Company Interview Excerpt MICHAEL MACDONALD - BOARD VISUAL MINING INC Full article published: 11/12/2004     For Subscribers Get this article online now! Order just this article Get Financial Filings and Annual Reports for Companies featured on TWST from EasyReports.net TWST: We'd like to begin, if you will, with a brief historical sketch of Visual Mining, and a picture of the things you are doing at the present time? Mr. MacDonald: Visual Mining is almost nine years old. We are in Rockville, which is just outside the Washington, DC beltway in the heart of the I-270 tech corridor. Our focus has always been on making data visualization fast and easy to use. We started in 1996 with simple chart components and have grown over time to support more of an end-to-end complete data presentation and reporting solution. Our flagship product is called the NetCharts Reporting Suite. It includes a server and designer component. The product installs quickly, can link to just about any data source, and is used to create professional, dynamic reports. The results can be deployed either as Web pages or PDF reports. It integrates in all kinds of different environments: UNIX, WINDOWS, J2EE application servers, portals, and IIS. In terms of customers, we have over 2,000 in virtually every industry, every size of business worldwide, from Asia to North America to the Middle East. Some of our customers are companies like GE, CIBC, VISA, and Citigroup. We do work with consultants from IBM, EDS, and PriceWaterhouse. And then a large share of our business comes from OEM relationships with Oracle, Seibel, Hyperion, IBM and lots more. TWST: How long did it take you to, as it were, evolve the product? Mr. MacDonald: It's really been a continual process since 1996. We started out, like I mentioned, just with chart components. And then about the late 1990s, early 2000, we moved more into a server mode because a lot of our customers were asking to have connection to backend data sources, easier integration, and that sort of thing. So it's been pretty much continuous since then. Tickers included in this excerpt: Have TWST notes emailed to you free: Email address: For more information call (212) 952 7400. The Wall Street Transcript does not endorse any of the comments made by interviewees, and does not make stock recommendations.

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