January 29 , 2003
 

Advanced Visual Systems Joins
PeopleSoft Software Alliance Program

(WALTHAM, Mass. – January 29, 2003) Advanced Visual Systems (AVS), a leader in interactive data visualization technology used in the business intelligence, decision support, financial, bio-informatics and software development industries, has become a member of the PeopleSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSFT) Software Alliance Program.

AVS’ OpenViz technology (www.openviz.com) is embedded in PeopleTools 8, providing highly interactive 2D and 3D graphical presentations of critical business data drawn from a vast array of PeopleSoft data sources.

PeopleSoft customers have discovered the value and benefit of OpenViz data presentation techniques through the many high-quality interactive charts, graphs and other "scenes" that appear throughout PeopleSoft 8, in which users can easily explore and quickly comprehend complex and sizeable amounts of business information.

According to Steve Sukman, President of Business Software at AVS, “PeopleSoft has been an industry leader in the adoption and implementation of data visualization techniques within its portal products, stimulating a tremendous amount of interest in new ways of presenting and interacting with corporate data. We look forward to working closely with the many user and developer groups aligned with PeopleSoft to enhance and extend their business intelligence initiatives.”

Peter Gassner, VP and GM, PeopleSoft Technology at PeopleSoft, added, "Data visualization from OpenViz delivers compelling interactive graphics in our products, which in turn provide our customers with more meaningful insight into their business. We welcome AVS to the Software Alliance Program."

PeopleSoft is a registered trademark of PeopleSoft, Inc.


About Advanced Visual Systems
Advanced Visual Systems (AVS) provides industry-leading, interactive data visualization software and solutions that help business, scientific and engineering users gain critical insight from all types of data. AVS' complete line of software products speeds decision-making by bringing information to life using the latest in graphics, Web-based and interactive technologies on all major computing platforms. For more information on AVS call 781-890-4300, write to info@avs.com, or visit http://www.avs.com.

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