Sagent Delivers the First Integrated Data Mart Solution with Microsoft BackOffice Server 2.0; Sagent's Data Mart Solution Receives the Designed for BackOffice Logo

Business Wire, August 5, 1996

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1996--Sagent Technology, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation today announced that Sagent has received the Designed for BackOffice logo for its Windows NT-based Data Mart Solution.

Sagent is the first software vendor in the Data Mart category to provide an integrated data mart Solution for data mart population, staging of data and delivery of meaningful, business-appropriate information to end-users.

"With Microsoft BackOffice integration, we are able to provide our customers with a multipurpose data access system, that scales from the workgroup to the enterprise and has built-in native Internet support," said Ken Gardner, President and CEO of Sagent Technology. "This integration provides enhanced performance, easy administration and fits with existing customer environments."

"Recognizing the demand for robust software server products for Windows NT, we have delivered Microsoft BackOffice, a complete set of best-of-breed integrated server software products, which include everything our customers will need for enterprise applications, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 and the Internet Information Server," said Rich Tong, Vice President, Marketing and Training, Desktop and Business Systems Division at Microsoft Corp. "It is great to see companies like Sagent embracing this technology to provide fully integrated systems that address the customer's unique business needs."

The key benefits of BackOffice are surfaced in the Sagent Data Mart Solution through:

Architected for Windows NT

Sagent delivers the true power of multi-threading to customers

through Microsoft Windows NT. This capability provides faster

performance and integration with a customer's existing computing

environment.

Microsoft SQL Server

Native connectivity to Microsoft's SQL Server 6.5 provides

enhanced performance and functionality for large internet Web

databases.

Integration with SMS

Integration with Microsoft's System Management Server (SMS)

provides installation and administration tools to manage Sagent

Data Marts from one central location.

Support for Internet Information Server

Internet functionality provides user access to information

contained in the Sagent Data Mart via the Internet and Intranets.

This allows users to execute and display information from Sagent

through a web browser, on any operating system.

About Data Marts

Data marts bring the data warehousing concept to small and medium-sized businesses, as well as departments within larger companies. Rather than storing all enterprise data in one monolithic database, data marts contain a subset of the data for a single aspect of a company's business -- for example, finance, inventory, or personnel. According to the 1996 Forrester Research report Raising the Corporate IQ, approximately half of the data warehousing/data mart projects that Corporate IT departments are working on are applications-focused data marts.

About Sagent

Sagent is a privately-owned company based in Menlo Park, Calif. It was co-founded in June, 1995 by Ken Gardner and John Zicker, both formerly with ReportSmith, Inc. The company's marketing efforts are headed by Perry Mizota, formerly vice president of marketing at Business Objects, Inc. Sagent is building an integrated data mart solution that leverages a variety of Microsoft technologies, including Windows NT, Microsoft BackOffice, Office and Visual Basic for Applications 5.0. -0-

Sagent and Information Studio are trademarks of Sagent Technology, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

CONTACT: Sagent Technology, Inc.

Gillian Webster, 415/833-6817

gwebster@sagenttech.com

or

Evans Communications

Lori Evans, 415/595-8776

evanscom@aol.com