data through Microsoft® Office applications focusing on R/3 transactions. Panorama is essentially building the "Mendocino" for the business intelligence market by making BI data from SAP available in Office applications.

"Panorama's focus to deliver valuable BI data through Microsoft® Office 2007 is a testament to the Company's ability to offer industry leading solutions to the market," said Sean Thompson, Director SAP Alliance, Microsoft. "By leveraging the Microsoft technologies, Panorama is able to offer an innovative approach to making BI information more accessible to the average user, and enable more customers to reap the many rewards of functioning within the Office environment."

About Panorama Software

Panorama Software, the company that sold its leading OLAP technology to Microsoft, helps global organizations unlock the hidden value of their information assets to improve business performance and results through SMART, SIMPLE and COMPLETE BI solutions. Panorama takes advantage of the Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT) and SAP (NYSE: SAP) platforms through smart, simple and complete business intelligence and corporate performance management solutions.

Panorama, a leading innovator of business intelligence solutions, supports customers worldwide in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, telecommunications and life sciences. Panorama has more than 300 partners in 30 countries, and maintains offices throughout North America, EMEA and Asia. More information is available at www.panorama.com .

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