US Census Bureau Acquires Bureau-Wide License for Beyond 20/20

Worldwide adoption of Beyond 20/20 continues as the US Census Bureau selects Beyond 20/20 for extensive data tabulation and dissemination initiatives.

Ottawa, Canada – April 14, 1999 – Ivation Datasystems Inc. announced today that the US Census Bureau has purchased a Bureau-wide license for Beyond 20/20, the market-leading family of software products for data tabulation, dissemination, and publishing applications. This agreement provides for:

• Internal distribution by the Bureau of Beyond 20/20 for data tabulation and exploration
• External distribution of the Beyond 20/20 Browser as part of the Bureau's CD-ROM information products
• Use of Ivation’s new Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server product

"As America's largest statistical agency and a center for millions of socioeconomic statistical data tables, the US Census Bureau understands the strategic importance of fast, easy data tabulation and exploration to enable analysts, researchers, and statisticians to make effective decisions and policies," says Bill Lidington, President of Ivation Datasystems Inc. "Beyond 20/20 provides the US Census Bureau with an off-the-shelf, low-cost software solution that meets their needs for desktop data tabulation and dissemination."

Based on the success of the American Community Survey CD-ROM and the USA Trade CD-ROM, coupled with activities across the department, the US Census Bureau intends to utilize Beyond 20/20 products and associated services to address long-term objectives for:

• Disseminating meaningful statistical data as multidimensional data tables and associated metadata
• Disseminating and publishing data tables that have a common look and feel regardless of distribution or publishing method
• Lowering development, production, training, and support costs
• Providing an inexpensive means to:
  • Automate the dissemination process
  • Supply a high-powered browser for viewing data from disparate sources
  • Perform desktop data tabulations
• Contributing value to existing investments in analytical tools and programs

About the US Census Bureau

The US Census Bureau is the preeminent collector and disseminator of timely, relevant, high-quality data about the people and the economy of the United States. For more information, visit the US Census Bureau 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.