The Straits Times, Science & Tech (p20)
and The Straits Times Online (http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg)
December 15, 2000

SINGAPORE-BASED company Cygron bagged a prestigious award for its business-data software at last month’s high-profile Comdex 2000 IT exhibition in Las Vegas.

The company’s award-winning program even piqued the interest of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who spent more than 10 minutes getting familiar with the product.

Cygron’s DataScope 4.0, a proprietary data-mining application that companies can use to organise large amounts of information was voted a Best of Comdex finalist in the Best Enterprise Product category.

At last year’s Comdex show, an earlier version of the software won the Best Personal Productivity Software award.

During his tour of the exhibition, Mr Gates visited the Cygron booth to test the application himself.

“Today data overload is growing at an alarming, almost unmanageable rate,” said Cygron president Roger Wolf.

He said that DataScope 4.0 enables users to rank and compare data according to their preferences.