Altosoft Named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm

Philadelphia, PA, March 16, 2009 – Altosoft, the only provider of process-aware business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that top analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has included Altosoft in the “Cool Vendors in BI and Performance Management, 2009” report by Bill Gassman, Gareth Herschel, Rita L. Sallam, James Richardson, and Andreas Bitterer, published on March 13, 2009.

Altosoft was listed together with five other vendors that “represent innovation in the ever-growing BI and PM space.”

“We are honored to be listed as a Cool Vendor by one of the most influential voices in the industry,” said Scott Opitz, CEO of Altosoft. “In this environment, organizations are seeking new, innovative technologies to achieve their business intelligence goals more quickly and cost effectively. An agile approach to business intelligence enables organizations to understand and react seamlessly to changing market dynamics. Altosoft customers are using our technology to enhance their BI solutions, making it easy to add and analyze new data sources, rapidly deploy new dashboards and reports, and analyze business process performance. We believe this a tremendous validation for Altosoft and for our vision of enabling customers to achieve more with their business intelligence, faster and more cost effectively than ever before.”

Altosoft’s products enhance business intelligence in three critical areas. MetricsMart delivers a unique approach to data integration that marries agility and real-time performance, enabling organizations get to their essential data quickly and efficiently. InsightBI makes dashboard and report development fast and easy with a drag-and-drop, 100% codeless approach. And ProcessMart delivers powerful business process monitoring and analysis, so that organizations can optimize critical processes ranging from sales to supply chain to customer support.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Altosoft
Altosoft makes business intelligence work. Altosoft's process-aware solutions eliminate the cost and complexity of conventional BI while delivering advanced functionality for operational performance improvement. Altosoft delivers the three critical enablers needed to transform existing business intelligence into a powerful, flexible engine of competitive advantage. First, Altosoft provides agile data integration that makes the hardest part of BI easy by gathering data from various sources and converting dynamically it to KPI metrics. Second, Altosoft’s business process intelligence capability adds essential process monitoring and analysis capability. Finally, Altosoft facilitates rapid, reliable BI solution development with guided, code-free configuration and data governance features. Altosoft’s revolutionary, 100% codeless approach features ultra low-latency data monitoring and analysis across operational databases, warehouses, and other data sources; integrates real-time event monitoring and business process optimization; and enables dashboard development in minutes with a unique browser-based, drag-and-drop interface. Headquartered outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Altosoft delivers solutions for commercial and government organizations worldwide. For more information, please visit www.altosoft.com.