CorVu and Sharp Corporation Subsidiary Launch Kanji Balanced Scorecard Solution.

Business Editors

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000

CorVu Corporation (NASDAQ bb: CRVU), a leading provider of Enterprise Business Performance Management, e-Business Intelligence, and Balanced Scorecard solutions, and Sharp System Products (SSP), launched their Kanji version of CorVu's certified balanced scorecard solution at a recent press conference in Tokyo. This major event established CorVu as the only currently available Japanese language Balanced Scorecard Solution. The event and product launch come within 1 month of CorVu's announcement of SSP's appointment as their distributor for Japan, Asia's largest IT market.

The product launch was followed two days later by CorVu's inaugural partner briefing and was attended by no less than 30 attendees from 15 partner organizations.

"It was impressive to see such a positive response from the Japanese media and partner community," commented Justin MacIntosh, CorVu's president and CEO. "I think this is a strong indication of the demand for automated performance management solutions in the Japanese market. I'm very excited about our joint opportunity, and the revenue potential for our solutions in the Japanese market."

"We see the high interest in this product launch as confirmation that SSP has moved in the right direction to support the Performance Management market in Japan," commented Mr. Nishiwaki, president of Sharp System Products. "As is true around the world, our economy is driven by excellence in business performance. Combining CorVu's technology with our data warehousing expertise delivers a complete solution that will enable Japanese companies to execute business strategies more efficiently and dramatically improve their bottom line business performance."

Combining CorVu's solutions with SSP's data warehouse applications will help SSP customers merge business vision, shrewd industry and competitive analysis, and the right measurements to enable effective execution of business strategy. "By leveraging the information in the data warehouse, CorVu solutions can assist in efficiently allocating resources, strengthening competitive capabilities, installing strategy-supportive policies and managing core competencies to match market realities," continued MacIntosh. "It also sends a clear message that data warehousing and business performance management go hand-in-hand."

About Sharp Systems Products

Sharp System Products (SSP) is one of the largest system integration companies in Japan and is one of the group of SHARP Corporation companies. SSP provides enterprise system solutions for business users through consulting, development and support services in the area of ERP, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence, Document Management and Store Automation systems. SSP focuses on three IT technologies - internet, Windows/NT and mobile computing. SSP employs approximately 1000 people and generates annual sales of over $600 million.

About CorVu Corporation

CorVu Corporation is a leading global provider of Enterprise Business Performance Management, Balanced Scorecard Solutions and e-Business Intelligence solutions. Combining OLAP query and reporting, executive dashboard alerts, forecasting, and Balanced Scorecard applications, CorVu provides a complete Enterprise Business Performance Management solution. CorVu has U.S. offices in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.; Asia Pacific offices in Sydney, Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth; and European offices in London, Munich, Rotterdam, Sheffield and Stockholm. With more than 2500 customers, including companies such as Datacard, Telstra, Mincom, Prudential, Sara Lee, Unisys, Ford Motor Company and British Airways, CorVu's Enterprise Business 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].

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