The Institut de la statistique du Québec Selects Beyond 20/20
Statistique Québec will use Beyond 20/20

Browser for its Québec Trade Statistics Project on CD-ROM. Adoption of Beyond 20/20 in the state- and provincial-level statistical community continues.

Ottawa, Canada – May 04, 1999 – Ivation Datasystems Inc. announced today that the Institut de la statistique du Québec has chosen Beyond 20/20 as the data browser for its new Québec Trade Statistics Project on CD-ROM. The Institut is the premier statistical agency in Québec. Its new information product will be used extensively as an internal data dissemination tool and will be distributed externally to a few hundred users.

"This agreement is very important because it extends Beyond 20/20's market share in the Canadian provinces to 60%," says Jean Carr, Ivation's Vice President of Marketing and Sales. "Ivation is seeing a growth in the state- and provincial-level government market because Beyond 20/20 is a very cost-effective tool for statistical data tabulation and dissemination."

Since the Institut is disseminating vast amounts of trade data, both internally and externally, on its new CD-ROM, it needed a data browsing tool that would make it very simple for users to extract, view, and manipulate multidimensional data. Beyond 20/20 was selected because it is an affordable, easy-to-use, yet powerful data browser that allows users to "slice and dice" their data, perform calculations and imputation functions, chart and map data, view metadata, and easily view data in multiple dimensions.

About the Institut de la statistique du Québec

The Institut was founded in 1912 as an administrative body of the Québec government. Its purpose is to collect, compile, analyze, and publish statistical information about the province of Quebec. It collaborates with other departments of the Québec government in gathering, compiling, and publishing statistical information and in carrying out statistical research. The objective of the Institut is to satisfy Québec's demographic, economic, social, and cultural statistical needs and to coordinate the government's various statistical efforts. For more information, visit the Institut de la statistique's Web site.

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.