"Maple is an invaluable tool for teaching and learning math," said
Jim Herod, Professor Emeritus, who teaches remotely for Georgia
Institute of Technology's School of Mathematics. They also use Maple to ask questions about the lectures
and to complete assignments. I have been teaching with Maple for more
than 15 years and Maple is so different from what it was years ago.

-- An integrated, extensible dictionary provides definitions of
over 5000 engineering and mathematical terms, enhancing the
ability to document, communicate and share detailed technical
information.

-- Units and/or tolerance (error ranges) support that applies to
any variable or constant., a Web-based system for creating tests,
assignments and exercises , automatically assessing student responses
and performance."

Kaidara Advisor Reinforces Brand Promise and Commitment to Customer
Satisfaction

Darty has built its strong brand recognition by offering the best prices,
largest product choice and the most reliable after-sales support for white
and brown goods.

Since February of 2005, the Kaidara's Advisor system has been in use by
over 200 agents for both Level 1 and 2 support in all regional call
centers. A recent customer satisfaction survey
conducted indicated that 95% of Darty customers were satisfied with the
real -time support and correct information they had received.

About Darty

Darty is the market leader in the French electrical goods retail sector,
with strong brand awareness and a 13. For more
information, please visit: www. He has conducted extensive research in the area of shipment
planning policies and their impact on supply chain costs, inventory costs, and
customer service.

About Supply + Demand Chain Executive
Supply + Demand Chain Executive ( http://www.

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INSIGHT solves these latest, critical, and most complex problems
for 40% of Fortune Magazine's top fifty , 70% of Business Week's most
profitable corporations, and 70% of the companies judged to have the best
supply chains. Clients often select INSIGHT when other solutions have failed.

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"With Maple 10 , we are raising the bar by delivering the
most powerful and intuitive tool for mathematical research and
education. The product seamlessly combines numeric
and symbolic calculations, explorations , mathematical notation,
documentation, buttons and sliders, and graphics and animations that
can be shared and reused. Maple 10 enables users to convey information
in a familiar way, such as the look and feel of a textbook or
technical paper, and also as executable documents that provide the
final answer. Math, engineering and science instructors can
engage students like never before by using Maple 10 to offer
interactive demonstrations and explorations, as well as to prepare
lecture material, handouts, and exercises.

A Graphing Calculator allowing access to the full power of
Maple via a familiar, intuitive interface. This capability allows
knowledge to be captured and shared, providing not only the
answer but the thinking behind the analysis.00.

"After using our knowledgebase for a few months, the productivity of our
call center operations is gaining momentum.
- Dynamic Tool: enables the knowledgebase of cases to be continuously
enriched as new solutions are experienced. Darty aims to increase its sales of
grey goods and electrical accessories over time in order to achieve similar
positions to the ones it has in white and brown goods. Reese ,
editor of Supply + Demand Chain Executive. The full
listing of the 2005 "Pros to Know" is available on Supply + Demand Chain
Executive magazine's Web site at http://www.net
(770) 642-2080

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"

Darty Chooses Kaidara for Robust Functionality and Multiple Search
Capabilities

After conducting an exhaustive search for the best solution, Darty selected
Kaidara for its extensive functionality which includes:

- Case Based Reasoning Tool: enables comparison of each new customer
problem with existing cases in the knowledgebase, which are then
matched with the best solution.1 per cent share of the French grey goods
market., INSIGHT, Inc.SDCExec. Clients include Abbott Laboratories, BASF, BPAmoco, Clorox ,
ExxonMobil, Goodyear, HP, Ingram Books, Johnson + Johnson, Kellogg, Levi
Strauss, Motorola, Pennzoil , PepsiCo, Perrier, Pfizer, Procter + Gamble,
Toyota, and Unilever.

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"

Key Features and Benefits of Maple 10

Maple 10 offers users numerous new features designed to enhance
usability, encourage knowledge capture and add to Maple's hallmark
mathematical power.maplesoft. Additionally,
virtually every major university and research institute in the world,
including MIT, Stanford, Oxford and Waterloo , has adopted Maplesoft
products to enhance their education and research activities. This contributes to
reinforce our position as number one provider of after-sales service in
France.
The X-System(R), a proprietary optimization engine, powers a network of
planning and scheduling solutions .

