Datawatch and Barr Systems Partner to Provide Advanced Business Intelligence Solutions for Enterprises

Partnership offers companies a means to easily archive, distribute, and analyze existing reports from any computer system over the Internet

Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ:DWCH), a leading provider of enterprise reporting solutions, data transformation tools and support center software, and Barr Systems, Inc., an innovator of high-performance data communications products, today announced a Strategic Partnership Agreement. Under the agreement, the companies will resell each other's products and integrate them into comprehensive enterprise-wide solutions that address business intelligence, report management, printing management, and data conversion.

Barr Systems will resell Datawatch's Monarch/ES Enterprise products. Monarch/ES will provide Barr customers the ability to archive, view, analyze and share current and historical report information over an intranet or the Internet with no new programming or report writing. Companies will also have a quick and easy means to derive business intelligence from those reports, as well as share critical information from reports with partners, vendors and customers without any external software support burdens.

"As a total solution provider for printing and connectivity, we seek industry partners that can significantly add to the value we bring to our customers," said Rana Ayoub Schafer, director of sales and marketing at Barr Systems, Inc. "Our partnership with Datawatch will allow our customer base to leverage their investment in Barr solutions with Monarch/ES. They will get a platform that includes powerful report mining and publication features without developing new reports or building a new reporting infrastructure."

Datawatch will resell the Barr Enterprise Print Server, which will offer Datawatch customers the ability to easily manage print data and file transfers from multiple mainframe or client/server hosts and deliver the data directly to Monarch/ES.

"The combined technologies of Datawatch and Barr Systems will enable organizations to quickly and effectively transform their business information into competitive advantage," said John Kitchen, vice president of marketing for Datawatch Corporation. "Barr's printing and connectivity solutions will allow Datawatch to completely automate the input of report data from multiple systems and environments into Monarch/ES. We are excited to join with Barr Systems to provide powerful enterprise reporting solutions that fully leverage the huge investment companies have made in their existing reports and reporting systems."

About Barr Systems

Barr Systems' software and hardware products provide enterprise-wide printing and connectivity solutions to organizations ranging from Fortune 1,000 corporations to small businesses. Incorporated in 1978, the company serves an international customer base that has installed more than 35,000 products. Experts in print management and host connectivity, Barr Systems works in alliance with other communications and networking vendors to offer complete systems integration. Thousands of financial, government, and education groups have turned to Barr for their print and file management solutions. Barr products help these businesses print on demand more than 300 billion pages each year.

About Datawatch Corporation

Datawatch Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise reporting solutions, data transformation tools and support center software that helps organizations increase productivity, reduce costs and gain competitive advantage. Datawatch products are used in more than 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide. Datawatch is best known for its desktop report mining application Monarch, which has sold more than 300,000. Monarch lets users extract and manipulate data from ASCII report files produced on any mainframe, midrange, client/server or PC system.

Monarch/ES is a scalable Enterprise Reporting solution that leverages existing reports and reporting systems. Monarch/ES fully delivers on the promise of Enterprise Reporting without requiring a big investment in new reporting infrastructure. The Monarch/ES enterprise reporting solution set includes the Monarch/ES Report Server for report archiving and report distribution over LANs; the Monarch/ES Report Portal for Web-based report retrieval via the Internet; and Monarch Data Pump for data replication and migration.

Datawatch works with VARs, integrators, consultants and independent software vendors who sell and support Datawatch products. In addition, Datawatch works with OEM customers who embed Datawatch components and technologies in their own solutions.

Monarch, Monarch/ES, Monarch Data Pump, Monarch/ES Report Server, and Monarch/ES Report Portal are trademarks of Datawatch Corporation. Barr Systems and Barr Enterprise Print Server are trademarks of Barr Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.