Brio Technology and Pine Cone Systems Announce Strategic Partnership; Companies Introduce Integrated Solution for Enterprise Data Warehouse Management.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1998--Brio Technology, Inc. and Pine Cone Systems, Inc. -- companies founded by two of the industry's visionaries, Katherine Glassey, co-founder of Brio Technology, and Bill Inmon, founder of Pine Cone Systems -- today announced a strategic partnership and integrated solution. Brio Technology, the enterprise business intelligence company, and Pine Cone Systems, the leading provider of data warehousing administration and management solutions, announced the technical integration of the Brio Enterprise family of business intelligence products with Pine Cone's Usage Tracker(tm) software for data warehouse management at the DCI (Display Control Interface) An Intel/Microsoft programming interface for full-motion video and games in Windows. It allowed applications to take advantage of video accelerator features built into the display adapter. conference in Orlando, Florida, March 17-18. Demonstrations of the integrated Brio/Pine Cone solution will be conducted in the Brio booth (booth No. 110) on March 17 and in the Pine Cone booth (booth No. 804) on March 18. "Organizations worldwide are increasingly reliant on the phenomenal competitive advantages that stem from the business intelligence enabled by today's data warehouses and data marts," said Katherine Glassey, co-founder and chief technology officer at Brio Technology. "Combining the power and flexibility of the Brio Enterprise suite of business intelligence reporting and analysis products with the unique strengths of Pine Cone's warehouse administrative software gives the IT professional an unparalleled set of capabilities. Warehouse administrators can more easily understand, analyze and report on the activity of their data warehouse, allowing them to proactively tune their decision support systems and build data warehouses that better meet the needs of end users." "Today, effective analysis of data warehouse usage is just as important as the analysis of data contained within the warehouse," added Bill Inmon, founder of Pine Cone Systems, Inc. "With the data collected by Usage Tracker, Brio Enterprise gives administrators the ability to do this in-depth analysis and significantly improve warehouse performance." Through the integration with Brio Enterprise, IT professionals using Pine Cone's Usage Tracker software to monitor and report on data warehouse usage now have the ability to perform ad hoc queries, dynamic analysis and reporting against comprehensive warehouse usage information. Knowing usage patterns, active times and areas, DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S execution time, and who is using the warehouse allows data warehouse administrators to significantly improve warehouse structure, scheduling and performance -- resulting in lowered costs and increased ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . As part of the partnership, Pine Cone Systems has joined the Brio Partner Enterprise(tm), a comprehensive worldwide partner program consisting of products and programs designed to foster the delivery of best-of-breed data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. In addition, Brio Technology has joined the Pine Cone Enabled systems partner program for leading 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. vendors. About Pine Cone Systems Pine Cone Systems, based in Colorado, is the leading supplier of software for data warehouse/data mart management and administration. Founded by Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse concept, Pine Cone's mission is to help organizations realize the full potential of their data warehouse/data marts by providing solutions to address the complex issues and unique challenges of managing the data warehouse environment. The company's market partners include Brio Technology, Business Objects, Cognos, Digital Equipment Corporation, Evolutionary Technologies International The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. , FISERV, Hewlett-Packard, Information Advantage, Informix Software, Intelligent Solutions, 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 , Oracle, Prism Solutions, Red Brick and Sybase. Pine Cone's products are available on most hardware platforms and support Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2/PE and NCR/Teradata databases. For more information, see www.pine-cone.com. About Brio Technology Brio Technology develops powerful, easy-to-use business intelligence software that helps organizations improve business operations and decision making processes. By combining anytime, anywhere information access with flexible IT control, the Brio Enterprise product family gives the broad array of end users across an organization access to critical business information which adapts to their individual needs. The Brio Enterprise product family is available in four languages on ten platforms. Brio has strategic partnerships with 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) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Netscape (NASDAQ:NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ) and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ). Brio Technology is 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. , and can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.brio.com, or by calling 1.800.879.BRIO. CONTACT: Brio Technology, Inc. Jennifer Braun, 650/845-3742 jbraun@brio.com or The Horn Group Bill Cox, 415/905-4000 bcox@horngroup.com or For Pine Cone Systems Scott Humphrey Humphrey Strategic Communications 503/644-9709 humphrey@strategic-pr.com |
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