SANTA CLARA, CA - April 8, 2003 - IAF Software, Inc., a leading
business intelligence solutions provider, today announced a partnership
with ThinkFast Consulting, Inc., a full-service provider of integrated
business intelligence (BI) solutions. ThinkFast will resell IAF
Coaster(TM) and IAF Vista(TM), as part of its Oracle Business
Intelligence Practice.
IAF Vista is an easy-to-use BI application tool that allows business
users to create OLAP reports by point-and-click, without support
from corporate IT staff. IAF Coaster is an innovative metadata
management tool that allows customers to create and manage their
own analytic models without changing data structures in a corporate
data warehouse. ThinkFast will focus on the delivery of BI and
Analytical Application solutions, including data warehousing,
financial management, sales and marketing management and customer
analytics for Oracle's Business Intelligence products in conjunction
with IAF Coaster and IAF Vista. IAF customers will benefit from
having a powerful, flexible solution delivered by ThinkFast consultants
with vertical industry expertise in Consumer Products, Energy,
Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, and Utilities.
"IAF Software has developed products based on our experience
in delivering solutions to global customers," stated Akihide Ito,
co-founder and CEO of IAF Software, "By partnering with ThinkFast,
the largest consultancy dedicated to BI services in the United
States, we are pleased to be able to accelerate adoption of our
products."
"Oracle has fully integrated multi-dimensional technology directly
into the Oracle9i Database, and IAF Software has developed an
excellent set of tools to exploit this technology," said Tom Phelps,
president of ThinkFast Consulting. "Combining IAF Software's products
for Oracle with our technical, business and industry expertise,
we can help our clients' identify and implement solutions that
provide quick, measurable ROI enabling incremental deployment
of solutions across business units and outward to partners and
customers."
About ThinkFast Consulting, Inc.
ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. is a premier full-service provider
of enterprise-wide business intelligence (BI) services designed
to provide customers with real-time structured access to information
for strategic and tactical decision making. ThinkFast delivers
custom applications that help clients' increase profitability,
enhance client relationships, expand market share, improve risk
management and heighten competitive advantage. With over 350 customers,
their expertise, both business and technical, helps identify solutions
that provide quick, measurable ROI enabling incremental deployment
of solutions across business units and outward to partners and
customers. ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago,
and has local offices in Dallas, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco
and St. Louis. For more information, visit www.thinkfast.com.
About IAF Software, Inc.
IAF Software addresses a major issue facing many businesses
- how to make valuable corporate data more accessible to business
users. Established in 2000, IAF Software is a private company
located in Silicon Valley, and is a subsidiary of IAF Consulting,
Inc. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, IAF Consulting (www.iafc.co.jp)
is the only independent consulting company focusing on the Data
Warehouse and Business Intelligence market in Japan. Global customers
include Mitsui, NTT Group, and Toshiba. Drawing on its global
consulting experience in the data warehousing area, IAF Software
provides enterprise customers with a robust BI application platform
that is powerful yet easy to use. Additional information about
IAF Software is available at www.iafsoft.com.
ThinkFast Consulting Contact:
ThinkFast Consuling, Inc.
Anne Stein
Phone: (864) 244-9126
E-mail: astein@thinkfast.com
URL: www.thinkfast.com
IAF Software Contact:
IAF Software, Inc.
Shinji Matsumoto
Phone: (408) 567-9460
E-mail: smatsumo@iafsoft.com
URL: www.iafsoft.com
IAF Vista and IAF Coaster are trademarks of IAF
Software, Inc. Oracle is registered trademark of Oracle International
Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.