London, August 15 2005

Business Intelligence software vendor Contour Components Ltd announces
new version of its high-performance OLAP component for interactive
reporting and multidimensional data analysis in business applications –
ContourCube 3.0. In addition to the well-known ActiveX and VCL, this
version is also available as a .NET assembly compatible with Microsoft
Visual Studio 2003 & 2005.

ContourCube.NET is intended for .NET developers to embed rich Business
Intelligence functionality into database applications. At the same time,
the unmanaged ContourCube.NET assembly kept the outstanding performance
of the native component engine.

Contour Components’ representatives claim ContourCube 3 keeps tending to
improve business-oriented functionality for OLAP applications in various
areas, departments and business processes. Thus, the upcoming version
provides wrapping data in wide reports, enhanced operations on date
fileds for easier trending and cumulative calculations, adaptive XP- and
web-oriented appearance design and user friendly interface.

Field testing of the new software version will be entrusted to the
customers selected by Contour Components. ContourCube 3.0 is expected to
be available on the worldwide market in the current year.


About ContourCube

ContourCube is a high-performance OLAP component for interactive
reporting and data analysis. It offers embeddable OLAP technology for
Windows and web applications based on relational data. Application
powered with ContourCube allows users to create numerous nice-formed
screen and printable reports in a minute. User can interact with data:
slice and dice, drill down and roll up, pivot with sub-second response
times and without additional server.

ContourCube is presented on the worldwide market since 2001 and
conquered customers in over 50 countries, including such ones as Urban
Science, Fidelity Investments, Siemens, as well as a number of software
companies. This bring rich customer feedback, allowed to provide high
product quality and outstanding performance, proved with leading
corporations and enrich its business functionality.


About Contour Components Limited

Contour Components is a private British company. It offers Contour
Business Intelligence platform for developers and end users. Contour
software and technologies are based on over 10 years extensive expertise
of its team in writing Business Intelligence solutions for banks,
enterprises, state organizations and software developers. Thousands of
people in over 50 countries analyze data with Contour BI. Contour BI
products are used in such widely-known companies as Fidelity
Investments, Verizon Wireless, Commerzbank, JPMorgan Chase, NEC, Pfizer.

Home page of Contour Components Ltd: www.contourcomponents.com