Matisse Software Introduces Matisse 8.3 with Data Analysis and Reporting Innovations.

Mountain View, CA - August 3, 2009 – Matisse Software today announces the immediate availability of Matisse 8.3, the next-generation data management platform to build and deploy cost effective dynamic data-driven applications. Matisse 8.3 extends SQL query features optimized for data analysis and reporting enabling organizations to make intelligent decisions about difficult business problems cost effectively.

Matisse 8.3 introduces new reporting and analysis capabilities designed to implement high-performance “what-if” scenarios and to build flexible and effective reports that deliver faster more meaningful insights to business users in the organizations.

“In today's information age, managers expect immediate access to real-time key performance indicators of the organization that could impact important decisions;” said Didier Cabannes, President and CEO of Matisse Software. “Matisse 8.3 illustrates our commitment to responding to our client's demand for innovative features supporting on-demand processing of both historical and real-time data.”

Some of the highlights of Matisse 8.3 new features:

• Provide fast, intuitive, top-down analysis of large volumes of data built on the Matisse Object Model.
• Enable high-performance predictive analysis by using server-side SQL-based object programming.
• Optimize performance to discover trends and patterns existing in your data to help users make intelligent decisions.

Matisse 8.3 offers an unequaled value proposition to .NET, Java and C++ developers alike who require high performance on complex data.

Some of the specific advantages of Matisse 8.3 include:

• Reduced application complexity with direct object-to-object mapping.
• Simplified and accelerated development through the fusion of native object support and SQL.
• Full remote administration of distributed Matisse database servers on a local network.
• Significantly improved throughput and no logging burden with a unique versioning engine.
• No schema modification downtime with dynamic schema evolution.
• 24x7 proven high availability through data replication with database mirroring and fault-tolerant database server.
• Support for virtually all object languages with extensive language bindings and an open API.

Matisse 8.3 supports the popular platforms with Windows, Linux, Java and .NET frameworks, SQL and XML standards, and a broad range of language bindings including Java, C++, C, C#, VB.NET, Python, Perl, PHP and Eiffel. Most language bindings are published as open source software.

Pricing and Availability
Matisse 8.3 is immediately available. Pricing starts at $1,920 for the Standard Edition. Pricing for the Lite Edition starts at $125. A free developer version can be downloaded from www.matisse.com

About Matisse Software
Matisse Software, Inc. delivers database software and services to companies that need to rapidly, and cost effectively, develop and deploy scalable applications and services. Matisse, the company's flagship product, is the first ever SQL-Object programmable data server on the market. Matisse has enabled developers across the world to implement applications and services that require high performance on complex data that goes beyond the modeling capabilities of legacy relational databases. The Matisse database has been powering mission critical systems including nuclear power plants and pharmaceutical plants for over a decade. Matisse Software Inc. is a privately held company. For more information visit www.matisse.com.

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Matisse Software, Inc. Press Contact
Robert Villeneuve
press@matisse.com
www.matisse.com