BRIO Technology Sponsors Insight `99.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1999--

User Conference Attracts Keynote Speakers

Geoffrey Moore, Bill Inmon and Michael Stonebreaker --

Noted Visionaries and Industry Experts

to Join Hundreds of Brio Customers at Annual Conference

Brio Technology (Nasdaq:BRYO) today announced its annual user conference, Insight '99, to be held Jan. 24-27, 1999 in San Diego.

The four-day conference will draw Brio customers and partners from around the world, along with industry experts and leading vendors to discuss the organizational impact of business intelligence in the 21st century.

"Without a doubt, the people who use Brio to do their jobs -- regardless of company, industry or geographic location -- are some of the most successful and articulate business intelligence users in the world," said Yorgen Edholm, president and CEO of Brio Technology.

"Our users have been asking for a forum like Insight '99 where they can further their knowledge about Brio and business intelligence, share best practices with their peers, get a sneak peek at our new products and hear from the industry's visionaries."

Katherine Glassey, Brio's executive vice president of products and services and chief technology officer, added, "For Brio, it's a great opportunity to learn from our users. It's this clear understanding of our customers' current and future needs that enables Brio to continue developing the business intelligence products that best meet their needs."

Insight '99 will bring together the leading practitioners of business intelligence and data warehousing in a forum where they can share information on how to implement best practices and maximize the ROI from their decision support applications.

Highlighting an agenda with over 45 sessions in five tracks are customer and partner implementation presentations from companies such as Avis, Micron Electronics, the University of Maryland, Santee Cooper, Tokai Financial and others. In addition to deployment and technical sessions being conducted by business intelligence experts sharing, Insight '99 attendees will also hear from:

-- Geoffrey Moore, noted visionary and author of Crossing the Chasm,

Inside the Tornado and The Gorilla Game;

-- Bill Inmon, universally recognized as the "father of data

warehousing" and author of 36 books translated into nine

languages;

-- Michael Stonebreaker, industry guru and chief technology officer

(CTO) of Informix; and

-- Brio's own co-founder and CTO Katherine Glassey, co-developer of

the star schema design and driving force behind Brio's award

winning business intelligence suite.

In addition, Brio partners Actuate, Ardent, Broadbase, IBM, Microsoft, Sun, Sysix and many others will participate in Insight '99, providing product and integration information to attendees.

For complete conference agenda and registration information, please visit http://www.brio.com/insight99.

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 10 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, and can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.brio.com, or by calling 800/879-BRIO.