Holistic Systems supports Sybase IQ; Holos business intelligence software optimizes power of new database engine designed for interactive analysis

Business Wire, March 26, 1996

EDISON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 1996--Holistic Systems, a leading international supplier of business intelligence software, today announced that its Holos(tm) business intelligence software product supports Sybase IQ(tm), the new data warehouse server from Sybase that has been specifically engineered to allow interactive analysis. Holos for Sybase IQ is available now.

Holos is an OLAP compliant, integrated system encompassing facilities for enterprise scale executive information, decision support, and business intelligence applications. Holos is in use at over 900 customer sites worldwide. The new Sybase IQ data warehouse server is optimized to run on existing hardware without constant tuning, providing more cost-effective, flexible data warehousing solutions. Holistic Systems and Sybase are partners in Sybase's Warehouse WORKS Alliance Program, which is the industry's largest data warehouse alliance.

"Sybase IQ extends the range and flexibility of Holos business intelligence applications by providing significantly faster retrieval for planned and ad hoc queries," stated Robin Cottiss, Vice President of Technology for Holistic Systems. "Faster retrieval means that more data can be analyzed, reported, and shared. This is the real objective of the data warehouse."

Cottiss continued, "By integrating Holos and Sybase IQ, we anticipate that new classes of business intelligence applications will emerge. This will happen not only because of the faster retrieval times, but because the design and implementation of data warehouses for enterprise business intelligence will be simplified by the introduction of Sybase IQ and the ability of Holos to leverage all the benefits that Sybase IQ provides."

"Our partnership with Holistic Systems offers an example of the best type of synergy," said Bruce Armstrong, Sybase vice president of server products. "Together, Holos and Sybase IQ bring our customers not only speed in end-user queries but a faster, easier development process, providing long-term flexibility and cost-effectiveness."

Sybase, Inc. is a worldwide leader in client/server software. Sybase is focused on four major market segments: on-line transaction processing, data warehousing, mass deployment and electronic commerce. Sybase's software products - database, middleware and tools - provide customers with desktop-to-enterprise solutions. The company's mission is to provide its customers with an open, adaptable information systems architecture that enables them to develop and deliver complete information systems solutions to facilitate rapid business change. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase is the sixth largest independent software company in the world. The company's Internet addresses are www.sybase.com and www.powersoft.com.

Holistic Systems is a privately held, international company. Founded in 1987, the company's headquarters are in London, and its North American subsidiary, Holistic Systems, Inc., is based in Edison, N.J. Other subsidiaries are located in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Holos, its business intelligence software product, is available for most major UNIX, NT and VMS hardware platforms and can be accessed through Windows, Windows NT and Macintosh clients. Information about the company, its product and services, and the OLAP market is available at Holistic's Web site (http://www.holossys.com).

Holistic Systems is a member of the OLAP Council, an industry association created to foster greater understanding of on-line analytical processing (OLAP), a technology specifically designed for fast, flexible analysis of business intelligence data. -0-

Holos is a trademark of Holistic Systems, Inc. Sybase, Sybase IQ and Sybase Warehouse WORKS are trademarks of Sybase, Inc.

CONTACT: Judith Vanderkay or Stacy Karp Mosher,

Rogers Communications, (617) 224-1100

jvanderkay@rogerscom.com or smosher@rogerscom.com

or Elvin Monteleone, Holistic Systems, (703) 749-0555

or Mary Shank-Rockman, Sybase, Inc., (510) 922-4165