Brio Technology goes international with German, French and Italian versions of BrioQuery 3.5; Brio also expands international partnership program to include five new distributors.LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 1995--Brio Technology, Inc., a leader in data access and analysis solutions for the data warehouse, today announced the immediate availability of its 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 in English and German. French and Italian versions will be available in November. The company is also announcing the expansion of its ConBrio Partnership Program to include European countries as well as the addition of five new distributors. "Europe is increasingly without borders A number of NGOs have adopted the "Without Borders" tag, inspired by Doctors without Borders.
At the core of today's announcement is the simultaneous introduction of BrioQuery 3.5 in English in the U.S. as well as German, French and Italian versions. In addition to all the features in BrioQuery 3.5, these European versions are not only localized but specifically support international formatting for language-sensitive data, time, currency formats and sorting for standard operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . The implementation of these new features provides the ideal architecture for localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. and enables Brio's multinational customers to deploy data warehouse solutions worldwide. BrioQuery 3.5 is also available for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). desktops, offering these new features for Sun OS and Sun Solaris platforms as well as Windows 3.1., Windows 95, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and MacOS and PowerMac. BrioQuery 3.5 Meta Data Integration Brio's recent partnership with Prism Solutions has resulted in the first solution to provide seamless user access to meta data and business information. Until now, users have not been able to take full advantage of the combination of front-end access tools and meta data navigation products. As a result of this integration, BrioQuery 3.5 and Prism Directory Manager 2.0 share a dynamic link that provides users with a single, unified view of their data warehouse. Specifically, the integration of these two industry leading products gives users the ability to launch BrioQuery by simply clicking on an icon directly from Prism Directory Manager 2.0. This provides users a better understanding of the data being analyzed for decision making purposes because the user can identify what the data means and then easily retrieve the data for analysis. The third component of today's announcement is Brio's expansion of its ConBrio Partnership Program to include international members. Specifically, the ConBrio Partnership Program includes elements for Channel Partners, Service Providers, and Industry Partners. Brio is working with these companies under joint development, marketing, and sales agreements to deliver all the expertise, services, training, and products to enable customers to more effectively design, implement, and manage their decision support systems. The latest international partners include: -0- systemfabrik GmbH - Germany Contact: Gerrit Kolb 49-40-23-80-8182 Management Decisions - United Kingdom Contact: Stuart Holness 44-181-569-8310 Sunnybit GmbH - Switzerland Contact: Paul Vogler 41-56-91-02-42 ID Systems Vaassen - The Netherlands Contact: Chris Neimejer 31-5788-72029 IRONBRIDGE Group Pty. ltd. - South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. Contact: Graham Vernaak 27-12-663-4430 "Brio markets its products through a highly professional group of distributors throughout the world. Brio's distributors, who specialize in decision support and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse solutions, are opening the international markets with a great deal of success," said Mike Young, Brio's International Sales Director. "Their ability to provide local support, training and services as well as native versions of BrioQuery allows them to truly meet the needs of our international customers." About Brio Technology, Inc. Based in Mountain View, Calif., Brio Technology, Inc. provides desktop software solutions that support knowledge-based decisions. A technology innovator, Brio pioneered 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, created the first commercial multi-dimensional analysis product and today provides the most refined, well-architected and usable products for end user access to databases. Brio's products and services are sold directly and through a worldwide network of distributors, systems integrators and VARs. Sales offices are located in Mountain View, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Raleigh, 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 and DataPivot are registered trademarks and BrioQuery is a trademark of Brio Technology, Inc. All other trademarks are acknowledged. CONTACT: Brio Technology, Inc. Mike Young, 011-44-1702-589-245 Nick Halsey, 415/961-4110 or The Horn Group Bonnie Snow, 415/579-6400 |
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