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Maple 10 will make it even easier for students to solve and analyze
complex problems that were not accessible thirty years ago, and
generally are not presented in textbooks even now.

Major plotting and animation enhancements, such as an
automated point-and-click Plot Builder, gridlines , axes
properties, and glossiness of surfaces make it fast and easy
to visualize and present results in intuitive, high-quality
2-D and 3-D graphics.

-- Numerous other improvements and additions, including numerical
differentiation, fractional and abstract order derivatives,
polynomial ideas, and hardware computations using complex
numbers. At its peak, the system provides assistance to 120 concurrent
users and Kaidara Advisor answers a third of the 10,000 calls per day that
Darty's call centers receive.
Candidates, for the "Pros to Know " award, are nominated by editorial
staff, advisory board and, peers through Supply + Demand Chain Executive
magazine.com ) is a bi-monthly
business magazine aimed at uniting the intelligence, news and tools necessary
to steer the supply and demand chain management professional and business
executive through the complicated, yet critical, world of supply and demand
chain management.

On the Web, visit http://www.

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Business Editors/Technology Editors

WATERLOO, Canada-- --Maplesoft(TM),
the leading provider of high-performance software tools for
engineering, science and mathematics, today announced Maple 10, a
major release of the company's flagship product that reinvents modern
technical research and education.
Moreover, since companies and institutions around the world rely on
Maplesoft to solve engineering and scientific problems, using Maple 10
in their studies is a terrific way for students to get a head start in
their careers.

Knowledge Capture

-- Full presentation control enables users to write and layout
textbook-style content , which include live calculations while
hiding the computation details.

Availability

Single user academic licenses of Maple 10 are available for US
$995. "We are pleased that Darty
has benefited from Kaidara's technology, and we look forward to supporting
the company in achieving its cost savings, process quality, and
productivity goals.INSIGHT-MSS.

In this category are included any equation or set of equations where the unknowns must be integer numbers.

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Maple 10 is the ideal analytical companion for academic
researchers.

Clickable calculus that allows the user to define problems ,
compute, integrate, differentiate, plot, animate, and explore
parameters all in a point-and-click, easy-to-use interface. Units and tolerance are carried
through all calculations , allowing engineers to check both the
final units (dimensional analysis) and tolerance or degree of
uncertainty of the final result.
- The Kaidara system automatically diagnoses the problem , in the same
way an expert agent would.8 per cent share in the French white
and brown products market and a 9. With hard-hitting analysis, viewpoints and unbiased case
studies, Supply + Demand Chain Executive uncovers each aspect of the new
supply and demand chain to keep readers on the leading edge, the frontline and
the profit zone.

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com/contact/international/index. Its standards-compliant algorithms are renowned for
their speed, accuracy and reliability. For more
information, visit www. For over four decades, Darty has publicized its
distinctive and colorful fleet of service trucks in their advertising
campaigns.

Darty's product mix is balanced with strong positions in both the white and
traditional brown goods categories.

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The package supports a wide range of common
statistical tasks such as quantitative and graphical data
analysis, symbolic manipulation of random variables ,
simulation, and curve fitting. "Their efforts in developing the
tools and processes necessary for supply chain transformation, and in
promoting new approaches to supply chain enablement, have earned them a place
on this year's Provider Pros listing. The selected 2005 "Pros
to Know" transform the industry and lead it to higher levels of efficiency
through technologically advancements for supply and demand chains.

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"
Maple 10 delivers the most advanced, complete and error-free set
of math capabilities on the market, developed and tested over 25 years
and supported by a host of new tools that make it faster and easier to
put complex math into action.
Furthermore, Maple 10 improves student comprehension levels and
scholastic performance by providing the ability to illustrate
mathematical concepts, visualize problems and illuminate theory. This provides full content and
presentation control to the user.
"This year's Provider Pros to Know have shown themselves to be thought-
leaders in their respective supply chain segments," said Andrew K. "This recognition is a
tribute to the breadth and depth of expertise that exists throughout the
entire company and underscores the importance in today's economy of supply
chain technologies that directly improve the bottom line .

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For example,
right clicking an expression provides a menu of commands that
are only meaningful to that particular expression.

