Panopticon empowers Japanese business users

— Panopticon Explorer is now available in a Premium Edition —

Stockholm, Sweden, January 3, 2007 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual business intelligence software today announces the immediate availability of Panopticon Explorer .NET Premium Edition, also in a Japanese version and proves once again that Panopticon Software continues to deliver tools for visual analytics on the front lines of decision-making. The premium addition to the product suite completes the desktop application offering with real-time support. Clients are now not only able to visualize real-time Excel and real-time Reuters data but also connect to multidimensional data from SQL Server 2005 through XMLA, the industry standard for data access, or simply drag and drop any OLAP cube onto the application.

“With a proven track of successful implementations of our products to the world’s leading financial institutions, we have seen the need for real-time visualizations for business users”, says CEO and co-founder Willem De Geer. Commenting on the offering for East Asia, De Geer continues: “To provide a Japanese version of the product in conjunction with LightStone Corporation was a natural step for us since we already work with most of the top-tier banks in the world. The number of users in Japan is huge and they are very open to adapting innovative software which helps making good decisions quickly.”

Tokyo, Japan- based LightStone Corporation has distributed PC software on Japanese markets since 1995. Koh Yong Mo, founder and president of Tokyo based LightStone, believes that Panopticon Explorer will prove a boon to various financial traders, researchers and anyone who is in need of powerful computing tools in Japan: “The concept of Panopticon’s treemaps is useful and powerful not only for financial markets but also industrial- or educational markets. We are sure that Panopticon Explorer will be known as one of the greatest mission-critical application software in Japan.”

Panopticon Explorer Premium Edition allows business users to garner insights and act on information as it happens. Simply drag and drop data to instantly produce a treemap visualization where users can discover patterns and trends to act and interact on. With the possibilities to connect to virtually any data source and with extensive support for collaboration, users have not been disappointed.

“Panopticon Explorer Premium Edition is a powerful tool since it allows business users to instantly visualize important data on the fly and still enjoy the benefits from Panopticon’s solid technological platform that clients such as JPMorgan, HSBC and Bear Stearns already have relied on for years”, says De Geer. About the increased demand for Panopticon’s products De Geer comments: “It is not only our product offering that has been strengthened recently but also our global market presence. Our plans are to continue to deliver high quality solutions and new products for businesses 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