CorVu Corporation Partners With Ardent in MetaConnect Cooperative.

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1998--

Joins Industry-Leading Tool Vendors in Breakthrough Meta Data

Integration Program

CorVu Corporation, the leading provider of Business Intelligence, Business Performance Management and automated Balanced Scorecard solutions today announced that it has joined the Ardent Software MetaConnect Cooperative, a breakthrough meta data integration program designed to allow warehouse tools to share meta data directly, across the enterprise.

Through this cooperative, Ardent is developing MetaBrokers--direct interfaces with leading software tools--for release early in the first quarter of 1999. In joining the Ardent MetaConnect Cooperative, CorVu is providing customers with an unprecedented meta data integration solution that will enhance the value and effectiveness of the data warehouse.

"The MetaConnect partner program is a first because it enables CorVu to provide optimum solutions that overcome the problems posed by disconnected meta data environments," said Pete Fiore, vice president and general manager of Ardent Software's Data Warehouse business unit. "Ardent's meta data integration solution enhances CorVu's ability to share meta data without requiring a repository delivering seamless best-of-breed solutions."

"CorVu's participation in the MetaConnect partner program and partnerships like this enhance CorVu's ability to deliver the most robust Business Performance Management solutions to the market," said Alan Missroon, CorVu's vice president of marketing. "This partnership further solidifies CorVu as the leading provider of Business Performance Management and automated Balanced Scorecard solutions."

About the MetaConnect Cooperative

At the core of the MetaConnect program is an advanced technology that enables the decomposition and recomposition of meta data components into simple units of meaning. By breaking down and recombining data at this level, each tool is able to communicate the complex semantics of its own meta data. The MetaConnect Cooperative is an integral component of Ardent's overall strategy for solving meta data management issues.

About CorVu Corporation

CorVu is the only supplier in the world today with a comprehensive set of interactive business intelligence and performance management software solutions designed for OLAP query and reporting, executive dashboard alerts, forecasting, and Balanced Scorecard automation. CorVu has U.S. offices in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.; Australian offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth; and European offices in London and Rotterdam. With more than 2000 customers, including companies such as BHP, Datacard, Mincom, Prudential, Johnson & Johnson, Unisys, Ford Motor Company and BF Goodrich, CorVu's Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard solutions are gaining broad market acceptance. Additional information about CorVu products and services can be found on CorVu's Web site at http://www.corvu.com or call [phone].

About Ardent Software

Ardent Software is a data management company with a range of software products, including database systems and data warehouse development tools. Its products include the O2 System(R), a high-performance object database management system; DataStage(R), a data warehouse development tool; and UniVerse(R) and UniData(R), extended relational database management systems for packaged business applications. With worldwide sales and service operations, as well as 1,000 resellers in more than 50 countries, Ardent is one of the top software companies in the world. More than 50,000 customers and over 2,000,000 users in virtually every aspect of business and government use Ardent's products to overcome their most complex data management problems. Additional information is available on Ardent's web site at www.ardentsoftware.com .

COBOL Direct Connect, DataStage, O2 System, RedBack, System Builder, UniData UniVerse and wIntegrate are registered trademarks of Ardent Software, Inc. Other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of the respective trademark holders.

CorVu is a registered trademark of CorVu Corporation.