World-renown French Institute selects Beyond 20/20

• Beyond 20/20 Inc. wins CAD $2.6 Million Contract from France's Institut National de la Statistique et d'Études Économiques (INSEE)
• Beyond 20/20 software suite to become INSEE organizational standard in desktop data tabulation and visualization

Ottawa, Canada - July 4, 2001 – Beyond 20/20 Inc., a data analysis and visualization software company, today announced the signing of a contract worth CAD $2.6 million (2 million Euro) with France's Institut National de la Statistique et d'Études Économiques (INSEE). The agreement will make Beyond 20/20's software the standard throughout INSEE headquarters and all regional offices, and will be used to analyze, visualize, and publish all national data sources and surveys beginning with France's Year 2000 Population and Housing Census. This announcement solidifies Beyond 20/20's market leadership with statistical agencies and other international organizations.

Beyond 20/20's software suite meets INSEE's need for quick, concise and complex interpretation of data. The data tabulation engine ensures that the organziation is able to produce accurate analysis and reliable reporting from massive quantities of data. Beyond 20/20 products will be used for CD-ROMs, printed output, the Internet and INSEE's Intranet. They will also be installed in the INSEE Research Centres.

"INSEE's plans for Beyond 20/20 use and deployment are quite extensive and forward thinking," said Howard Nadler, Chief Operating Officer, Beyond 20/20. "I am very impressed with the creativity in applying Beyond 20/20 to solve INSEE data tabulation challenges and increase productivity. A census in a country with more than 60 million people generates a massive amount of data. Our software allows INSEE to create customized views and publish the French census reports quickly and cost-effectively."

Organizations such as the US Census Bureau, Statistics Canada, STAT-USA, UNESCO, and the German and Swiss federal statistical agencies have already deployed Beyond 20/20 software. Beyond 20/20 software offers customizable data analysis that is easily convertible to commonly used spreadsheets and statistical software formats such as Excel, SAS and SPSS, with features such as charting, mapping, drill down and trends or cycle analysis.

Founded as a consulting company in 1987, the company recently changed its name from Ivation Datasystems Inc. to Beyond 20/20 Inc. The new name reflects the company's focus on the fast-growing popularity of its flagship software product family called Beyond 20/20. In addition to governments and international organizations, many companies around the world use Beyond 20/20 powered data products, including large corporations such as Dupont, Shell, Royal Bank, and Moody's Investors. Over 500,000 copies of Beyond 20/20 Browsers have been licensed for use in over 40 countries.

About the Institut National de la Statistique et d'Études Économiques (INSEE)

Founded in 1946, the Institut National de la Statistique et d'Études Économiques (INSEE) gathers, processes, analyzes, and disseminates statistical data on the French economy and society. INSEE coordinates the nation's public statistical system and is a participant in the "European Statistical Area." It also engages in cooperative and advisory programs with many countries. For more information, visit the INSEE Web site at: http://www.insee.fr.

About Beyond 20/20 Inc.

Beyond 20/20 is the market leader in data analysis and visualization software used by the world's largest statistical agencies, international organizations and corporations around the world to process massive amounts of data quickly and cost effectively. Beyond 20/20's customers include the OECD, US Census Bureau, STAT-USA, Statistics Canada, CIBC Insurance, Moody's Investors and many others. Beyond 20/20's extensive family of desktop and Internet-based software products empowers end-users to process and analyze statistical data. Users can create customized views and generate reports in a fraction of the time required by other software programs. Going beyond static formats such as PDF, XLS and HTML, Beyond 20/20 provides dynamic access to complex data through tabular presentations, charts and maps. Beyond 20/20 data is easily convertible to spreadsheets and statistical software formats including Excel, SAS and SPSS. Founded in 1987, Beyond 20/20 is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with an additional office in Washington, D.C.