LECCOTECH and Ambeo Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Optimal SQL Performance and Database Usage Tracking Solutions

San Francisco, CA / Colorado Springs, CO - April 4, 2003
LECCO Technology, a leading provider of SQL optimization solutions, and Ambeo, the leader in data warehouse end user usage tracking, performance and query monitoring solutions, today announced they have entered into a strategic partnership.

This relationship allows problematic queries identified by either Ambeo's Usage Tracker™ or Activity Tracker™ to be submitted to LECCO SQL Expert for automatic and rapid optimization. LECCO SQL Expert automatically generates every semantically equivalent SQL statement to the source SQL and benchmarks the results to find the fastest alternative resulting in an immediate performance gain. LECCO SQL Expert is proven technology with thousands of licenses already deployed worldwide.

LECCOTECH VP International Sales, Tony Dee, comments, "We are very pleased to partner with Ambeo. They have a comprehensive product portfolio for database usage tracking and end user query performance management in Decision Support/Business Intelligence environments and LECCO SQL Expert is the ideal complement to their solutions. It is widely acknowledged that the single biggest reason for poor database performance is the SQL code at the heart of every interrogation of the database. It is especially critical in today's IT environment that once Ambeo identifies and drills-down to problematic SQL, that DBAs and support staff can resolve SQL-related problems as quickly as possible. LECCO SQL Expert allows them to do this - automatically."

Ambeo National Sales Manager, Kim Nevins, adds, "Ambeo has a long history of providing database usage tracking and end user query performance management to customers with databases of all sizes. While our solutions are able to identify long running and other problematic queries, LECCO SQL Expert will provide our customers a way to resolve SQL issues quickly and improve the performance of their queries."

LECCO SQL Expert is available immediately from LECCOTECH sales offices or via Ambeo and its resellers.


About LECCO Technology, Inc.
LECCOTECH provides the most advanced enterprise performance tuning solutions in the industry by incorporating artificial intelligence technology to achieve the highest level of SQL optimization for Oracle, Sybase, DB2 UDB and Microsoft SQL Server databases. The company offers worldwide sales, service and support through its offices in San Francisco, CA, in the U.S.; Toronto and Ottawa, Canada; Coventry, UK/EMEA; and in Hong Kong. LECCOTECH also markets its other platforms through a distribution network that covers major markets in EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

For further information, please contact:
Darrin Swan, LECCOTECH
Tel: (415) 901-8225
E-mail: darrin@leccotech.com


About Ambeo
Since 1997, Ambeo's solutions have provided database auditing, user access monitoring and data usage management to Fortune 1000 companies with some of the largest database environments in the world. Ambeo's True Zero Overhead™ solutions provide information about how users actually interact with data. Using this information, Compliance, Security and IT management gain the visibility and understanding required to confirm regulatory compliance, protect data privacy, reduce risk of unauthorized data access, proactively manage data environments, maximize database investments, improve performance and assure end-user satisfaction.


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For more information contact:
Deborah Henken
Highland Team
Phone: 650-224-9295
Email: dhenken@highlandteam.com