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Subject: WhiteLight
Information Manager for NeXTSTEP Shipping Now

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For further information, please contact:

WhiteLight Systems, Inc. 200 Page Mill Road, Suite 200 Palo Alto, CA 94306
Phone: (415) 321-2183 Fax: (415) 321-2083 fax Email: whitelight@whitelight.com


WhiteLight Information Manager for NeXTSTEP Shipping Now

March 1, 1993 - WhiteLight Systems announced Release 1.0 of our software,
renamed WhiteLight Information Manager.  WhiteLight Information Manager is
available only on NeXTSTEP.  It is a unique implementation of object oriented
technology.  It is not just an object-oriented reworking of other software.
For many important applications, it is superior to any other software, because
at the heart of each application is a dynamic model of the business.  The
application can actually closely represent the business.

Fortune 500 companies use WhiteLight Information Manager to build integrated
EIS, DSS, and MIS applications as complex and dynamic as their business
requires, by combining the ease-of-use of EIS, the flexibility of DSS, and the
completeness of MIS.

"With WhiteLight's help, we built a complete budget system for our
international business sector in a few weeks. For the first time, we can
understand the multi-dimensional impact of our decisions," says Don Sherwood,
Staff Director of PacTel Corporation. "A consolidation and reporting process
that took weeks last year, I did myself in hours this year."

Current installed customers include:

AT&T Easy Link Services Ernst & Young NeXT Pac Tel Corporation Swiss Bank Corp
U.S. WEST WilTel

As one customer says, our product is best understood as a financial/business
modeling application.  The primary benefits are

(1) the end user CAN model the business (2) there is no redundancy (3) there
is no inconsistency (4) the application can adapt to changing business
conditions (5) information can be delivered in a real (decision) timeframe
(hours not weeks).



IM is beyond the spreadsheet and is on its way to becoming a requirement for
every global enterprise, or any enterprise that wishes to grow to scale
without mass.  We didn't invent the demand for this application - customers
have asked for the ability to go beyond the limitations enforced by
spreadsheet.

Applications currently in production use or development include:

Budgeting Financial analysis Financial reporting Multicurrency consolidations
Strategic planning Project planning Transfer pricing New business analysis
Direct marketing Real estate portfolio analysis

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Use WhiteLight Information Manager to build integrated EIS, DSS and MIS
applications that include,  for example, financial consolidation and
reporting, business planning, budgeting, transfer pricing and financial
analysis.

WhiteLight Information Manager automatically manages business objects that you
create and reuse, in an N-dimensional information architecture as complex and
dynamic as your business requires.

Small end user/developer teams design and install fully-operational
applications, tailored to business requirements, in weeks. End users modify
and extend their applications, by reusing information in a structured
architecture.

Chip Goodman President WhiteLight Systems, Inc. (415) 321-2183
chip@whitelight.com