Brio Technology Introduces the Brio Enterprise Server.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1997-- Offers the First Enterprise Query, Reporting, and Analysis Product Line to Deliver No-compromise, Full-featured Business Intelligence for Web, Client/Server and Mobile Users Brio Technology Brio Technology was a San Francisco Bay area software company cofounded in 1984 by Yorgen Edholm and Katherine Glassey. It made money early on by doing contract work for Metaphor Corporation and performing contract programming. today introduced the newest member of the Brio (Brio Technology, Palo Alto, CA, www.brio.com) A software company founded in 1989 and acquired by Hyperion Solutions Corporation in 2003 that specialized in enterprise analysis and reporting programs that run on several platforms. Enterprise product family, the Brio Enterprise Server. This new, scalable server suite offers comprehensive "push" and "pull" technologies to allow organizations to cost effectively deploy powerful business intelligence solutions to the widest array of user types, across mixed computing environments. Brio also introduced release 5.5 of its Brio Enterprise products. Together, they represent the first enterprise query, reporting, and analysis product line to deliver no-compromise, full-featured business intelligence for Web, client/server and mobile users. The Brio Enterprise Server suite is comprised of two powerful servers and a unified administration tool. The Brio OnDemand(TM) Server is a scalable Web application server that delivers full-featured ad-hoc query, reporting and analysis functionality over the Web using client pull technology. The Brio Broadcast Server runs scheduled queries and pushes pre-computed reports and documents out to Web, client/server and mobile users via FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to , email, Web and file servers. Reports can also be sent directly to any network printer from the Broadcast Server. "It is Brio's goal to become the universal business intelligence front-end for any kind of information-based environment, from traditional RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database and OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. solutions to Web-based knowledge management systems," said Katherine Glassey, Brio's CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and executive vice president of products and services. "With the introduction of the Brio Enterprise Server, and the upgrade of the Brio Enterprise product family to release 5.5, Brio is excited to offer the first full-featured Web-based query, reporting and analysis solution for the extended enterprise." The OnDemand Server enables scalable Web-based business intelligence The OnDemand Server allows browser-based business intelligence users easy and secure access to corporate information stores and database systems, with full query-across-the-Web capability. The OnDemand Server also features support for zero-administration clients. This technology automatically installs and updates Brio's cross platform, high-performance Web clients, Brio.Quickview and Brio.Insight. This capability dramatically lowers the total cost of ownership for IT organizations. The need to install complex middleware and client/server software across diverse platforms is now eliminated, clearing the path to easily grow the business intelligence user base. Query execution is performed on the server, which then pre-builds reports and transmits them back to Brio.Insight Web clients. Recipients can then engage in personal reporting and analysis to gain critical insight to important business questions using the exact same functionality and user interface found in the client-server based BrioQuery Navigator product. Adaptive Reports empower IT to publish documents that adapt to users needs The exclusive Adaptive Report technology in Brio Enterprise 5.5 allows organizations to meet the diverse needs of different report users more easily than ever. These needs range from viewing a report on screen or paper, to exploring the data contained in a report and performing further analysis and formatting. Analysis often leads to new questions, which requires ad-hoc querying. Brio.Insight is the first product that can adapt its functionality based on the contents of the report and the users security profile. This means that users don't need to install multiple products, or worse, have free form control over information they should only be allowed to view. IT can focus on publishing, or giving access to, data anywhere in the extended enterprise, and reducing their reporting backlog by granting analysis and ad-hoc querying capabilities to specific users, or groups of users, on a report by report basis. Five different functional modes can be dynamically enabled, from View-Only to full Query-and-Analysis. Brio Enterprise 5.5 As part of the product introduction, Brio is also upgrading the entire Brio Enterprise product line -- BrioQuery Designer, BrioQuery Explorer, BrioQuery Navigator, Brio.Insight, and Brio.Quickview. Brio Enterprise 5.5 delivers significant enhancements to both the client/server and Web-based members of the product family, including: -- Advanced reporting with a streamlined user interface -- Several new analytic functions In mathematics, an analytic function is a function that is locally given by a convergent power series. Analytic functions can be thought of as a bridge between polynomials and general functions. in the multidimensional mul·ti·di·men·sion·al adj. Of, relating to, or having several dimensions. mul  ti·di·men Pivotsheets(TM) -- Advanced query processing capabilities including pre-determined join paths and DrillOut, which allows users to easily move between associated data models -- Extended database connectivity support, including Oracle Express, Arbor Essbase version 5, and Microsoft OLE DB (OLE DataBase) A programming interface for data access from Microsoft. It is a COM object that functions in a similar manner to ODBC, but for every type of data source, not just SQL databases. , and improved RDBMS support for NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers Teradata, Oracle 8, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Universal Server "Brio Enterprise 5.5 represents a tremendous leap forward in Brio's ability to deliver enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions across the Web," said Wayne Eckerson, senior analyst at the Patricia Seybold Patricia B. Seybold, CEO of Patricia Seybold Group, is the author of Customers.com, The Customer Revolution, Outside Innovation, and co-author of Brandchild. Her books, (particularly Customers. Group. "The strength of Brio Enterprise 5.5 is that it allows users to adjust the functionality of the reports they create to match the information requirements The information needed to support a business or other activity. Systems analysts turn information requirements (the what and when) into functional specifications (the how) of an information system. of the reports' recipients. This allows Brio Enterprise 5.5 to provide a high degree of functionality or a high degree of database interactivity or a combination of both." Availability The Brio Enterprise Server is available now on Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , and will be available on Sun Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. and IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. later this year. The products will be publicly unveiled at The Data Warehouse Institute Conference in Washington, D.C. November 18-20 and at the UK Data Warehouse Conference in London, England, November 18-19. About Brio Technology Inc. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Brio Technology provides leading edge business intelligence solutions for organizations worldwide. The Brio Enterprise product family provides a balanced, comprehensive solution that uniquely and affordably delivers data warehouse information throughout the enterprise and beyond. By combining the power of a distributed client/server architecture An environment in which the application processing is divided between client workstations and servers. It implies the use of desktop computers interacting with servers in a network in contrast to processing everything in a large centralized mainframe. See client/server. with the flexibility of Web-enabled application delivery, Brio Enterprise products provide a complete solution for delivering business intelligence throughout the enterprise. Brio's products, available in four languages and on seven platforms, are sold directly in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Australia and through a global network of distributors, systems integrators and VARs. Brio has strong technical partnerships with the leading suppliers of data warehouse solutions, databases, high-performance hardware, and Web technology. Brio Technology is a privately held, venture-backed corporation with more than 4,000 customers in over 19 countries. Brio can be reached by visiting their World Wide Web site at http://www.brio.com, or by calling 650/856-8000, or faxing 650/856-8020. CONTACT: The Horn Group Bill Cox, 650/579-6449 bcox@horngroup.com or Brio Technology Inc. Nick Halsey, 650/856-8000 nhalsey@brio.com |
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