Brio Technology Announces Newest Business Intelligence Products for Japan.

PALO ALTO, Calif. and TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1998--

Brio Releases Japanese Language Version 5.5J;

Appoints Director of Asia Pacific Operations to Oversee Expansion

Brio Technology (NASDAQ:BRYO), a U.S. corporation, today announced Brio Enterprise (5.5 J), the Japanese language version of Brio's enterprise business intelligence product suite.

With enhanced Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) support and 100% interoperability between four languages on ten platforms, Brio provides an optimal solution for global corporations implementing enterprise-wide business intelligence.

"Japan is one of the largest markets for business intelligence today, and is extremely important to Brio's success as a global provider of enterprise business intelligence," said Yorgen Edholm, President and CEO of Brio Technology. "At Brio, we are committed to providing our Japanese customers the best business intelligence tools available worldwide. Making the latest version of our entire product line available to the Japanese market is an important step in Brio's growing investment in the Asia Pacific region."

With this release, customers and partners worldwide have access to the same version (Brio Enterprise 5.5) of Brio's award winning business intelligence products, regardless of language or platform. Designed with full DBCS architecture, Brio Enterprise (5.5 J) will reduce maintenance and support issues for customers. In addition, Brio's DBCS architecture will allow quick release of future Japanese-language versions.

Brio Enterprise (5.5 J) is currently in beta tests with customers throughout Japan. In September, Brio's master reseller, Canon, will bring the Brio Enterprise suite of products to the Japanese market.

"We are very pleased with the opportunity to bring the latest release of Brio Enterprise to the Japanese market," said Mr. Yasuyuki Itoh, Senior Director of Product Planning for Brio at Canon. "Brio is the premier provider of enterprise business intelligence tools, and we believe these products will receive a very warm welcome in the Japanese marketplace."

Commitment to Asia/Pacific Market

As part of Brio's increasing investment in the rapidly expanding Japanese marketplace, Brio also announced the appointment of Mr. Cees Van Heemert who brings extensive previous experience to his position as Managing Director of Brio Asia Pacific. Van Heemert will manage Brio's partnership with Canon and other Japanese partners, in addition to overseeing Brio's aggressive involvement throughout the region.

Brio Enterprise (5.5 J) is a complete, fully-integrated business intelligence solution that provides powerful query, analysis and reporting functionality across both client/server and Web environments. Meeting the needs of all users across the enterprise, the Brio Enterprise solution-comprised of the Brio Enterprise OnDemand Web application server, the Brio Enterprise Broadcast server, and wide ranging but fully integrated Web and client/server end user tools-balances the complex demands of power users with the simple needs of novice report viewers.

Specific to the Japanese language version, Brio has engineered significant enhancements and implemented additional support, including: -0-

--   A new international version os Brio Enterprise OnDemand Server,
     as well as all the features introduced with the release of Brio
     Enterprise 5.5 (http://www.brio.com/press/1110.ser.html);

--   Locale-specific translation setting to customize language support
     per region;

--   Added support for code page conversion between Brio-supported OS
     platforms; and

--   Improved date and currency formatting.

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Brio Enterprise (5.5 J) will be demonstrated at the Japan DataWarehouse Expo'98 at Tokyo Big Sight  from July 8-10. It will also be featured at Canon Sales booth (booth NO. 7-6) and other selected partners' booths.

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 English, French, Italian and Japanese 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, Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom, and worldwide including Japan 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 http://www.brio.com, or by calling 1.800.879.BRIO.

Brio Technology, BrioQuery, BrioQuery.Server, Brio.Insight and Brio.Quickview are trademarks of Brio Technology. Other trademarks used throughout this document are trademarks of their respective holders.

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