Bud Michael Joins Decisionism as VP, Business Development.

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999--Decisionism Inc., the leader in OLAP data mart management software, has appointed Bud Michael to the newly created position of Vice President, Business Development. In this role, Michael's responsibilities encompass all aspects of identifying, forming and managing business partnerships, including seeking to expand current partnerships with the company's strategic OLAP partners - Hyperion Solutions (Nasdaq:HYSL), Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCL) and Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq:MSFT). Michael will also establish new partnerships that leverage Decisionism's offerings and extend the company's market reach throughout the world. Michael reports to Gordon Rapkin, Decisionism President and CEO.

Michael brings 20 years of successful experience in high technology sales, marketing and general business management to his new position, including executive positions at Intel, Tandem Computers, and Sequent Computers, as well as at mid-sized software and services companies. Most recently, he was Vice President, Sales & Marketing, at Client Systems, LLC, a value added distributor of Hewlett-Packard mid-range systems and Oracle database and applications software. Michael brings to Decisionism more than six years of international business development experience.

"Bud's appointment signals our strategic commitment to the critical area of business-to-business partnering," said Rapkin. "To date, our primary emphasis has been on direct sales and support to build a successful blue-chip customer base. Aclue is an outstanding foundation for analytical applications, and Bud will focus on building relationships with leading vendors and service providers in the decision support and analytical applications market."

"Decisionism is a growth-oriented technology leader - a great place to make a contribution by leveraging my experience and skills," said Michael. "As a member of the executive team, I also look forward to helping formulate corporate strategy and product definition for Decisionism."

Decisionism's flagship product, Aclue(tm) Decision Supportware, saves time and money and delivers more dependable results by helping to rapidly create and deploy analytical applications and data marts that share consistent, synchronized data. Essential for applications that integrate data from various sources, such as balanced scorecards, financial consolidation, or E-Commerce Analysis(tm), Aclue enables deployment of analytical applications across the enterprise. Aclue gathers and integrates data from multiple production systems and data warehouses into consistent and synchronized analytical applications in Hyperion Essbase, Oracle Express, and Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services that can be highly focused for specific user requirements.

About Decisionism

Headquartered in Boulder, Decisionism Inc. is focused on the mission of helping its customers to re-engineer their decision making processes using advanced OLAP technologies. Decisionism markets its product, Aclue Decision Supportware, to Fortune 1000 and mid-size organizations that are seeking to rapidly deliver analytical applications which require accurate, consistent, and timely information from across the enterprise.

Decisionism customers span a variety of industries and include major sites such as Adlink, AirTouch International (NYSE:ATI), Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Circle International, Fluor Daniel (a subsidiary of Fluor, NYSE:FLR), Gilroy Foods (a division of ConAgra, NYSE:CAG), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Nissan, Nordstrom (NASDAQ:NOBE) and U S WEST Information Technologies (NYSE:USW). Decisionism sells Aclue and its support, training and consulting services directly to end user organizations, and through selected value-added resellers, systems integrators and business partners. Decisionism is a privately held company financed by a group of leading institutional venture capital investors. Additional information about the company and product is available from Decisionism's Web site, www.decisionism.com, or by calling [phone].

Decisionism is a registered trademark, and Aclue and E-Commerce Analysis are trademarks of Decisionism Inc. Oracle and Oracle Express are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Hyperion and Essbase are registered trademarks of Hyperion Solutions. Microsoft SQL Server is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.