Las Vegas, Nevada, November 13, 2000 - Cygron Inc., today announced the release of DataScope 4.0 - a major upgrade to its award-winning visual data mining and decision support platform.

By adding powerful prediction, knowledge discovery and automation features to the advanced data visualization and decision support capabilities of version 3.0, DataScope 4.0 offers a fully integrated data analysis solution that addresses all phases of the data mining process. Its new modular architecture makes it easy to use as a standalone product or integrate into any third-party application.

"The introduction of DataScope 4.0 represents a significant milestone in our mission to make data mining both easy to use and affordable to small and medium size organizations" said Roger Wolf, Cygron's CEO.

Mr. Wolf added, "With DataScope 4.0 these organizations can turn their customer information and other databases into assets to improve their bottom line".

Target applications for the new release include customer relationship management (CRM), customer profiling, predicting customer churn, supply chain analysis, assessment of loan applicants, fraud detection, scoring of decision alternatives, and many more. Target customers include banking, financial services, insurance, telecommunications and retail. In addition, corporate and third-party developers can create custom applications that bolt on to the DataScope 4.0 engine and hence profit from its powerful data visualization and data mining capabilities.

The new release is expected to be shipped to the marketplace before the end of the year. It comprises the following modules:

Explorer - Visualization and Decision Support

Combining innovative and decision provoking database graphics with powerful clustering, relationship finding, data transformation and decision modeling capabilities, Explorer provides an easy to use, intuitive and flexible environment for performing data understanding, data mining and decision making across a wide range of industries and applications.

Predictor - Prediction and Data Mining

Extends the data mining capabilities of Explorer by using powerful state-of-the-art knowledge discovery and prediction modeling algorithms. Target applications include: modeling customer value, predicting customer churn, assessing loan applicants, identifying fraudulent transactions and many more.

Scheduler- Automate your Data Mining.

Automatically analyses your database on a regular basis, monitoring business performance, undertaking regular predictions and publishing the results for viewing throughout your organization. Runs DataScope unattended on servers or desktops, regularly refreshing the data and automatically updating charts and re-computing decisions and predictions.

Datamap - Import from Relational Databases

Extends the import capabilities of DataScope by allowing the import of information from multiple tables in relational databases. Intended for database administrators and more technical end-users, it provides a means to shield less technical end-users and business analysts from detailed knowledge of database schema and the burden of data pre-processing activities.