Balanced Insight Consensus® 3.3 Released

CINCINNATI, OH - March 3, 2008 - Balanced Insight today announced the release of Balanced Insight Consensus® 3.3, a powerful process automation and blueprint collaboration tool for use in developing rapid-delivery BI architecture. The already-robust stature of the current Balanced Insight Consensus® platform has made significant inroads with customers who are looking to develop a common language between their IT and business users. The launch of Balanced Insight Consensus® 3.3 will make organizations even more empowered to bring semblance, understanding and agreement upon business intelligence solutions.

“We continue to evolve the Balanced Insight Consensus® product line with enhancements designed to improve our customer's ability to effectively create an infintely-usable data stewardship process" stated Tom Hammergren, president and CEO of Balanced Insight. “These evolutions – specifically in usability, installation, and integration with other systems, will continue to drive our customer's success with our high-value business intelligence solutions."

With this release of Balanced Insight Consensus® , the labor-intensive process of giving disparate enterprise data a consistent business meaning — what Gartner calls semantic reconciliation — becomes highly automated, making the resulting information more trusted, more usable, and more valued. Balanced Insight Consensus® becomes the assistant to the enterprise data stewards and business intelligence designers whom ensure the quality, use, and literacy of the information assets throughout the enterprise. Balanced Insight Consensus® supports flexible workflow processes to enable approval by stakeholders and/or BI design counsels.

Balanced Insight Consensus® 3.3 provides the following enhanced feature set:

Easy Install version: Balanced Insight Consensus® 3.3 is available as an easy-to-install bundled application. Rapidly deliver Consensus® on any compatible PC to increase organizational BI development.

Improved Interoperability:
Consensus® 3.3 improves support for Business Objects and Cognos BI platforms. Support for CA AllFusion ERWin, Common Warehouse Model XMI, Balanced Insight Consensus® XML, DDLUtils, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Analytical Services, Mondrian, Oracle, and Oracle Warehouse Builder is unchanged.

Improved Documentation:
Consensus® 3.3 includes an improved documentation set, with specific and concise definitions and process explanations.

About Balanced Insight
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.
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