31st May 2007

Select Press Release

Select’s UltraQuest™ Adds Dashboards and Oracle Access

Trumbull, CT May 31, 2007: Select Business Solutions™, an Avantcé Software company, and a leading provider of mainframe reporting and data access tools, announced today a new release of its Web-based, business intelligence software, UltraQuest version 5.0. Highlights of this release are a new dashboard facility and access to Oracle data. This new release’s Dashboards provide an "at-a-glance" view of business information across the organization. They are typically generated for management who require a high level view of business performance, and prefer timely, visual snapshots of both operational and strategic data.

The dashboards take advantage of UltraQuest server access to mainframe data sources, including IBM’s DB2 for z/OS or z/VM, VSAM, IMS, IDMS, Teradata, NOMAD® and QSAM. According to Roger Cox, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, “End users can develop their own dashboards from within the UltraQuest Reporter environment and then publish them through the UltraQuest Library. Other users can reference these dashboards directly through a URL.”

The new UltraQuest dashboards not only provide a wealth of information at a single glance, but they can also be used as a graphical menu to access related reports. Dashboard cells provide summary information as either charts or small reports. Links associated with each cell allow the user to call up additional reports, and drill down to related detail.

This new release also provides access to Oracle data residing on mid-tier UNIX, Windows or Linux servers. Users of UltraQuest Reporter or the UltraQuest Library will report from Oracle data in just the same way that they currently report from mainframe data sources. Because all reports are handled by the same UltraQuest server, they will also be able to join their mainframe data from DB2, VSAM, IMS, IDMS and Teradata, with their Oracle data for more comprehensive reporting.

UltraQuest, which includes a mainframe-based application server, works through a Web server to provide the following services:

UltraQuest Reporter: for interactive, real-time access to reports and data extracts from mainframe data sources.

UltraQuest Library: a shared library of reports, published from UltraQuest Reporter, which are available through Web browser menus.

UltraQuest Applications: custom applications, built using the UltraQuest server and the underlying UltraQuest 4GL. These applications may involve reports as well as data queries and updates.

UltraQuest WebServices: provides Web services to access mainframe data sources enabling a seamless and efficient integration of legacy data with the next generation of business intelligence applications.