Odessa, Ukraine - September 17th, 2002 - CS Odessa, the leading publisher of cross platform productivity software and solutions on the Macintosh and Windows platforms, announced that the first school for creative thinkers has opened its doors in Odessa, Ukraine. The School offers a series of specialized workshops and advanced training on ConceptDraw Product family, office graphics solutions and visual thinking techniques. It may seem unusual that the first corporate training was delivered to the employees from all the departments of CS Odessa. The School opening has already become one of the most exciting company's events of the year standing in one row with ConceptDraw World Conference held in Odessa this spring.

Being one of the fastest growing IT companies CS Odessa focuses on innovative graphics and presentation developments and evangelizes visual thinking techniques. The newly opened workshops are aimed to support these developments inside the company and offer professional and corporate users an efficient training in how to use ConceptDraw Products for visual thinking and office graphics creation and management.

"Whatever event is taking place in Odessa it always has a special spirit of innovation, team play and making our dreams come true - the spirit, which has grown and matured in our company during the years of its development. We see the promise of CS Odessa success in passing our spirit and knowledge over to the new generation of employees who are just on board with CS Odessa. Realizing our dream to make The School an international event we invite everybody who is keen on ConceptDraw products and the ideas we promote to join us in Odessa during the next ConceptDraw World Spring Conference for the open sessions of CS Odessa School, where you will be able to experience our company lifestyle yourself!" - said Gregory Zhukov, the President of CS Odessa.

"The training we passed brought everybody a happy "back to school days" feeling, as if you were back at your first lessons, when you were excited to learn new things. It's a cool and unusual feeling for serious grown-ups," - said the PR manager Irina Nazarova.

Following its mandate to offer excellent service to corporate customers and users CS Odessa plans to deliver these workshops to organizations and individual customers.