Panopticon Software earns Certified Status within the Microsoft Partner Program

Stockholm, Sweden, January 2, 2007 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual business intelligence software, today announced that it has joined The Microsoft Certified Partner Program. As a certified partner, Panopticon Software has successfully demonstrated its expertise with Microsoft technologies and high standards in line with the extensive evaluation process in order to become a Certified Partner. Microsoft Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support that give a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Panopticon Software has a history of developing visualization software to customers on the front lines of decision making for Microsoft’s platforms: “The certified status allows us to clearly promote our skills and relationship with Microsoft to our customers, something that will be reflected in upcoming products”, says CTO Markus Skyttner.

Panopticon offers a vast set of software products based on Microsoft’s technology. The visual business intelligence offering consists of software development kits in both Microsoft .NET and ActiveX technologies, the awarded Enterprise .NET product as well as the powerful desktop application Panopticon Explorer .NET, available in three versions with plug-ins for real time streaming data for business users.

“We are pleased to have become certified in the Microsoft Partner Program. The Certified Status allows us to clearly promote our products and technical expertise based on a third party evaluation to our customers,” said CEO Willem De Geer. “Our software measures up to Microsoft's high standards in many areas and we look forward to working closely with Microsoft to continue to produce software for visual analytics to clients world-wide.”

About Panopticon

Panopticon offers Visual Business Intelligence software for financial institutions, telecommunications firms and other organizations that must make decisions based on very large datasets and real-time streaming data feeds. The company offers a variety of enterprise and desktop products as well as a comprehensive SDK that allows clients to integrate Panopticon’s visualization technology with their own systems and workflows. Panopticon and its clients have won several technology awards from Euromoney and The Banker for their implementations of Panopticon technology. Clients include JP Morgan, Fidelity, Reuters, and Citi. The company has offices in New York, London and Stockholm.

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For more information, contact:

In Europe:
Robert Ekström, CEO, email: robert.ekstrom _at_ panopticon.com, Tel: +46 (0)8 53 480 480
Panopticon Software AB, Brunnsgatan 9, SE-111 87 Stockholm, Sweden

In the US:
Sam Giertz, President, email: sam.giertz _at_ panopticon.com, Tel: +1 212 907 6420
Panopticon Software USA, The Chrysler Center, 405 Lexington, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10174 USA