SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of May, 2000
GENTIA SOFTWARE PLC
Tuition House
St George's Road
Wimbledon
London SW19 4EU
United Kingdom
(Address of principal executive offices)
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under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused the Report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorised.
GENTIA SOFTWARE plc
By: /s/ Nicholas P.S. Bray
Nicholas P. S. Bray
Chief Financial Officer
Date: May 22, 2000
EXHIBIT A
Press Release Announcing Acquisition of ebi Solutions LLC
CONTACT:
AT THE FINANCIAL RELATIONS BOARD:
Andy Oliver For Analyst Info: Julie Creed (312) 640 6724
LEWIS P.R. For General Info: Kelly Lofts (212) 661-8030
IncTel: (619) 702-5571 For Media Info: Paul Del Colle (212) 661-8030
Email: andyo@lewispr.com
GENTIA SOFTWARE ACQUIRES EBI SOLUTIONS AND CREATES NEW SUBSIDIARY THINKANALYTICS
FOR THINKCRA-TM-
WEB TRAFFIC ANALYSIS APPLICATION (ebi OASIS) TO BE ADDED TO thinkCRA SUITE OF
INTELLIGENT PREDICTIVE APPLICATIONS FOR THE CRM MARKET
Boston, Mass. - April 26, 2000 - Gentia Software (Nasdaq: GNTI), a leading
provider of intelligent analytical applications for enterprise-wide deployment,
today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ebi
Solutions, LLC, a privately held provider of eBusiness applications and
services. In conjunction with the acquisition, Gentia has formed a new US-based
subsidiary, thinkAnalytics Corporation, to focus on the delivery of Customer
Relationship Analytic applications, including the recently announced product
suite, thinkCRA-TM-. Integration of thinkCRA and ebi's OASIS offers an advanced
solution set encompassing the ability to analyze both online and offline
commerce. The result is an intelligent and predictive solution that optimizes
the ability to understand, respond to and manage customer relationships.
"This acquisition brings to Gentia both a product that can be integrated into
our thinkCRA application suite and partnerships with Sales Logix, Informatica
and MicroStrategy," said Steve Fluin, Gentia's Chief Executive Officer. "A
significant benefit of this acquisition is that we also gain three very
experienced North-American-based executives and a group of specialist
consultants that will take key positions in our Company and help drive business
growth during 2000."
"Customer relationships are at the center of sales and marketing strategies but
few alternatives exist to conduct deep and predictive analysis," said Bob Moran,
Research Vice President, Aberdeen Group. "ThinkAnalytics Corporation with
thinkCRA has quickly catapulted itself into a leading industry role, allowing
organizations to truly analyze cross-channel customer dynamics."
The acquisition of ebi Solutions offers substantial benefits to Gentia's new
thinkAnalytics subsidiary by incorporating Web Traffic Analysis to its suite of
Intelligent Predictive Applications, enhancing its technical and consulting
skill set as well as the addition of a proven and experienced management team to
drive expansion in North American and Overseas markets. Ken Volet, Executive
Director of Operations at ebi, will assume the role of President and Chief
Operating Officer of Gentia's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Division.
Steve Toubin, Executive Director of Finance at ebi, will assume the role of
Chief Operating Officer of thinkAnalytics. Steve Huber, Executive Director of
Sales and Marketing at ebi, will assume the role of Vice President of North
American Operations for thinkAnalytics; and Henri Barenholz, who recently joined
the company from Vantive, will become Vice President of International Operations
for ThinkAnalytics Corporation.
"Customer Acquisition and Retention are among the highest priorities and a key
metric for every organization striving to be successful in today's marketplace,"
said Steve Huber, Executive Director of Sales and Marketing at ebi Solutions.
"Ebi's OASIS, coupled with thinkCRA, represents a unique value proposition
facilitating insight which is necessary to plan, value and act upon the
initiatives required to transform web-site visitors into customers."
"In addition to web site optimization, the predictive analysis techniques within
thinkCRA will provide organizations with valuable measures of both current and
future online and offline customer touch points," said Tim Jones, President and
Chief Technology Officer of thinkAnalytics. "Visitor Relationship Management
(VRM) is essential for the development of successful e-business strategy; and by
providing a complete understanding of all business development and customer
support activities, organizations can enhance customer service and gain
significant competitive advantages."