Task templates and interactive task assistants enable
fill-in-the-blank problem solving for over 200 different
tasks.

-- State-of-the-art differential equation solvers that use new
sophisticated special functions to represent solutions to many
formerly unsolvable families of linear and nonlinear
differential equations. To ensure that 100% of its
customers are satisfied, product repair queries are first passed through
one of seven call centers and are then dispatched to one of 60 local repair
centers , or to one of the company's 1,000 field technicians for home repair
services.

Kaidara is an award-winning developer of software solutions which harness
the experience and know-how within an organization to streamline resolution
of complex questions and problems and reduce costs associated with
delivering customer service.

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-- A new statistics package includes a collection of functions
and interactive tools for mathematical statistics and data
analysis.

-- Support for integer linear programming, choice of solver
methods, automatic plotting of objective function and
constraints in the Optimization Assistant. The Supply + Demand Chain Executive
"Provider Pros to Know" lists individuals from supply and demand chain
software providers who exhibit deep domain knowledge and innovative thinking
within the industry."
Dr.

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Major New Release of Maplesoft Flagship Product Radically Improves Ease of Use for Academic Market; Maple 10 is the Most Powerful and Intuitive Tool for Solvin

A list of partners is
available online at
http://www. Consumers in Europe know that when they purchase a washing
machine, television set, or other product from Darty, the company will
repair the product if anything goes wrong.

- Full Web Architecture
- Enables rapid deployment of the knowledgebase.

About Kaidara, Inc.sdcexec.
These clients rely on INSIGHT to gain the greatest competitive advantage from
the best answer.

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"Since the students
in my Partial Differential Equations class are scattered all over the
country, Georgia Tech sends the lectures to them on CDs .com

Kaidara Software, Inc. Additionally, we are noticing an
increase of problems solved over the phone without the assistance of expert
technicians: +20% for white goods (appliances: washing machines,
refrigerators) and +30% for brown goods (electronic products: camcorders,
DVD players, television)," stated Mr., a top international
provider of supply chain planning solutions for the world's foremost
companies, announces Dr. Winners exhibit a breadth of supply and demand chain knowledge and
experience and are chosen from thousands of entries.com .

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A point-and -click ODE (Ordinary Differential Equations)
Analyzer allows detailed and sophisticated investigation and
analysis of ODE systems. Currently, he is pursuing the application of strategic
network design models to solve issues associated with supply chain
vulnerability and hardening, and the marriage of network design with inventory
optimization and strategic transportation procurement tools.

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Outside of the US + Canada, Maple 10 is
available from Maplesoft reseller partners.
- Allows the end -users to enter their problems using their own words
to describe the situation - the system reads the natural language
queries. By automating the creation and maintenance of
a knowledge repository , Kaidara's technology increases overall customer
satisfaction, reducing the costs of collecting, retaining and reusing
knowledge within service infrastructures such as websites, call centers,
field service staff, interactive voice response units, email and other
contact points. The company's solutions are deployed at leading global
firms in the automotive, high technology, and manufacturing industries
including DaimlerChrysler, Cisco, NEC and National Semiconductor."
"Jeff is an innovative professional who has made tremendous contributions
to supply chain network design for the largest and most complex supply chains
in the world," said Bob Belshaw, COO of INSIGHT. Call INSIGHT at
(703) 366-3061.

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From complex computations to basic math concepts, Maple 10
opens the door to easier understanding and better productivity and
results for researchers, professors and students.

Create Maplets using the drag-and-drop interface of the Maplet
Builder or enhance worksheets with embedded GUI components. Maple 10 is
available directly from the Maplesoft Web Store at
http: //webstore. In addition, Maplesoft leads
the market with innovations that make the management of technical
knowledge - whether in industry, or in a classroom - more effective
and efficient. Over two million users at thousands of organizations
benefit from advanced Maple technology. today announced that
Darty, a leading retailer of household appliances and electronics in
Europe, has achieved a dramatic increase in efficiency among its call
center agents and field technicians through its deployment of the Kaidara
Advisor knowledge management system.
- Easy to integrate with other CRM tools and database systems.

