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"DataDirect Technologies is the unparalleled leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration," said Chad Hock, timeXtender president. "This partnership instantly increases the breadth of our support for a number of widely used database products without incurring unnecessary development costs."

Designed to fully automate and simplify business data analysis for non-technical users, timeXtender 2.0 provides an intuitive user interface for the transformation, validation and consolidation of data from different sources, with no coding required. This automation ensures data quality while making the business intelligence analysis process more accessible, less expensive and up to 80% faster than with other analytics software.

"Innovative solution providers like timeXtender realize their data connectivity choices can have a significant impact on application performance, scalability and interoperability," said John Goodson, vice president of product operations for DataDirect Technologies. "We look forward to expanding our partnership with timeXtender to help meet the data access needs of its customers worldwide."

DataDirect products are embedded by more than 270 commercial software vendors such as IBM, webMethods, Software AG and Manugistics. All the major database vendors, including Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase embed DataDirect connectivity as part of their strategic product offerings.

"We selected DataDirect because it offered the most comprehensive product line, a long track record of delivering proven technology and the strongest technical leadership position," said Heine Krog Iversen, founder and CEO of timeXtender.

About timeXtender Inc.
timeXtender Inc. is a developer of data warehousing software for business intelligence that is intuitive and simple to use. Based in Denmark, timeXtender has U.S. headquarters in Greensboro, N.C. to support its international partner network and growing worldwide user base. For more information, call 1-877-869-9847 or visit www.timextender.com.

About DataDirect Technologies
DataDirect Technologies is the software industry's only comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world's most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect® products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBCTM and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation. For more information, visit www.datadirect.com.