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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (32757)	1/5/1999 9:57:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

MyEureka! Awarded Highest Rating on Crossroads A-List for Fourth Consecutive Year EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999-- 'AA' Rating Recognizes Proven Enterprise Deployments of Its MyEureka! for Data Warehousing Solution by Information Advantage Customers Information Advantage Inc. (Nasdaq: IACO), a leading provider of Web-based Business Intelligence software, today announced that its MyEureka!(TM) for Data Warehousing solution (formerly DecisionSuite and WebOLAP) has been selected by Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA) for inclusion on its prestigious Crossroads A-List. This is the fourth consecutive year that Information Advantage has earned a 'AA' rating, the highest bestowed by OSA, and reserved for companies whose customers clearly demonstrate the software's ability to deploy enterprise-wide production use today at large organizations, including Fortune 1000. "Once again, Information Advantage has provided us with top-of-the-class reference accounts," commented Nina Lytton, president of Open Systems Advisors. "Whether it is widespread Web distribution of business intelligence, high performance analysis of terabyte-sized data warehouses, or enterprise empowerment of knowledge workers with information - Information Advantage's business intelligence solution has conquered each of these challenges. OSA is pleased to grant Information Advantage a 'AA' rating for the fourth continuous year." "Each year OSA thoroughly investigates our software's scalability, business value and Web capabilities. For the fourth year, OSA has determined that we are surpassing our competition in these areas," said Larry Ford, president and CEO of Information Advantage. "Since the customer interviews for this award, Information Advantage has launched MyEureka!, the first business intelligence portal, and approximately doubled the company's size reaffirming our position as a leader in this market." In addition to this latest award, Information Advantage and MyEureka! have been recognized with several other top industry awards and honors this year: -- Crossroads A List 'AA' Rating -- DCI / META Group Excellence in Business Information Award -- Data Warehouse Institute's Best Practices Award -- Intelligent Enterprise's RealWare Award -- Intelligent Enterprise's 12 Most Influential Companies in IT -- Minnesota Technology Fast 50 -- Deloitte and Touche Top 500 OSA will formally recognize Information Advantage and several of its customers at the Crossroads 99 Conference in March. About Open Systems Advisors Founded in 1989, Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA) provides a real-world perspective on using new technology in business. OSA's research is based on an ongoing and in-depth dialogue with hundreds of seasoned IT executives and business leaders who are using emerging technologies to achieve business results. OSA reports the Crossroads Decisions, awards the Crossroads A-List and produces the Crossroads Conference. About Information Advantage Information Advantage Inc. is a leading provider of Business Intelligence solutions that are designed to accelerate and improve the decision making of all knowledge workers. MyEureka! is the first Web portal for Business Intelligence to apply the same visualization, navigation, agent, delivery and search principles popularized by consumer Internet portals, such as Yahoo! and AOL, to secure corporate Business Intelligence information. The company has the most comprehensive Business Intelligence suite of products in the marketplace, providing an integrated solution for six key technologies, including Web portals, an active content server, query, reporting, distributed OLAP and relational OLAP. For more information, contact Information Advantage at 612/833-3700. DecisionSuite, DecisionSuite Server, DecisionSuite Eureka!, MyEureka!, Eureka!Server, Eureka!Workbench, and WebOLAP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Information Advantage, Inc. Crossroads is a registered trademark and Crossroads A-List is a trademark of Open Systems Advisors, Inc. Other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. CONTACT: Kay Rindels Rebecca Fuller Information Advantage Blanc & Otus 612.833.3923 415.512.0500 kay.rindels@infoadvan.com rfuller@bando.com