Kevin Bethke, SalesLogix Chief Sales Officer, said, "One reason so many
businesses purchase SalesLogix2000 is because it's so flexible. The ability of
ebi's OASIS to use the information in a SalesLogix database to create very
sophisticated views of a company's customer data offers evidence of that
flexibility. We're confident that the combination of OASIS with thinkCRA will
produce even better relationship management for the customers we have in common
and believe this merger will prove beneficial for all concerned."
"The integration of OASIS and thinkCRA will help provide a powerful and advanced
analytical view to CRM data," said Graham Burrows, Senior Vice President of
Research and Development at Informatica. "The value proposition is enhanced by
utilizing clean, pre-staged data from data-integration technology offered by
companies such as Informatica to allow rapid development and deployment of new
platform support. In addition, data-integration technology facilitates the
application of complex business rules inherent in CRM implementations."
As consideration for the acquisition of ebi Solutions, Gentia has agreed to
issue 400,000 shares of its common stock to the owners of ebi plus stock options
to specified individuals who will also be employed by Gentia.
ABOUT ebi OASIS
ebi OASIS is a powerful e-Business solution that delivers intelligent, targeted
information focused on customer online activities. The ebi OASIS application
suite is composed of several key components including efficient Web log data
transformation, a universal metadata layer insuring data integrity, a
predefined, modifiable set of report templates, rule driven exception reporting,
and automated report dissemination capability including email, phone, pager and
faxes. ebi OASIS allows intuitive analysis with open OLAP and data mining
facilities and supports advanced and industry standard grid analysis. Data can
be exported to Excel with the click of the mouse and includes support for
Workbook or "briefing book" style reporting to enhance use by remote and mobile
users.
ebi OASIS is a dynamic, scalable and open application suite developed to derive
value from utilization of a "Webhouse" that loads data into a data warehouse
modeled for supporting Web log data and OLAP. This concept allows users to
import, access and view information from systems such as CRM and syndicated
sources to maximize understanding of online and offline activities, optimizing
business development, customer service and relationship management.
ABOUT thinkCRA
thinkCRA provides an automated and intelligent customer information analysis
solution for both e-business and traditional business models. The suite delivers
total customer understanding through the integration and knowledge sharing of
customer segmentation, churn prediction, product value and affinity, and
marketing-initiative-results feedback.
The predictive intelligence of K.wiz-TM-, the distributed, scalable component
technology acquired by Gentia in 1998, is at the core of thinkCRA. K.wiz
delivers a new solution for data mining and knowledge discovery and includes the
patented database compression technology AIME (Array Indexed Minimum Entropy).
Gentia has long supported the concept of "write once, run anywhere"-TM- proposed
by Sun Microsystems; and as such, K.wiz is 100% Pure Java-TM- certified.
thinkCRA is an open application suite utilizing industry standards such as HTML,
XML, JDBC and CORBA. The suite is written entirely in Java and is the first
application to benefit from the robust integration platform provided by K.wiz,
an architecture that enables future applications to be easily incorporated.
K.wiz provides thinkCRA with an extensive range of technologies including neural
networks, decision trees, rule induction, association and clustering, as well as
components for data extraction, transformation, loading and validation. The open
data, CORBA-compliant extraction abilities of thinkCRA enable seamless
integration with major middleware and EAI products to obtain web log data,
market data, and disparate legacy data throughout an enterprise.
For further information on thinkCRA, send e-mail to thinkcra@thinkanalytics.com.
Gentia and thinkCRA are trademarks of Gentia Software plc.
K.wiz-TM- is a trademark of K.wiz Solutions Limited.
ebi Solutions and ebi OASIS are trademarks of ebi Solutions, LLC
Java, 100% Pure Java, "Write Once, Run Anywhere" are trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc
All other trademarks, trade names, or company names referenced herein are used
for identification purposes only and are the properties of their respective
owners.
ABOUT GENTIA SOFTWARE
Gentia Software (Nasdaq: GNTI) is a leading supplier of intelligent analytical
applications for enterprise performance management and customer relationship
management. Its product suites sustain and improve business performance by
improving the quality of customer interactions and driving strategy and
performance management. Gentia incorporates unique technology and the
world-class consulting expertise of partners including IBM, NCR, PWC and KPMG.
Gentia offers best-in-class solutions for Fortune 1,000 companies including
Volvo, Sprint, Bell Atlantic, Credit Suisse First Boston and Motorola. For more
information, visit www.gentia.com or call 1-888-4GENTIA (United States),
+44 (0)20 8971 4000 (Europe).