DATA ADVANTAGE GROUP ANNOUNCES GLOBALIZATION OF THE METACENTER PLATFORM

 Originally Posted: SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 27, 2004

Data Advantage Group, Inc., a leading provider of information asset management software and services, today announced the globalization of its MetaCenter information asset management platform. With the newest release of MetaCenter 3.1, internationalization and localization add immediate support for Chinese and Portuguese languages.

Shipping now, MetaCenter 3.1 addresses the needs of international and multinational organizations that are looking to drive value by better understanding the complex interdependencies of their information systems and by bridging the gap between their business and technical communities within their organizations. With MetaCenter, organizations can easily document operational, functional and process-oriented information and interrelationships to provide impact analysis and cross-organizational traceability.

“With support for these new languages, international users of MetaCenter can now customize MetaCenter’s web-based interface to display in their local language. Furthermore, users can now view, access and extend their data sets for all of the ActiveLinx we offer, in their native languages. This presents a great opportunity for international customers to benefit from MetaCenter’s advanced features and easy-to-use interface,” explains Dan Soschin, Director of Customer Relations. In the area of foreign languages and character sets, MetaCenter 3.1 provides multi-byte support for Asian languages and full Unicode/UTF-8 support. All international time and date formats are also supported.

About Data Advantage Group

Data Advantage Group is a leading provider of best-in-class information asset management solutions designed specifically for the distributed real-time enterprise. Data Advantage Group’s MetaCenter Platform is the first practical solution to provide a clear and unambiguous definition and history of the data and standards organizations rely upon when running their businesses.

For over five years, Data Advantage Group has been consistently delivering value to its customers through the MetaCenter Platform. MetaCenter’s design is driven by the specific needs of Data Advantage Group’s customers for a real-time distributed meta data management solution. The goal from the onset was to create the first third generation solution to provide “End-to-End Meta data Management and Analytics” for the distributed enterprise.

MetaCenter has a proven global track record with large and diverse clients, such as Allmerica Financial, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Cable & Wireless, The Life Insurance Division of Pacific Life, T-Mobile and VW Credit. For more information, call +1 .415.947.0400 or visit the Data Advantage Group web site at http://www.dag.com/.