INSIGHT's Jeff Karrenbauer Wins 2005 'Pro to Know' Award

(Jeff) Karrenbauer , president of INSIGHT,
has been given the prestigious "2005 Provider Pros to Know" award from Supply
+ Demand Chain Executive magazine. Jeff was recognized as a "Provider Pro," for bringing
exceptional information technology (IT) to supply chain design, specifically
SAILS(R) 21, INSIGHT's flagship supply chain planning solution software that
drives the success of many firms in the Fortune top 50.

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"For over two decades, Maplesoft has provided academic
institutions around the world with fundamental and critical technology
for research and teaching in technical fields," said Jim Cooper , CEO
of Maplesoft.maplesoft. Today we reached a 45% resolution rate and are
aiming to reach 70 % by the end of 2005.

About INSIGHT, Inc. Examples include crew scheduling,
production planning, design of global supply chains, transportation planning,
and inventory analysis within PowerChain(TM) Inventory from Optiant.

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Context sensitive menus provide only applicable operations
depending on the context, such as math operations, adjusting
plots, applying units , and changing palettes.

-- Compiled function option for dramatic speed increases in
numerical computation time.aspx

About Maplesoft

Maplesoft is a leading developer and provider of interactive
mathematical software.maplesoft. Douharin, Vice President of Customer
Service for Darty. Karrenbauer's expertise includes optimization and simulation models
for designing and analyzing the most complex supply chains of the world's
largest companies.

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This
greatly enhances speed and ease of use.
Components, such as sliders and buttons can be embedded within
Maple worksheets or deployed to the Web via MapleNet.

Deep Math

-- Enhanced code generation capability that ensures any math
model can automatically generate the user's choice of C,
Fortran, Java(TM), MATLAB(R) or Visual Basic(R) software code
for embedded applications.com . The Maplesoft commercial
customer base includes Boeing, Bosch, Canon and NASA. Kaidara Advisor is used to increase
first call problem resolution and provide easier and faster access to known
product repair problem/solution sets by Darty's wide-ranging service
department which handles over 4 million calls per year and no less than 1.

"Darty has built its name and reputation on its wide selection of products
and reliable after service support," stated Bob Tatemichi, Vice President
of Sales & Marketing North America for Kaidara.kaidara.
INSIGHT software and consulting provide optimization -based planning and
scheduling to solve the supply chain management issues of the world's foremost
companies.

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The students
then use Maple worksheets to make the calculations associated with
each lecture.

PRESS RELEASE Darty Reduces Operational Costs and Achieves Increased Customer Support Satisfaction With Kaidara(R)

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The product enables users to eliminate algebraic,
derivation and unit errors; expand the scope of research; and quickly
and easily validate results and derivations.

Ease of Use

A sophisticated Math Equation Editor lets users create
textbook-quality equations in natural mathematical notation,
interactively. "Over 95% of our customers have expressed their
satisfaction with our call center operations, and the Kaidara knowledge
management system is a key contributor to this success.
- Rich combination of search modes and capabilities that can guide
non-experts to the solution:
- The system provides a simple web interface for the customer to
enter their problems.

For more information, please contact:

Becky Boyd , MediaFirst PR - Atlanta
becky [at] mediafirst.

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By shifting the emphasis from
creating math to making it more accessible and easy to use, Maple 10
increases researchers' productivity, provides teachers a better
environment for developing customized curriculum and lowers the
learning curve for students.
In addition to being a premier research tool, Maple 10 enables
educators to deliver dynamic course content and illustrate even the
most difficult concepts. Volume, upgrade, and student discounts apply. Its suite of products includes Maple, the most
powerful and intuitive tool for solving complex mathematical problems
and creating rich, executable technical documents; MapleNet, a
Web -based platform for sharing Maple content for collaboration and
e-learning; and Maple T.A.3
million home repairs. We started with a 5% call
resolution rate at Level 1.

Kaidara Advisor, Kaidara Studio, and Kaidara Text2Data are
trademarks of Kaidara Software Corporation.com .

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It includes expression templates, a handwriting
palette, over a thousand mathematical symbols, and automatic
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Kaidara is a registered mark of Kaidara Software Corporation.

CEO Recognized for Rigorous, Innovative Strategic Supply Chain Design
Technology

MANASSAS, Va. Jeffrey J.
Increasingly, INSIGHT provides optimization components, partnering with third
party software providers to deliver best-of-breed solutions.