Brio Technology and WhiteLight Systems Among First to Integrate Using Microsoft's OLE DB for OLAP; Users Get Powerful Analyses of Heterogeneous Corporate Data.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1998--Brio Technology, the enterprise business intelligence company, and WhiteLight Systems Inc., the industry's only vendor of enterprise business modeling software, announced today they will integrate 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 family of business intelligence products and the WhiteLight product family using the Microsoft 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. database access standard, 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. for OLAP. The integrated solution will provide users with a single interface to relational and multi-dimensional data sources through Brio Enterprise, and complex analyses and enterprise business modeling capabilities through WhiteLight. The 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. and WhiteLight Systems partnership will produce one of the first integrated solutions using the Microsoft OLE DB for OLAP API, announced by Microsoft last September. Both companies participated in the release, citing their support to provide complete enterprise business intelligence solutions. The combined solution will be widely available later this year. "By combining forces, Brio and WhiteLight are among the first to provide a joint solution that takes advantage of the open interface provided by the OLE DB for OLAP API," said Steve Murchie, data warehousing product manager at Microsoft. "This new partnership reflects the many new choices being created for OLAP users, supporting best of breed products through a common, standardized API." As part of the agreement, WhiteLight Systems is joining the Brio Partner Enterprise, a comprehensive worldwide partner program designed to foster the delivery of best of breed data warehouse and business intelligence solutions worldwide. "The integrated solution will help customers realize the power of data distributed across the enterprise," said Jannell Wei, director of channel and partner marketing at Brio Technology. "The WhiteLight partnership ensures the delivery of enhanced analytics within a framework of business models which empowers users to fully explore strategic information and drive better business decisions." "Users of the integrated solution will notice how quickly they can develop and deploy business intelligence applications," said Michael Brill, vice-president of marketing at WhiteLight. "Brio Enterprise makes it easy to transparently access heterogeneous data sources, using industry standard connections." 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, Calif., and can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.brio.com, or by calling 800/879-BRIO. About WhiteLight Systems Inc. Founded in 1992, WhiteLight Systems Inc., a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , develops and markets the industry's only Enterprise Business Modeling solution. Enterprise Business Modeling enables companies to iteratively build, analyze, validate and publish sophisticated data warehouse-based business models without programming support. Using WhiteLight, corporations can quickly analyze the details of their business and measure performance on a company-wide basis. The company has received primary funding by Warburg Pincus Ventures, Charter Ventures, and Sybase. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company's European headquarters are in London. For more information about WhiteLight Systems, visit its web site at www.whitelight.com. CONTACT: Brio Technology Jennifer Braun, 650/856-8000 or WhiteLight Systems Inc. Kathy Simpson, 650/321-2183, ext. 281 or The Horn Group Bill Cox, 650/579-6400 or Martell Communications Colleen Martell, 408/374-7420 |
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