What’s New in the Quadstone System Version 5.1 Thursday, June 23, am Pacific, 12pm Eastern, 5pm UK/Ireland Friday, June 24, pm UK/Ireland, 3pm Central European, 9am Eastern US Starting in 15 minutesStarting in 10 minutesStarting in 5 minutesStarting in 2 minutesStarting now Please join the teleconference call now; if you have any difficulty, contact

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© 2005 Quadstone What's New in Version 5.1 Presenter: Alistair Ewing, Product Manager Overview: Version 5.1 will be released for General Availability 4 th July This webinar highlights the key new features and functionality and illustrates some the release’s “best-kept secrets.” Audience: Existing Quadstone users that plan to use Version 5.1 and want to learn more about it. Format: A live demonstration with slides for sign- posting; no follow-up exercises Duration: 1 hour

© 2005 Quadstone Quadstone System Version 5.1 Key themes: Performance Usability Collaboration General Availability: 4 th July 2005 The 10 th Anniversary release!

© 2005 Quadstone Business-centric analysis, circa 1995 Data Decision Collation Preprocessing Eyeballing Model Building Eyeballing Postprocessing Output The Business Analyst “in the loop”

© 2005 Quadstone New viewers Data Decision Collation Preprocessing Eyeballing Model Building Eyeballing Postprocessing Output The Business Analyst “in the loop” For the Decisionhouse user: Compare segments Across treated/control partitions Across multiple measures Better use of block colors; Automatic categorical interpretation; Main window comments; results directly from viewers; Web-enabled Map Viewer Plugins.

© 2005 Quadstone Easier data access Data Decision Collation Preprocessing Eyeballing Model Building Eyeballing Postprocessing Output The Business Analyst “in the loop” For anyone accessing data: Simplified flat file access: Fixed-format flat file wizard Much simpler for all formats Improved format “guessing” Extended access to stats datasets: From the command line As input to Profile and Audit

© 2005 Quadstone New Data Build Commands Data Decision Collation Preprocessing Eyeballing Model Building Eyeballing Postprocessing Output The Business Analyst “in the loop” For the data architect: Join and merge many foci; Simplified join behavior with duplicate keys; “Every field except” restrictions on inputs; Improved error messages; Updated and accessible help…

© 2005 Quadstone Improved performance Data Decision Collation Preprocessing Eyeballing Model Building Eyeballing Postprocessing Output The Business Analyst “in the loop” For the data architect: In particular for the Data Build Commands, at scale – “just work out of the box”

© 2005 Quadstone New Data Build Manager Data Decision Collation Preprocessing Eyeballing Model Building Eyeballing Postprocessing Output The Business Analyst “in the loop” (aka qsbuild) For the analyst: Execute and parameterize data builds via a graphical interface. For the data architect: Robust, scalable, parameterizable data-build utility for (complex) customer- oriented ETL

© 2005 Quadstone Maintenance Top 5 issues-fixed: Focus refresh with categoricals Whitespace in audits path Field naming in join wizard Left outer join in qsjoin Significance with single customer Top 5 feature requests: Auto-interpretation of string fields Comments in Main Window Better color discrimination Join and merge on > 2 foci Exclude fields in DBCs 500 issues completed (~100 new feature reqs.) = ~50 customer Call Reports Longest-standing request: Improved color discrimination [Feb ’98]

© 2005 Quadstone Availability and rollout Early Availability: April 2005 General Availability: 4 th July 2005 Rollout: Contact Quadstone System SupportQuadstone System Support Phased introduction options: data builds first

© 2005 Quadstone Where to find out more Quadstone System Support website: Documentation What’s new in the Quadstone System 5.1 Updated Quadstone System help Updated Quadstone System data-build command and TML reference New Data Build Manager reference Customer-specific release notes

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© 2005 Quadstone Upcoming webinars See If there’s a webinar topic you’d like to see, please let us know via Getting Started with the Quadstone System Wednesday July 27, am Pacific 11am Central 12 noon Eastern Getting Started with the Quadstone System Thursday July 28, :00 UK/Ireland 15:00 Central European Introducing the Data Build Manager (aka qsbuild) Thursday August 25, am Pacific 11am Central 12 noon Eastern Introducing the Data Build Manager (aka qsbuild) Friday August 26, :00 UK/Ireland 15:00 Central European

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