Brio Technology Announces Support for SAP's Business Information Warehouse

Business Wire, Nov 6, 1998

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 1998--Brio Technology (Nasdaq:BRYO), the enterprise business intelligence company, today announced its commitment to deliver native support for SAP's Business Information Warehouse(BW).

The Brio Enterprise suite of business intelligence products -- which already includes support for OLE DB for OLAP -- will be optimized for the SAP BW application programming interface (API).

Articulating the company's vision for helping customers turn corporate data into business intelligence, Brio President and CEO Yorgen Edholm said, "We've been working for some time with customers of SAP and other ERP vendors to create business intelligence solutions that truly meet their needs. With support for SAP BW, thousands of world-class companies which run their businesses with SAP R/3 can rely on Brio Enterprise to provide fast, easy access to critical corporate data."

"Brio is today delivering business intelligence from data warehouses built with SAP R/3 data for global corporations like Hewlett-Packard and Motorola, so we understand the importance of adding native support for the SAP BW API," added Chris Grejtak, executive vice president for marketing at Brio Technology.

"We've already done a significant amount of work with OLE DB for OLAP and will be able to leverage that investment as SAP makes the SAP BW API generally available. Our intent is to provide optimized support for BW early in 1999."

The Business Information Warehouse is an end-to-end data warehouse solution developed by SAP which gives knowledge workers rapid access to data from SAP systems, other enterprise applications and from external sources such as content providers. Brio's technical integration with SAP BW -- using Microsoft's OLE DB for OLAP extensions -- will enable organizations to use Brio's enterprise business intelligence products for query, analysis and reporting against SAP BW.

Already a leader in providing solutions which leverage data access standards, Brio offered the first commercially available integration with OLE DB for OLAP for business intelligence products (http://www.brio.com/press/0428.ole_db.html).

About Brio Technology

Brio Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRYO) is a leading provider of enterprise business intelligence software. Brio develops, markets and supports software products that improve the ability of business professionals to make timely, fact-based business decisions. Available in five languages on ten platforms, the Brio Enterprise suite of products is used by businesses in more than 20 countries.

Brio products are available through direct sales and services organizations located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia, and worldwide through VARs, resellers and distributors. Brio has commercial relationships with Access Graphics, Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Netscape (Nasdaq:NSCP), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW).

Brio Technology is based in Palo Alto, Calif., and can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.brio.com, or by calling 800/879-BRIO.

The matters contained in this news release that are not purely historical are "forward looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including, without limitation, any statements included herein regarding Brio's future product development and commercialization, product sales and other revenues, market opportunities, beliefs, expectations, goals, financial performance and future strategies, all of which are dependent on certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these or any other forward looking statements made by or on behalf of Brio. These risks and uncertainties include such factors, among others, as the potential for fluctuations in Brio's quarterly operating results, Brio's dependence upon its direct sales force, Brio's ability to attract and retain qualified personnel, Brio's lengthy product sales cycle and the other risk factors listed in the company's Prospectus dated April 30, 1998, its Annual Report of Form 10-K and in other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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