Brio Technology Strengthens Business Intelligence Suite to Respond To Changing Market
Brio.Enterprise's Expanded Functionality Addresses International Demand Adding Korean and Chinese Language Support
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Brio Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: BRIO - news), a leading provider of business intelligence and analytic solutions for the Fortune 1000, today announced the immediate availability of its updated version of Brio.Enterprise, Brio's comprehensive business intelligence suite. This latest release, version 6.2.3, responds to changing customers' needs with greater functionality, improves integration with leading technology vendors, and adds language support for Korean and traditional Chinese. This new product reinforces Brio's commitment to providing world-class enterprise software solutions to the global business community.
``This latest version of Brio Enterprise builds on top of Brio's strong offering and delivers immediate value to both the IT and end user community,'' stated Lou Chern, technology architect at Idea Integration, an e-business integration solutions provider serving Fortune 1000 companies and middle-market clients. ``Today, customers are demanding more from their technology solutions and Brio has responded with this latest product offering. Specifically, customers have been impressed with the new business features that address current and future information needs.''
With its latest offering, Brio.Enterprise addresses the need for worldwide implementations of business intelligence solutions and offers increased product capabilities by focusing on areas such as database certifications, integration with partners, enhancements to the user interface, and extensions to the object model. By supporting Korean and traditional Chinese, the expanded version provides users with the capacity to address regional needs, deploy solutions, train users in less time, and enjoy Brio's ease of use without the need for translation. The expansion of the Brio solution provides users with even more power and flexibility for creating analytic applications. Some of the additions to the object model include: control of limit line operators, access to query options, and various chart and pivot methods and properties.
``This latest version of Brio's business intelligence solution has a number of unique features that enable business users to derive greater business benefits, faster,'' stated Jim Guthrie, executive vice president, development at Brio Technology. ``Our development team did an outstanding job of ensuring that our product continues to be leading edge and meets the requirements of today's changing marketplace. Brio's customers will benefit greatly from the expanded capabilities, resulting in faster and better decisions by the individual users.''
Brio.Enterprise's latest version also includes tighter integration and support of Informatica's MX2 application protocol interface (API) and SAP BW, which allows joint customers the ability to view clear business descriptions of stored data, as well as the option to see who last updated the information, and the date in which the update occurred. Additionally, Brio customers now have the ability to further leverage the functionality and power of each data source as Brio has expanded Brio.Enterprise's certification for today's leading suppliers. Brio.Enterprise improves scalability with incorporation of native support for HPUX 11, as well as reinstated support of Sun Solaris 2.6, and continued support of Sun Solaris 7 and Solaris 8. Moreover, Brio.Enterprise is certified for Sybase System 12, IBM DB2 (Version 6 & 7), SAP BW 2.0, Hyperion Essbase 6.0, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft (OLAP) Analysis Services.
The 10 major languages that Brio.Enterprise supports include Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, French and English. |
