Beyond 20/20 signs on another national statistics office: Luxembourg to disseminate census data with Beyond 20/20

In a competitive bid, Beyond 20/20 beat out Australia’s Space Time Research, Web Technologies of France, and Luxembourg’s own AREANE II.

OTTAWA – April 14, 2004 – Beyond 20/20, a developer of software solutions for data analysis and visualization, today announced a significant sale to STATEC, Luxembourg’s national statistical institute. This marks the 13th country to disseminate its data on a national level using Beyond 20/20’s software, in addition to the many regional government agencies around the world that use the software for similar purposes.

“With many of the national stats agencies in Europe signing on, plus a recent sweep of the U.K.’s top stats agencies (the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics, StatsWales, and Scottish Enterprise), this contract is really going to help us solidify our success in the European market,” describes Howard Nadler, president of Beyond 20/20 Inc. “With so many public Web sites using our WDS software, the agencies that have not yet considered us now have bona fide examples which demonstrate the benefits our software offers organizations similar to their own.”

STATEC has purchased the Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server (WDS) and the Beyond 20/20 Data Connection Wizard to publish Luxembourg’s statistical, economical, and social data online. This Web solution enables STATEC to serve the general public while providing the tools that enable data users to manipulate the data, create charts, view it on maps, and save the data online, with an option to download it to their desktops. Its audience is not only national, but as a member of the European Union STATEC is obligated to disseminate its data to the European public as well. Beyond 20/20 enables them to reach this goal.

Currently, Luxembourg displays its data in HTML tables on its Web site, with no dynamic tools available to manipulate the data. The data can also be viewed in MS Excel - also a static table format – and can be downloaded to the desktop. “We chose WDS because it will enable us to display multi-dimensional tables on the Web,” said Laurent Maretti, head of the Technology Unit for STATEC. “With the software, our data users can extract meaningful information from the data, which means we will be adding more value to the services we provide them than in the past.”

Beyond 20/20’s solution will be fully integrated with STATEC’s Content Management System. The implementation is expected to be complete and available on the Web in mid-2004.

About STATEC

The Central Service for Statistics and Economics (STATEC) is Luxembourg’s national statistical institute. Its mandate is to produce and centralize statistical data on various aspects of Luxembourg and its economic activities, such as censuses, surveys and centralizing statistical information from other government bodies. It also carries out studies and economic forecasts, disseminates data and study results, and coordinates Luxembourg’s statistical system by cooperating with foreign statistical services and international bodies and integration with the European System of Statistics. You can learn more about STATEC at http://www.statec.lu.

About Beyond 20/20 Inc.

Beyond 20/20 is the market leader in developing software for data dissemination, analysis and visualization. Beyond 20/20's extensive family of desktop and Internet-based software products empowers end-users to process and analyze data quickly and cost-effectively. Beyond 20/20 offers a unique feature set, outstanding speed and ease-of-use. Beyond 20/20 is used by the world's largest statistical agencies, international organizations and corporations. Customers include the OECD, US Census Bureau, STAT-USA, Statistics Canada, CIBC Insurance, Moody's Investors and many others. Founded in 1987, Beyond 20/20 is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with an additional office in Washington, D.C.