Business Objects Announces Support For Red Brick Warehouse 5.0; Industry Leading Integrated Query, Reporting, and OLAP Tool To Leverage Red Brick's Advanced Analysis Features.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1996--Business Objects, the world's leading provider of integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing (OLAP) tools, today announced support for Red Brick Warehouse 5.0. Red Brick Systems, Inc.'s newest release extends Red Brick Warehouse beyond general purpose transaction-oriented relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to provide advanced features for data warehouse and data mart applications.

BusinessObjects is the industry's leading integrated query, reporting, and OLAP tool that helps mainstream users make better business decisions on information stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. Red Brick Warehouse 5.0 provides advanced functionality, scalability, and performance for data warehousing, data mart, data mining, OLAP, and database marketing applications. The combination of BusinessObjects 4.0 and Red Brick Warehouse 5.0, in particular the support for Red Brick's RISQL(R) features, will provide customers with a unique solution for high performance and highly scalable data warehouses.

"BusinessObjects and Red Brick Warehouse provide customers with a winning combination for decision support on data warehouses," said Dave Kellogg, vice president of corporate marketing at Business Objects. "Customers want to be able to make fast, informed decisions. Our partnership and support for Red Brick 5.0 allow us to deliver complete data warehouse solutions to our mutual customers."

"Red Brick and Business Objects have partnered in a number of large scale data warehouse implementations to date," said Chris Grejtak, vice president of marketing at Red Brick. "Red Brick Warehouse users will be able to take full advantage of all the great features in Business Objects' decision analysis and OLAP tools while maximizing performance, scalability and functionality through our integrated data warehouse solutions."

About Red Brick Systems

Red Brick Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:REDB) is the leading provider of data warehouse products and service. The company, based in Los Gatos, Calif., specializes in software products used for fast, accurate and confident business decisions on large client/server databases.

About Business Objects

Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY) is the world's leading supplier of integrated query, reporting, and OLAP tools. The company's flagship product, BusinessObjects, provides mainstream business users with access to information stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent decision support tools in 1990 by introducing the first product to use a "semantic layer." This patented technology maps complex database schemas to a business representation understandable by non-technical end users.

Business Objects led the overall decision support tools market in 1995 with software license revenues of $48.7M, and outsold its nearest query and reporting tools competitor two-to-one according to IDC. BusinessObjects is in use at over 3,200 organizations in over 60 countries, and has sold more than 350,000 licenses around the world. More information on Business Objects can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.businessobjects.com.

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