Santa Clara, CA - October 30, 2003 - SigmaQuest, Inc., a leader in Product Performance Intelligence, today announced immediate availability of SigmaSure 3.0, their most powerful test analysis solution to date for global enterprises. Combining robust data management with advanced analytics, SigmaSure 3.0 delivers unsurpassed speed and flexibility for collecting and analyzing test and quality data in distributed environments.

The new version of SigmaSure is 450% faster than previous versions and is designed to give managers and engineers greater control of test processes in global environments while supporting terabytes of test data. SigmaSure 3.0 expands SigmaProbe - an application program interface (API) – to not only extract global test data in highly structured but flexible XML format but also push controller software such as the latest revision of a test program and specifications to a remoter tester.

“Global organizations are faced with the daunting challenge of trying to manage terabytes of test data scattered across multiple design, manufacturing and service centers created by the decentralization of the electronics industry,” said Nader Fathi, CEO of SigmaQuest, Inc. “The situation is getting worse as OEMs outsource more functionality to remote organizations. SigmaSure 3.0 enables these teams to share product performance knowledge and manage their test and infrastructure seamlessly across remote sites and geographies. Customers benefit by increasing their overall efficiency and quality during the entire product lifecycle.”

SigmaSure 3.0 introduces new features in a single, off-the-shelf solution:

Revision Control and Rollback - SigmaProbe 3.0 is now bi-directional and supports revision control, including rollback, of tester software and product specifications. Users can now remotely control the factory test floor from virtually anywhere. Integration with latest Oracle Database Platform - The integration of SigmaSure 3.0 with Oracle continues SigmaQuest’s commitment to provide a powerful database - optimized to support terabytes of data - while hiding the complexity of designing and managing the database. Using SigmaSure 3.0 with Oracle, an engineer can easily collect and manage hundreds of gigabytes of test data from globally distributed locations. This tight integration increases test data management effectiveness, efficiency, and flexibility for enterprise customers. Auto Reconfiguration of Database – SigmaSure 3.0 introduces auto reconfiguration to dynamically update the database – without intervention by a database administrator – when a diagnostic is modified to collect new parameters. Since tests change throughout production, this feature allows organizations to easily update their tests without compromising or delaying their data collection and analysis. Expanded Monitoring, Reporting and Advanced Analytics - Based on many years of hands-on experience at OEM and EMS sites, SigmaSure 3.0 introduces real-time, web-architected monitoring, reporting and advanced analytic capabilities that have not been commercially available for diagnostics until now: Multidimensional Analysis is available for diagnostics for the first time to speed failure analysis. An engineer can drill-down on a Pareto to examine the underlying data via a subsequent Pareto, scatter diagram, or histogram. This allows users to isolate a problem in minutes versus days. Enhanced Failure Isolation pinpoints whether the unit under test, the fixture, or the test station is failing. This capability is easily incorporated into an early warning system that notifies the "right" person or persons when a potential problem is detected by SigmaSure's automated monitoring. This feature allows global teams to work in parallel, expediting the production cycle and decreasing costs. Availability SigmaSure 3.0 is immediately available and includes SigmaProbe, SigmaConnect, SigmaAnalysis and SigmaSPC. SigmaSure 3. 0 supports any SQL database and is platform independent (Windows, Linux and Solaris). It can be used to target any tester, anywhere and all the time.

About SigmaQuest SigmaQuest, a leader in Product Performance Intelligence, is the first to enable global visibility to test and quality data for electronic systems manufacturing. The company's revolutionary "any-data, any-tester, anywhere" technology supports automated test and quality data management and analysis across multiple geographies, test equipment suppliers, and extended supply chain members. Original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers achieve lower materials costs, lower manufacturing and support costs, and faster time to revenue.