Mr. Gustafson: Eoscene is a privately held and growing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. We are a provider of enterprise analytic portal software for mid-market and Fortune 500 companies. Our intelligence portal product is radically improving the accessibility and usability of data from corporate systems, providing customers with a uniquely intuitive interface to empower them to be fully informed of the information that matters most and increase the timeliness and accuracy of their decision-making to drive greater value for their business. Eoscene was incorporated in late 1999 with the mission of creating a product that users would like and adopt on a broad scale for reporting, analyzing and sharing data. Eoscene's direction has been to support interoperability with existing technology infrastructures and to leverage the Web for access and distribution of data. Eoscene has operated from the mantra that simplicity promotes adoption and it is more difficult to make a product or technology simple, but in the end it is worth it.
TWST: How is your product different from what the competitors
have?
Mr. Gustafson: Eoscene stands apart by providing 100% Web-based
query, reporting and multi-dimensional analysis capabilities
within one software package. Our product enables broad extranet
deployments to reach employees, customers and suppliers securely.
Eoscene's technology enables users to associate related data, in
text or in graphical form, from many sources into one cohesive
view to make sense of what is important to know. Our product has
overcome the challenges of traditional products by reducing the
cost of report creation and distribution by IT organizations;
delivering interfaces that are intuitive to reduce training and
implementation costs and promote user adoption; providing role-
and group-based authorization to drive down costs for security
administration; and providing easy access through external
connectivity to share valued data with customers and suppliers.
Users are demanding a more intuitive, more accessible and easier
to install and administer system than what has traditionally been
delivered. Eoscene has built a completely Web-based platform
that is not only delivering data to our customers' employees, but
also enabling customers to deliver data to their customers and
their customers' customers in a format that resembles a stock
quote or a mortgage rate that a consumer would go out onto the
Internet to view. That's a very different paradigm than what has
evolved from more complicated desktop reporting and on-line
analytical processing systems.
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