Brio Technology and Oracle team to deliver comprehensive data warehousing solutions based on BrioQuery and Oracle7; Brio joins Oracle's Warehouse Technology Initiative with unique multidimensional front-end query tools to support mutual customers

Business Wire, June 22, 1995

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1995--Brio Technology Inc., a leader in data access and analysis solutions for the data warehouse market, Thursday announced it has joined Oracle's Warehouse Technology Initiative (WTI) as a key front-end tools vendor, further expanding the existing joint marketing, sales and development relationship between the two companies.

As part of today's announcement, the need for such joint technology is underscored by existing customers such as Home Box Office (HBO), whose company has benefited from using BrioQuery and Oracle7 as key components of its organization's data warehouse.

"Our customers recognize the need for data warehouse solutions beyond single product offerings," said Yorgen Edholm, president and chief executive officer of Brio Technology. "BrioQuery's interactive desktop engine provides an ideal architecture to combine with Oracle7 to give users all the benefits of multidimensional analysis at their desktops."

Brio's flagship product, BrioQuery now provides data access and desktop multidimensional analysis to the Oracle7 repository. Brio joins the Oracle WTI with more than 30 other Oracle Business Alliance Partners to offer organizations comprehensive, integrated data warehouse solutions that combine complementary products to design, build, analyze and manage Oracle7 data warehouses.

Home Box Office leverages Brio and Oracle Technology combination

HBO, a subsidiary of Time-Warner and one of North America's largest cable television providers, is a joint customer of Brio and Oracle. The organization is presently rewriting its existing catalog of standard and customized queries in BrioQuery to support HBO's sales and marketing division. HBO currently has 250 users accessing the sales and marketing database. Future plans call for the inclusion of finance and HR applications comprising an additional 250 users. HBO is running Brio's products on RISC machines on an AIX platform with an Oracle7 database as the data repository.

Sharyn McClosky, director of sales and marketing systems in HBO's information technology division and a 28-year data processing veteran, said, "It was easy to design BrioQuery so that it worked well with our Oracle7 data warehouse because the product is very user-friendly and easily customized according to our individual needs. BrioQuery enables our users - even non-technical ones - to `slice-and-dice' data in many ways that are valuable to all levels of sales and marketing."

About BrioQuery

BrioQuery is available in three configurations: Designer, Navigator and Explorer. Each one is configured to access a wide variety of databases including native support for Oracle, Sybase, Red Brick Warehouse and Microsoft SQL Server and provides access to more than 50 other databases via SequeLink, EDA/SQL, DAL and ODBC.

About Brio Technology Inc.

Based in Mountain View, Calif., Brio Technology Inc. is a leading supplier of desktop data access and analysis software for the data warehouse segment of the decision support market. Brio's products and services are sold directly and through 20 distributors, systems integrators, and VAR's worldwide. Sales offices are located in Mountain View, Indianapolis, Boston, Cincinnati, and the United Kingdom. Brio is a privately held, venture-backed corporation whose investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Novus Ventures. -0-

Note to Editors: Brio is a registered trademark and BrioQuery is a trademark of Brio Technology Inc. All other trademarks are acknowledged.

CONTACT: Brio Technology Inc.

Katherine Glassey-Edholm, 415/961-4110

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Bonnie Snow, 415/579-6400