Brio and SQRIBE Announce Worldwide Strategic Partnership; Market Leaders in Business Intelligence and Enterprise Information Delivery Form Alliance to Help Companies Speed Business Decision-Making

Business Wire, Sept 22, 1997

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1997--SQRIBE Technologies, the leading provider of enterprise information delivery and reporting software, and Brio Technology, the enterprise business intelligence company, today announced a strategic marketing and engineering relationship to enhance both companies' enterprise information access and delivery capabilities.

The companies have joined each other's strategic alliance program designed to develop and drive the delivery of data warehouse solutions and ensure customer success.

Brio and SQRIBE plan to integrate the Brio Enterprise product family with SQRIBE's recently introduced ReportMart, an enterprise information-gathering, delivery and distribution solution to provide end-users with easier access to business information, via the World Wide Web and corporate intranets. SQRIBE will also enable SQR, the leading production reporting solution to seamlessly transfer data to Brio's enterprise business intelligence products.

ReportMart, in conjunction with Brio's products, will enable organizations to speed decision-making at all levels and dramatically reduce enterprise integration and maintenance costs at the same time. ReportMart works with any enterprise information system, and therefore leverages existing investments in data warehouses, business intelligence tools and corporate intranets.

"The combination of our companies' technologies helps end-users in an organization more easily and effectively identify, obtain and share the mission-critical information they need to make fast, smart decisions," said Jannell Wei, director of channel and partner marketing at Brio Technology. "SQRIBE's open architecture and Brio's expertise in flexible business intelligence solutions will raise the bar for enterprise information delivery and access."

"Brio's OLAP expertise and SQRIBE's information delivery capabilities are extremely compatible," said Jack Norris, vice president of marketing at SQRIBE. "ReportMart provides a way to integrate these capabilities easily, securely and efficiently."

The integration of the two product families will be demonstrated at Oracle Open World, which is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Sept. 23-25. Visit SQRIBE's Booth No. 942 and Brio's Booth No. 1407.

ReportMart, a 100% Pure Java application, provides end-users open and easy access to all enterprise reports and information regardless of file type or technology platform, from custom data formats to applications, graphics and video.

Brio's enterprise product family is the industry's first all-in-one desktop decision support solution with cross-platform integrated query, multi-dimensional analysis, interactive charting and compound-document reporting capabilities.

About Brio Technology, Inc.

Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Brio Technology provides leading edge business intelligence solutions for organizations worldwide. The Brio Enterprise product family provides a balanced, comprehensive solution that uniquely and affordably delivers data warehouse information throughout the enterprise and beyond. By combining the power of distributed client/server architecture with the flexibility of Web-enabled information delivery, Brio Enterprise products provide a complete solution for delivering business intelligence throughout the enterprise.

Brio's products, available in four languages and on seven platforms, are sold directly in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia and through a global network of distributors, systems, integrators and VARs. Brio has strong technical partnerships with the leading suppliers of data warehouse solutions, databases, high-performance hardware, and web technology. Brio Technology is a privately held, venture-based corporation with more than 4,000 customers in over 19 countries. Brio can be reached by visiting its World Wide Web site at http://www.brio.com, or by calling 650/856-8000, or faxing 650/856-8020.

About SQRIBE Technologies

SQRIBE provides enterprise software designed to speed corporate decision-making. It provides a family of products that enable intranet-based access for all reports and information, and includes tools for scalable, cross-platform information publishing of all enterprise production and warehouse data.

SQRIBE works with more than 50% of the Fortune 500 and over 7,500 organizations worldwide, including leading companies like AT&T, BASF, Boeing, Chevron, Chrysler, Merrill Lynch and the Gap. Leading commercial application developers also integrate SQRIBE technology into their applications.

The company can be reached at SQRIBE Technologies, 1080 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025. Information about SQRIBE and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at www.sqribe.com . -0-

Note to Editors: SQRIBE Technologies, the SQRIBE logo, ReportMart, WebSQRIBE, and SQR are registered trademarks or trademarks of SQRIBE Technologies. Brio Technology, BrioQuery, BrioQuery.Server, Brio.Insight and Brio.Quickview are registered trademarks or trademarks of Brio Technology. Other trademarks used throughout this document are trademarks of their respective holders.