1. Issue 5.0-2 What’s New in the Quadstone System Version 5 Wednesday December 1 st, 2004 7am PST / 10am EST / 3pm GMT

2. © 2004 Quadstone Quadstone System Webinars To increase your effectiveness with Quadstone by refreshing and developing your skills Presented live by a Quadstone System expert, with interactive questions and answers The format varies: demos, slides, post-webinar and/or click-along exercises Topics include Quick Start: re-acquainting yourself with Quadstone Specialist: deeper drill-down on specific applications What's New: awareness of latest enhancements Customized: for your specific needs if required To complement our face-to-face, in-depth training http://support.quadstone.com/services/training/ http://support.quadstone.com/services/training/

3. © 2004 Quadstone What's New in Version 5.0 Presenter: Patrick Surry, VP Customer Services Overview: Version 5.0 was launched in March 2004, with 5.0C released in October. This webinar highlights the key new features and functionality and illustrates some the release’s “best-kept secrets” Audience: Existing Quadstone users that plan to use Version 5.0 and want to learn more about it Format: A live demonstration with slides for sign- posting; no follow up exercises Duration: 1 hour, including Q&A

4. © 2004 Quadstone Where to get help Documentation: Start>All Programs>Quadstone, latest updates at http://support.quadstone.com/documentation http://support.quadstone.com/documentation Quadstone System Help What’s new in the Quadstone System 5.0 Data-build command and TML reference Managing Transactionhouse 5 Data Builds with QSBuild Customer-specific release notes Support: Web: http://support.quadstone.com/http://support.quadstone.com/ Email: support@quadstone.comsupport@quadstone.com Tel: (US) 1-800-335-3860, (UK/IE/BE) 00800 1220 4491 (All) +44 131 220 4491

5. © 2004 Quadstone Business Person: CMO LOB VP Product Manager Analytical Team The Vision – bringing people together Knows markets Knows channels Knows products Owns business goals Knows methods Knows models Knows tools Owns access to data Shared understanding Better decisions Results sooner Shared understanding Better decisions Results sooner

6. © 2004 Quadstone The Quadstone System

7. © 2004 Quadstone V5 design goals Collaboration Productivity Openness Shared understanding, better decisions; results sooner by involving business managers More output from analytical resources by making it easier and faster for less expert users Easier to integrate with existing systems and data

8. © 2004 Quadstone Highlights: Productivity New data import wizards Drag & drop data between client and server Quadstone System data-build commands Point-and-click data preparation More comprehensive online documentation

9. © 2004 Quadstone Highlights: Openness ODBC database connectivity, SQL queries SAS, SPSS and dBASE data file access More integration and customization points New tool-following-like dynamic link to Excel

10. © 2004 Quadstone Highlights: Collaboration HTML-based reports for data audits and model snapshots Result Viewers and Result Viewer Plugins

11. © 2004 Quadstone We’ve kept the best All the core functionality of Version 4.x The focus format is unchanged

12. Issue 5.0-2 Demo

13. © 2004 Quadstone New Shortcut Bar

14. © 2004 Quadstone More functionality in QSE

15. © 2004 Quadstone Data import/export improvements Improved database access Any ODBC source SQL queries Flat-file wizard Third-party import/export XLS, SAS, SPSS, dBASE etc. Drag & drop desktop files

16. © 2004 Quadstone Usability improvements Better overall look and feel All Decisionhouse tables support drag-copy Saved settings between sessions Better Edit  Preferences… control Ignore repeated warnings Full-screen mode

17. © 2004 Quadstone Profile and Audits, Model Snapshots

18. © 2004 Quadstone Viewers Clearer way to choose aggregations More aggregation functions available Controlled display of empty categories Null results displayed as gray

19. © 2004 Quadstone Direct export of output to Excel Send to Excel From any tool displaying data Link to Excel Live update during Quadstone session Copy & paste, drag & drop also work

20. © 2004 Quadstone Result Viewers and Plugins Save views as a “cube” Send or email them Standalone viewers work like the real thing… …but no need for access to a server

21. © 2004 Quadstone Main Window and Table Viewer Comments are shown as hover text Comments may be in HTML URLs in Table Viewer act as hyperlinks Table Viewer Go to Record option

22. © 2004 Quadstone Field derivation and FDL Improvements to Derivation Functions window Null-ignoring sum, mean etc. Functions to convert (“cast”) datatypes Ability to use “=” for string comparison New isselected() function Ability to use standard datatypes as user-defined function parameters

23. © 2004 Quadstone Binning Editor Optimize binning improvements New Field menu with Interpret, Copy, Paste and Delete operations Simplified use of multiple binnings Improvements to user-defined binning More user-friendly handling of unbinnable fields Editing of end bins Changes to categorical edit panel

24. © 2004 Quadstone Decision Tree Builder Uplift modeling Gains table Qini graph Change to minimum segment sizes Improvements to interaction with Decision Tree Builder display Presentational improvements Better zooming

25. © 2004 Quadstone Scorecard Builder New customer satisfaction scorecard model types A new preference to set the default model type (risk, churn etc.) has been added. Simplified transformations

26. © 2004 Quadstone Cluster Builder Integrated visualization support

27. © 2004 Quadstone Modeling—General Support for “What-if” analysis Ability to add comments to decision trees and scorecards

28. © 2004 Quadstone Transactionhouse 5 Based on small modular utilities operating primarily on foci Run via command-line, QSE GUIs, or XML build plan More reliable, extensible, scalable than other approaches  More user-friendly, robust, automated data-builds RDBMS1 RDBMS2 Flat files Foci RDBMS1 RDBMS2 Flat files Foci Measure FOCUS Sort Join Enhance etc. XML Build Plan

29. © 2004 Quadstone Any questions?

30. © 2004 Quadstone Webinar follow-up Slides are available from http://www.quadstone.com/training/webinars/ http://www.quadstone.com/training/webinars/ Data is in $QSHOME/ext/demo/ on your server For more in-depth training (our 1-day Version 5 Upgrade Course), contact support@quadstone.com support@quadstone.com

31. © 2004 Quadstone Any further questions? Any follow-up questions, feedback, or problems, contact support@quadstone.com support@quadstone.com

32. © 2004 Quadstone Upcoming Webinars 2004: Getting Started with the Quadstone System Wednesday, 15th December 7am PST / 10am EST / 3pm GMT / 4pm CET 2005: Please let us know if there’s a webinar topic you’d like to see: support@quadstone.comsupport@quadstone.com http://www.quadstone.com/training/webinars/