Utilizing leading-edge technology from VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, Panorama Software has built the first-of-its-kind Virtual Appliance to provide customers with the most cost-effective and user-friendly means to deploy their flagship enterprise BI solution – Panorama NovaView®.

“Panorama is changing the rules on how business intelligence applications are deployed and put into the hands of the information worker,” said Oudi Antebi, Vice President Marketing and Strategy, Panorama Software. “The value and importance of BI continues to grow within companies of all sizes and across all industries. With more decision makers accountable for the results within an organization, the last thing a company wants to deal with is complex BI deployments that consume precious IT resources. The value of BI is getting critical information into the hands of the people who need it. Today’s announcement of the first BI Virtual Appliance will help companies to get one step closer to meeting that goal.”

The Panorama NovaView® Virtual Appliance enables customers to test drive and deploy a full-featured version of the Company’s flagship solution, fully-equipped with the core NovaView® components including:

- Panorama NovaView® Server

- Panorama NovaView® Analytics

- Panorama NovaView® Smart Reporting

- Panorama NovaView® Visuals

- Panorama NovaView® Dashboards

- Panorama NovaView® Business Modeler

- Panorama NovaView® Scorecards

“The Panorama NovaView Virtual Appliance provides tremendous flexibility for companies that are in the evaluation process, as it has all of the advanced features and functionality found in the native NovaView solution, but it enables users to deploy the solution more quickly and easily than ever before,” said Jordan Friedman, Senior Marketing Manager, Panorama Software. “With our Virtual Appliance, end users have a new way to deploy a fully-featured, enterprise-grade BI solution.”

The Panorama NovaView® Virtual Appliance also includes a Configuration Wizard to streamline the process of connecting directly to an organization’s data systems, and it offers sample data and views so customers can easily familiarize themselves with the product. Panorama Software is currently working with VMware to have their Virtual Appliance fully certified.

Shared by Cartesis Analytics, Cartesis Finance and Cartesis Planning, the Cartesis 10 integrated data model (IDM) offers a rich depository and single source for financial and operational management information. Much of the new Cartesis Analytics offering embeds Panorama’s BI technology through this exclusive partnership agreement.

“As a global leader in business intelligence solutions, we are pleased to partner with one of the industry’s best in performance management,” said Eynav Azarya, CEO, Panorama Software. “The partnership between Panorama and Cartesis has been a natural synergy since the research and development stage, and we are proud to work with Cartesis to offer an innovative and strategic BI technology for their CPM solution.”

“Cartesis chose Panorama after evaluating a number of different BI solutions,” said Didier Benchimol, CEO, Cartesis. “Our decision to partner with Panorama and integrate its technology as the engine to drive analysis, reporting, scorecards and dashboards within Cartesis 10 was made for many reasons, including the ability to fully and seamlessly integrate with Microsoft products. Panorama simply offers the most flexible solution with the greatest ability to accommodate our customers’ needs.”

About Panorama Software

Panorama Software empowers global organizations with the ability to rapidly identify trends, maximize business opportunities and improve corporate performance and results through enterprise business intelligence and performance management solutions. Panorama^® NovaView^TM, the company’s flagship solution, amplifies the impact of the information worker through a tightly integrated and complete suite of analysis, reporting, scorecard, dashboard and data modeling applications that support the two leading Business Intelligence platforms, SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Panorama NovaView allows end users to freely explore their data using scalable and intuitive applications.

Founded in 1993, Panorama is a leading innovator in Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and Multidimensional Expressions (MDX). Panorama sold its OLAP technology to Microsoft Corporation in 1996 and is now integrated into the SQL Server platform as SQL Server Analysis Services. Panorama supports over 1,000 customers worldwide in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, telecommunications and life sciences. Panorama has a wide eco-system of partners in 30 countries, and maintains offices throughout North America, EMEA and Asia. More information is available at www.panorama.com.