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Competitive Profiles Version 4 Serves Up a Feature-Packed Enhancement Release for IT Infrastructure Professionals

September 25, 2006 - Sydney, Australia

Ideas International, the leading provider of IT infrastructure product comparisons, today released Competitive Profiles Version 4. This new software release features a powerful set of user enhancements that are designed to improve the productivity of professionals engaged in evaluating enterprise-class server and storage solutions.

With a comprehensive interface redesign, new personalized home page features, and a completely restructured product profile page, Competitive Profiles Version 4 delivers a significantly improved user experience that is further enhanced by a series of powerful new analysis tools.

Version 4 delivers new research analysis features for tracking configuration price history and cost of ownership price history, as well as other significant new features such as a comparative server performance ratio in the Competitive Landscape section and user-friendly reporting mechanisms to track per-product changes as they occur. In addition, Version 4 provides new Help features – including a context-sensitive online User Guide and a new Quick Start Guide – that will benefit new and existing Competitive Profiles Version 4 users alike.

Competitive Profiles is an online tool that allows users to compare server and storage technologies and related decision data. It is updated daily with the very latest industry changes. Coverage includes comprehensive product and service pricing data, performance results and analysis, product specifications and features evaluation, cost of ownership analysis, and reference information on obsolete systems.

Commenting on the new website release, Ideas International CEO, Mr. Ian Birks said “We are pleased to be delivering valuable and innovative interface enhancements for infrastructure professionals on both the buy and sell sides of the industry. It is widely recognized that Competitive Profiles is the clear market leader in the industry for its purpose and these improvements lift it to an even higher value level for our clients. Any large corporation that is planning an investment in server and storage infrastructure should ensure that they have Competitive Profiles in-house to facilitate prudent and independent purchasing governance.”

About Ideas International

Ideas International (IDEAS), a publicly listed company, is the leading supplier of comparative enterprise infrastructure research data to the global IT industry. With regional offices in three countries (Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), IDEAS is a major mid-tier player in the global IT research market, offering a comprehensive top-to-bottom stack of analysis, consulting, and price/performance tracking and benchmarking capabilities for both tIT vendors and buyers.

For further information or interviews / photos, please contact:

Ian Birks
CEO and Managing Director
Ideas International Limited

Phone: + 61 (0) 2 9472 7702 (direct)
Mobile: + 61 (0) 408 64 11 22
E-mail: ianb@ideasinternational.com