Databeacon Wins Award for Best Desktop Information Management Tool

Date: 03/25/2003

Information Highways - TORONTO, Ontario - March 25, 2003 - Databeacon Inc, a developer of web reporting and data analysis software, today announced that it received the e-Content Award for the "Best Desktop Information Management Tool" from the e-Content Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting the e-content community in Canada.

Established in 1996, the e-Content Awards recognize industry-leading products that facilitate knowledge creation and e-business processes for Canadian business. Each entrant was judged by a panel of e-content experts on a range of criteria, including innovation, quality, and functionality. Award winning products provide users with access to strategic information, encourage knowledge sharing, enhance user productivity and contribute to competitive advantage.

"The winning products are those that display especially high levels of innovation, vision, functionality, ease of use, market fit and content," said Juanita Richardson, chairperson of the e-Content Institute's Judging Committee, made up of a panel of industry experts and users of e-Content products. "It is clear that the e-content industry in Canada is innovative and thriving."

"Databeacon takes great pride in providing our customers with leading-edge technology and superior service. This award recognizes Databeacon's fulfillment of this commitment and we are honoured recipients," said Andy Coutts, CEO and President of Databeacon Inc.

Databeacon received the award last night at the annual Canadian e-Content Awards Gala held in Toronto. For more information about the e-Content awards, please visit: www.informationhighways.net/copa/aindex.html

About the E-Content Institute
The e-Content Institute is an independent organization dedicated to advancing the interests of its members in the Canadian e-content community - developers and creators of e-content products and services and the professionals who buy, use and manage them. The Institute provides a forum for innovation and an exchange of ideas through events, briefings and networking sessions, reports and other member-driven services.

Current members of the e-Content Institute include Bowdens Media Monitoring, Business Information Group, CCH Canada, Communications Canada, CISTI, The Canadian Press, Canada NewsWire, CEDROM-SNi, Databeacon Inc., divine inc., Factiva - A Dow Jones and Reuters Company, Bell Globemedia Interactive, Humber College, HKA Data Processing, Micromedia Proquest, Infomart Ltd. a CanWest Corporation, Lexis-Nexis, Microsoft Canada, Onx Enterprise Solutions, Rogers Media, Seneca College, Statistics Canada and University of Toronto.

For more information, please visit
http://www.informationhighways.net/econtent/iinstitute.html

About Databeacon, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Databeacon Inc. is the award-winning developer of Databeacon, the Web Reporting and Data Analysis software designed for organizations whose core business involves providing data over the Internet to large communities of information consumers. Public and private sector organizations around the world are using the design, publish and dissemination features of Databeacon to increase audience reach, enable better decisions, build strong relationships and enhance competitiveness.

Databeacon's corporate headquarters are in Ottawa, Canada, with sales offices across North America, and resellers and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners offering Databeacon software in more than 25 countries around the world.

For more information on Databeacon, please visit:
www.databeacon.com