Beyond 20/20 Licensed by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Statistisches Bundesamt

Beyond 20/20 achieves a 70% market share in a strategically significant market

Ottawa, Canada – November 10, 1999 – Ivation Datasystems Inc. announced today that the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Statistisches Bundesamt, has licensed Beyond 20/20, the market-leading family of software products for data tabulation, dissemination, and publishing applications.

"If you look at the seven largest economies in the world, the leading statistical agencies in five of these countries have now licensed Beyond 20/20. Specifically, these are the Census Bureau in the US, INSEE in France, ONS in the UK, Statistics Canada, and now Statistisches Bundesamt in Germany," says Jean Carr, Ivation's Vice President of Marketing and Sales. "For us, this represents a 70% market share in this strategically significant market."

"This market share, I believe, assures all of our customers and prospects that a decision to license Beyond 20/20 is by far the best long-term decision."

About the Federal Statistical Office of Germany

The Federal Statistical Office of Germany offers reliable data on all important spheres of life, including:

• Population and employment
• Housing and construction activity
• Education and culture
• Social security and health systems
• Prices and earnings
• Economic development overall and in individual sectors of economic activity
• Imports and exports
• Environmental protection and state of the environment
• Public budgets and justice

The Office's main function is to ensure that federal statistics are produced without overlaps, according to uniform methods, and in a timely manner. The tasks of the Federal Statistical Office include methodological and technical preparation of individual statistics, further development of the program of federal statistics, coordination of individual statistics, and compilation and publication of federal results. For more information, visit the Statistisches Bundesamt Web site (both German- and English-language versions are available).

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.