Duke Energy Improves Business Intelligence Design and Governance with Balanced Insight Consensus® Platform

CINCINNATI, OHIO – May 1, 2006 - Balanced Insight, a leader in providing organizations with a company-wide platform that drives better-designed and more business-focused business intelligence applications, announced that Duke Energy (NYSE DUK) has selected Balanced Insight to provide an enterprise business intelligence design and architecture, based on the Balanced Insight Consensus® platform.

Duke Energy selected Balanced Insight’s software for it's ability to establish an enterprise stewardship program related to their data management solutions. Those solutions range from enterprise performance management to financial analytics to IT strategic workforce management to enterprise risk management. Balanced Insight's Consensus® platform delivers robust, high value results with consistent business meaning.

About Duke Energy
Duke Energy is one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, with over 4 million U.S. customers. The company has approximately 36,000 megawatts of electricity generating capacity, a large natural gas distribution operation, and international energy interests. Duke Energy is headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., and is a Fortune 500 company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK.
For more information visit www.duke-energy.com

About Balanced Insight, Inc.
Balanced Insight, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, helps companies double the return on their business intelligence (BI) and performance management investments. Its signature Balanced Insight Consensus® software is a company-wide platform that brings business focus to the BI development process and automates the arduous task of giving all data a consistent business meaning — what Gartner calls semantic reconciliation. This process leads to more trusted and widely-adopted BI investments with lower ongoing support costs.
For more information visit www.balancedinsight.com