Brio Technology Names Sybase Executive Bob Currie as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations.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)--Sept. 6, 1996--Brio Technology, the leader in desktop decision support solutions for the data warehouse, today announced that Sybase executive, Robert (Bob) Currie, has joined Brio's senior management team as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. Currie will be responsible for managing and directing the company's explosive growth in domestic, international and channel sales as well as lead the new professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. group. An 8-year Sybase veteran, Currie was instrumental in growing the company from $5 million to over $700 million in revenues. He directed over 700 employees and was responsible for direct sales, services, support and channel operations. He also spent several years in Europe where he structured European operations for growth and turned that business into greater than 30 percent of Sybase's overall revenue. "Bob is a strategic addition to Brio's executive management team. His experience and expertise in managing direct and international sales efforts will contribute immediately to our explosive growth" said Yorgen Edholm, 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. Technology's president and founder. "We expect to become the number one provider of desktop 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 for the data warehouse. Bob has the right stuff to get us there." Prior to Sybase, Currie founded a financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. company and grew it to $22 million in three years. He had previously spent three years as Vice President of Sales at Grid during their halcyon hal·cy·on n. 1. A kingfisher, especially one of the genus Halcyon. 2. A fabled bird, identified with the kingfisher, that was supposed to have had the power to calm the wind and the waves while it nested on the sea days where he started and ran the enormously successful Federal Systems Division. Currie brings more than 18 years of sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a experience to Brio's attack on the data warehouse market. "I am pleased to be part of this exciting, high growth company which is at the cusp of exploding with the data warehouse market" said Currie. "Brio is poised to take off like a rocket and I'm looking forward being part of a successful mission". About Brio Technology, Inc. Based in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , Brio Technology, Inc. is the leader in desktop decision support solutions for the data warehouse. Brio's corporate mission is to provide user-centric solutions that are sophisticated, powerful and easy to use. Brio's products are based on a patented desktop OLAP architecture that is open, scalable and robust and requires no change to existing IT platforms. A technology innovator since 1990, Brio pioneered both the first graphical drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. query tool and the first desktop OLAP product. With over 1,700 sites and 60,000 users, Brio's products and services are sold direct in the US, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia as well as through a worldwide network of distribution partners, systems integrators and VARs. Brio Technology is a privately held, venture-based corporation whose investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Integral Capital Partners and Novus Ventures. Brio can be reached by visiting http://www.brio.com on the World Wide Web, or by calling 415/856-8000. CONTACT: Brio Technology, Inc. Kathy Waite, 415/856-8000 kwaite@brio.com or The Horn Group Bonnie Harris/Valdis Hellevik, 415/579-6400 bharris@horngroup.com vhellevik@horngroup.com |
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