Brio Technology and Sand Technology Announce Product Line Integration; Powerful Combination of Brio Enterprise and Nucleus Exploration to Benefit Business Users.

PALO ALTO, Calif. and MONTREAL, Quebec--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1998- -Brio Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRYO) and Sand Technology Systems International, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNDCF) today announced a joint marketing alliance and the integration of the Brio Enterprise suite of business intelligence products with Sand's Nucleus Exploration product suite. Available immediately, the combined products give business users an easy and effective way to get answers to the most crucial business questions.

With the new alliance, Brio and Sand will participate in joint marketing programs targeted at corporations needing business intelligence solutions to greatly enhance success in target marketing, customer relationship management, risk and competitive analysis, and campaign management.

Brio's powerful, easy-to-use suite of query, analysis and reporting tools coupled with Sand's revolutionary Nucleus Exploration product suite deliver a powerful capability in answering unanticipated and very complex `what if' or exploratory business questions. Together, the integrated products provide the scalability, performance, flexibility and ease-of-use needed by today's demanding business users.

"Brio's outstanding technology, market position and customer base made them a logical choice to align with in driving Nucleus' market dominance in the Exploration Warehouse and Exploration Mart marketplaces," stated Kevin Horigan, executive vice president, Sand Technology. "Combined, the Brio products and Nucleus will set the standard for what is to come in the Exploration market."

"Sand's focus on ensuring that customers see immediate business benefits through the use of innovative technology mirrors Brio's commitment to enabling ROI through products that customers genuinely like to use," added Chris Grejtak, executive vice president of Brio Technology. "Together, the integration of Brio Enterprise and Nucleus provides extremely powerful ad hoc analytical capabilities to today's `need-it-yesterday' decision-makers."

The products will be demonstrated in the Brio Technology booth at the DCI Data Warehouse World conference held in New York City July 28-30. Bill Inmon, well-known as the `father of data warehousing', will be delivering a keynote speech and discussing the benefits of the Exploration and Prototype Warehouse concept.

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 four languages 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, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia, and worldwide 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.

About Sand Technology

Sand Technology Systems International, Inc. provides high performance, scaleable software solutions for data mining, data marts, data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP). Sand's Nucleus product suite brings patented technology to the business user allowing for more timely and accurate decision processing within the disconnected client, desktop, workgroup, departmental and enterprise computing environments. Sand Technology can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.sandtechnology.com.

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