The privately-held Toronto-based company says it has already signed up 15 new

partners in 2004. New distribution partners include Rinpak (China), Suprawin

Technologies Ltd (India), and Magix (South Africa).

Market research firm IDC expects the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) BI market to

grow 12% this year.

Panorama’s namesake 4.0 BI product is designed to exploit Microsoft Corp’s SQL

Server BI platform.