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MITS Discover is a success for Intuit Eclipse

After a Successful Initial Offering, MITS Discover OLAP Business Intelligence Gains General Availability for Intuit© Eclipse™ Wholesale Distribution customers

SEATTLE, WA, December 14, 2005 - Management Information Tools, Inc. announces the full availability of the MITS Discover OLAP Business Intelligence Solution for Intuit Eclipse DMS customers. MITS Discover will benefit Intuit Eclipse wholesale distributors by extending their ability for improved strategic and tactical decision-making, by providing them a unique interactive reporting tool for gathering, managing, distributing and analyzing data.

Intuit Eclipse is a MITS Application Support Plan (MAS Plan) reseller. As part of the MAS Plan, MITI handles all support, installation, customization, and technical sales assistance for the MITS Discover product, in order to provide the Intuit Eclipse with a powerful turnkey MITS Discover solution that does not require additional technical resource for the reseller. For many years now the MAS Plan has proven to be one of the most successful ways for resellers to offer MITS Discover to their customers.

"We have seen a substantial increase in our customer’s needs for Interactive Reporting and Business Intelligence at all levels of an organization. MITS Discover is a perfect fit for our clients expanding reporting and BI needs from top-level summaries to impressive in-depth source data drill-down capability. An important factor for our customers was how MITS Discover is delivered in a fast, practical and easy-to-use interactive environment. Speed and ease of use have always been very important to our customers and MITS fits those priorities very well." said Drew Mapplebeck, Intuit Eclipse Sales Manager.

"We worked with Intuit Eclipse to introducing a strategic offering of MITS Discover to an initial group of eighteen Intuit Eclipse customers and we were very successful with this introduction. The overwhelmingly positive response from the initial group sets us in a strong, confident position to offer MITS Discover to all Intuit Eclipse DMS customers," said Colin Sherman, MITS Account Executive.

"As a MITS Discover provider we are extremely pleased with the support and product reliability MITI has demonstrated during our initial period. We are excited for the expansion of the offering and to add the high level of value MITS Discover provides to all of the new and existing Intuit Eclipse DMS users." said Mapplebeck.

"MITS Discover was designed to be a very powerful and efficient OLAP Business Intelligence Solution and we see tremendous opportunity for Intuit Eclipse and MITS Discover to clearly meet the needs of their growing market," said Pat Gilbrough, President, Management Information Tools. "Intuit Eclipse is focused on providing their customers with the most complete business solution possible and partnered together we accent that very focus."

About Intuit Eclipse, Distribution Management Solutions
Intuit Distribution Management Solutions, a division of Intuit Inc., is a leading provider of business management software solutions for wholesale distributors in a number of market segments, including plumbing-heating-cooling-piping, electrical, building materials, industrial, janitorial, floor coverings and other durable goods supplies industries. Its flagship product, Intuit Eclipse, is a fully integrated, real-time enterprise resource planning system that offers wholesale distributors superior software that integrates accounting, order processing, inventory control, purchasing, price discounting, customer service and e-commerce.

Contact: Drew Mappelbeck, Sales Manager, Intuit Eclipse, 303-938-8801 ext 1112

About Intuit Inc.
Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax® software, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries® and Lacerte® are Intuit's leading tax preparation software suites for professional accountants. Intuit and Intuit Eclipse are trademarks and service marks of Intuit Inc., registered in the United States and other countries.

Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of nearly $1.9 billion in its fiscal year 2004. The company has nearly 7,000 employees with major offices in 13 states across the U.S., and offices in Canada and the United Kingdom. More information can be found at www.intuit.com.

About Management Information Tools, Inc.
Based in Seattle, WA, Management Information Tools, Inc. (www.mits.com) is the developer of the MITS Discover OLAP Business Intelligence system. MITS Discover systems are firmly entrenched in a wide range of business areas, including distribution, vehicle dealership, manufacturing, health care and services. MITS Discover is available on IBM UniVerse, IBM UniData and many other MultiValue databases.
 


   
 
 
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