Lazy Software Announces "Lazy Analytics"

Lazy Software, developer of the Associative Model of Data, has signed an agreement with OLAP specialists Digital Aspects to develop on-line analytical capabilities for Sentences, Lazy Software's innovative associative database management system.

·   OLAP capability for the Sentences DBMS
·   Supports both 'XML for Analysis' and 'OLE DB for OLAP' interfaces
·   Developed by Digital Aspects

London - November 27, 2002 - Lazy Software, developer of the Associative Model of Data, has signed an agreement with OLAP specialists Digital Aspects to develop on-line analytical capabilities for Sentences, Lazy Software's innovative associative database management system.

Due for release in the first quarter of 2003, Lazy Analytics adds OLAP capabilities to Sentences Version 3. It enables Lazy Software's customers to manipulate, slice and dice data for analysis purposes. By applying analytical operations such as ratios, cumulative totals, trends and allocations across dimensions and across hierarchical levels, Sentences users can make critical business decisions based on intelligent real-time reports without the need to develop a data warehouse. Pre-aggregation techniques are used to accelerate performance.

The product will present data to a wide range of visualisation tools, using Microsoft's OLE DB for OLAP interface for Windows clients, and the newer 'XML for Analysis' interface for browser-based and thin clients. The OLAP schema and structures are defined and stored in Sentences itself. Additional functionality already slated for later releases includes support for virtual cubes, custom rollups and write-back.

Simon Williams, CEO of Lazy Software commented: "Lazy Software's customers need a tool that will allow them to undertake real-time, multi-dimensional analysis of their Sentences databases for decision support and business intelligence purposes. Digital Aspects, a new company with significant experience in analytics, was able to develop and demonstrate a very convincing prototype quicker than we would have thought possible."

David Hood, Project Leader for Digital Aspects, commented: "Digital Aspects' founders have been working with OLAP since its inception in 1992. We have a wealth of data warehouse and analytic experience with a number of major organisations. Sentences' associative structures lend themselves readily to analytical applications. Digital Aspects has taken an intuitive technology and opened it up to intelligent enterprise wide reporting."

Simon Williams concluded: "Lack of support for vital technologies such as OLAP is one of the key weaknesses of XML and object-oriented databases alike. Lazy Analytics is growing evidence of the strength of the Associative Model of Data and the functional breadth of Sentences."

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Background Information
Prior to its launch in October 2000, Lazy Software spent two years developing Sentences, an innovative database management system written in Java and based on the Associative Model of Data. The associative model of data is the first new database architecture since the advent of the Internet, and the only model to take account of its unique needs. It offers a scaleable alternative to the relational model of data. Sentences is the world's first commercial implementation of the associative model of data, and the only database architecture designed to reflect the structure of data in the real world and the way that our brains perceive and process information. As well as rapid development and deployment, and the security and scalability required by modern database management systems, the associative model of data provides many other unique capabilities

For further information on Lazy Software, please contact:
Simon Williams, Lazy Software
+44 (0) 1628 642302
mailto:simon.williams@lazysoft.com

Bill Moores, EuroPR Group
+44 (0) 208 879 3033
mailto:bmoores@europrgroup.com

For further information on Digital Aspects, please contact:
David Hood, Digital Aspects
+44 (0) 1293 871600
mailto:david.hood@digital-aspects.com

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