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Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance (DWA) Names MIS AG to Prestigious Analytical Application Certified Partner Program NEWARK, N.J. (November 19, 2001) - - MIS AG, a leading provider of business intelligence solutions, today announced that it has been named to the Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance (DWA) "Analytical Application Partner" program. Only 11 software vendors, worldwide, have achieved the certification for this category.

"Our certification further emphasizes MIS AG's commitment to Microsoft as the platform of choice for business intelligence," said Anthony (Tony) Politano, CEO of MIS AG North America. "This level of certification makes MIS a recognized player in the business intelligence software space and proves to our customers that they have made the right choice for their analytical application partner."

The Analytical Application Partner category provides applications for extraction, transformation and loading as well as query, reporting and analysis capabilities, combined with analytics to address a specific user type or usage scenario. The Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance is a technical and marketing partnership between Microsoft and select third party independent software vendors (ISVs) focused on helping customers to build, use and manage data warehousing solutions that are fully integrated with Microsoft� SQL Server(tm) 2000, Microsoft Office, and the Microsoft Windows� 2000 platform.

Microsoft's vision for business intelligence and data warehousing is to improve the speed and quality of decision-making by simplifying and integrating services into the platform itself and providing open interfaces to access and share data. "In keeping with our vision, MIS AG's DecisionWare suite and the Microsoft platform for business intelligence help organizations accelerate the rate at which they turn information into action," said John Eng, Lead Product Manager for Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence. "MIS has embraced these standards and provides solutions that extend the data warehousing capabilities of SQL Server 2000 and the business intelligence functionality provided in Microsoft Office 2000."

"MIS AG North America is honored to receive this certification from the Microsoft DWA," said James (Jim) McCarthy, vice president, business development for MIS AG North America. "It's an even greater honor to be among the small and select group of analytical application software vendors to receive this recognition. MIS AG North America is a committed Microsoft channel partner."

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