Panopticon extends the power of visual business intelligence with
visualizations of real-time data for business users

Stockholm, Sweden, October 10, 2006 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual business intelligence software today announces the immediate availability of Panopticon Explorer .NET Premium Edition 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 multidimensional data access, or simply drag and drop any OLAP cube onto the application.

"From talking to our customers, we understood that they wanted more. Above all, they wanted dynamic real-time business intelligence features to align with their real-life business processes which often rely on data kept in Excel, Reuters or in OLAP cubes", says CTO Markus Skyttner. He continues: "We listened to their requests and have delivered this in the Premium Edition of Panopticon Explorer, which completes not only our rich client offering but also the whole product suite."

Panopticon Explorer Premium Edition allows business users to gather insights and act on information as it happens. Users can simply drag and drop data to instantly produce a treemap visualization to discover patterns and trends to act and interact on. Panopticon Explorer lets you connect to virtually any data source and offers extensive support for collaboration.

"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, Reuters and Bear Stearns already have relied on for years", says Willem De Geer, CEO at Panopticon Software. About the increased demand for Panopticon’s products De Geer comments: "This desktop product has been described by excited beta users as the "holy grail of BI" – and I can only agree".

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