Brio Technology and Oracle team to deliver comprehensive data warehousing solutions based on BrioQuery and Oracle7; Brio joins Oracle's Warehouse Technology Initiative with unique multidimensional front-end query tools to support mutual customers.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1995--Brio Technology Inc., a leader in data access and analysis solutions for the data warehouse market, Thursday announced it has joined Oracle's Warehouse Technology Initiative (WTI WTI West Texas Intermediate WTI Western Transportation Institute (Montana State University) WTI World Tribunal on Iraq WTI With The Idea (used in chess to point to the idea behind a specific move) ) as a key front-end tools vendor, further expanding the existing joint marketing, sales and development relationship between the two companies. As part of today's announcement, the need for such joint technology is underscored by existing customers such as Home Box Office (HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy ), whose company has benefited from using BrioQuery and Oracle7 as key components of its organization's data warehouse. "Our customers recognize the need for data warehouse solutions beyond single product offerings," said Yorgen Edholm, president and chief executive officer of 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. . "BrioQuery's interactive desktop engine provides an ideal architecture to combine with Oracle7 to give users all the benefits of multidimensional analysis In statistics, econometrics, and related fields, multidimensional analysis is a data analysis process that groups data into two basic categories: data dimensions and measurements. at their desktops." Brio's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , BrioQuery now provides data access and desktop multidimensional analysis to the Oracle7 repository. 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. joins the Oracle WTI with more than 30 other Oracle Business Alliance Partners to offer organizations comprehensive, integrated data warehouse solutions that combine complementary products to design, build, analyze and manage Oracle7 data warehouses. Home Box Office leverages Brio and Oracle Technology combination HBO, a subsidiary of Time-Warner and one of North America's largest cable television providers, is a joint customer of Brio and Oracle. The organization is presently rewriting its existing catalog of standard and customized queries in BrioQuery to support HBO's sales and marketing division. HBO currently has 250 users accessing the sales and marketing database. Future plans call for the inclusion of finance and HR applications comprising an additional 250 users. HBO is running Brio's products on RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. machines on an AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. platform with an Oracle7 database as the data repository. Sharyn McClosky, director of sales and marketing systems in HBO's information technology division and a 28-year data processing veteran, said, "It was easy to design BrioQuery so that it worked well with our Oracle7 data warehouse because the product is very user-friendly and easily customized according to our individual needs. BrioQuery enables our users - even non-technical ones - to `slice-and-dice' data in many ways that are valuable to all levels of sales and marketing." About BrioQuery BrioQuery is available in three configurations: Designer, Navigator and Explorer. Each one is configured to access a wide variety of databases including native support for Oracle, Sybase, Red Brick Warehouse and Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. and provides access to more than 50 other databases via SequeLink, EDA/SQL, DAL and ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. . About Brio Technology Inc. Based in Mountain View, Calif., Brio Technology Inc. is a leading supplier of desktop data access and analysis software for the data warehouse segment of the decision support market. Brio's products and services are sold directly and through 20 distributors, systems integrators, and VAR's worldwide. Sales offices are located in Mountain View, Indianapolis, Boston, Cincinnati, and the United Kingdom. Brio is a privately held, venture-backed corporation whose investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Novus Ventures. -0- Note to Editors: Brio is a registered trademark and BrioQuery is a trademark of Brio Technology Inc. All other trademarks are acknowledged. CONTACT: Brio Technology Inc. Katherine Glassey-Edholm, 415/961-4110 or The Horn Group Bonnie Snow, 415/579-6400 |
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