JULY 14, 1998
Brio Technology and Sand Technology Announce Product Line Integration -
Powerful Combination of Brio Enterprise and Nucleus Exploration to Benefit
Business Users
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA and MONTREAL, QUEBEC--Brio Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:
BRYO) and Sand Technology Systems International Inc. (Nasdaq: SNDCF) today
announced a joint marketing alliance and the integration of the Brio
Enterprise suite of business intelligence products with Sand's Nucleus
Exploration product suite. Available immediately, the combined products give
business users an easy and effective way to get answers to the most crucial
business questions.
With the new alliance, Brio and Sand will participate in joint marketing
programs targeted at corporations needing business intelligence solutions to
greatly enhance success in target marketing, customer relationship management,
risk and competitive analysis, and campaign management. Brio's powerful,
easy-to-use suite of query, analysis and reporting tools coupled with Sand's
revolutionary Nucleus Exploration product suite deliver a powerful capability
in answering unanticipated and very complex 'what if' or exploratory business
questions. Together, the integrated products provide the scalability,
performance, flexibility and ease-of-use needed by today's demanding business
users.
"Brio's outstanding technology, market position and customer base made them a
logical choice to align with in driving Nucleus' market dominance in the
Exploration Warehouse and Exploration Mart marketplaces," stated Kevin
Horigan, executive vice president, Sand Technology. "Combined, the Brio
products and Nucleus will set the standard for what is to come in the
Exploration market."
"Sand's focus on ensuring that customers see immediate business benefits
through the use of innovative technology mirrors Brio's commitment to enabling
ROI through products that customers genuinely like to use," added Chris
Grejtak, executive vice president of Brio Technology. "Together, the
integration of Brio Enterprise and Nucleus provides extremely powerful ad hoc
analytical capabilities to today's 'need-it-yesterday' decision- makers."
The products will be demonstrated in the Brio Technology booth at the DCI Data
Warehouse World conference held in New York City July 28-30. Bill Inmon, well-
known as the 'father of data warehousing', will be delivering a keynote speech
and discussing the benefits of the Exploration and Prototype Warehouse
concept.
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 four 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, California, and can be reached on the World Wide Web at
brio.com, or by calling 1.800.879.BRIO.
About Sand Technology
Sand Technology Systems International Inc. provides high performance,
scaleable software solutions for data mining, data marts, data warehouses and
online analytical processing (OLAP). Sand's Nucleus product suite brings
patented technology to the business user allowing for more timely and accurate
decision processing within the disconnected client, desktop, workgroup,
departmental and enterprise computing environments. Sand Technology can be
reached on the World Wide Web at sandtechnology.com.
All Rights Reserved. Nucleus, Nucleus Server, N-Vector are registered
trademarks and Nucleus Exploration Mart, Nucleus Exploration Warehouse are
trademarks of Sand Technology Systems. Brio Technology, BrioQuery,
BrioQuery.Server, Brio.Insight and Brio.Quickview are trademarks of Brio
Technology. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Sand Technology Systems International Inc. Kevin Horigan (410) 418-5426
kevinsandtechnology.com or Brio Technology Jennifer Braun (650) 845-3742
jbraunbrio.com
08:25 07-14-98
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