Ivation Announces Partnership With Diabase in France

New partnership provides enhanced distribution and support of Beyond 20/20® to current and potential users in France

Ottawa, Canada – November 05, 1999 – Ivation Datasystems Inc. announced today that Diabase has been appointed a solutions partner and Beyond 20/20, the market-leading data tabulation, publishing, and dissemination software, thus becomes a value-added tool to Diabase's statistical data management consulting services.

Bernard Masoliver, Associate Director of Diabase declares: "Access to statistical information still often remains too complex. Highly specialized personnel have to be used to retrieve even the most basic data. Beyond 20/20 brings a real solution, giving the end user work autonomy. It’s the best way to liberate data."

"By partnering with Ivation, Diabase will be able to provide their customers with the leading statistical data tabulation and dissemination solutions," says Jean Carr, Ivation's Vice President of Marketing and Sales. "By working with Diabase, Ivation is able to have a more direct and continuous presence in France, but most importantly, we are able to provide the best solutions and support to our end users and prospective end users."

About Diabase

Diabase was created in June 1999 by a team of statisticians experienced in studies for both the private and public sectors. They have proven expertise in such fields as transportation, banking and insurance, and distribution.

The company focuses on conceptualizing and assisting organizations with:

• Developing and managing large databases
• Preparing and disseminating statistical information

Beyond 20/20’s product family, which Diabase is now responsible for commercializing and rolling out in France, will play an important role in Diabase's service offerings.

About Beyond 20/20 Inc.

Used worldwide by organizations and individuals who must find the knowledge held in data, Beyond 20/20 is emerging as the world's leading software product for disseminating and exploring numerical data. Beyond 20/20, with its unique characteristics, ease-of-use, and superior performance in publishing, examining, visualizing, and manipulating socioeconomic statistics, provides measurable productivity improvements to both data publishers and data consumers. Through both its product and service divisions, Beyond 20/20 Inc. actively works with its customers to implement and support data access and dissemination solutions and technologies.