Decisionism Ships Release 3.0 of Aclue Information Server.

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BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000

Major New Capability Supports Relational Databases and UNIX 

Decisionism Inc., a leading supplier of solutions for e.business information reporting and analysis, today announced the general availability of Release 3.0 of its Aclue(TM) Information Server.

Aclue is the only packaged solution that rapidly develops, deploys and manages analytical applications across a full range of On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) database technologies as well as relational technologies. Aclue automates turning corporate data into high-value information for reporting and analytical applications.

With the added support for relational technologies, Aclue extends its unsurpassed, comprehensive foundation for the analytical technologies that drive business success. Supported platforms now include: Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 7.0 and SQL Server OLAP Services (NASDAQ:MSFT), Oracle(R) 8i, Oracle Express(R), Oracle Sales Analyzer(TM), Oracle Financial Analyzer(TM) (NASDAQ:ORCL) and Hyperion(R) Essbase(R) (NASDAQ:HYSL).

In addition to the major enhancement to automatically design and build star schema relational databases, Aclue Release 3.0 incorporates significant advances in several areas.

-- Support for Sun Microsystems(R) (NASDAQ:SUNW) Solaris(TM) version 6, a UNIX operating system.

-- Dynamic relational metadata support for Oracle Discoverer and BrioQuery (NASDAQ:BRYO).

-- Support for Oracle Sales Analyzer (OSA). Aclue now completely supports all of the Oracle reporting and analysis tools.

-- Expanded ability to manage and employ user-defined attributes associated with corporate data, enhancing the meaning and utility of information delivered in business applications.

-- A repository of standard analytical calculations that can be used throughout an enterprise in a range of different, but related, business applications. This ensures that as information is delivered to a growing range of business users through a series of applications, the corporate rules for interpreting the data stay the same.

-- Greatly enhanced capabilities for Hyperion Essbase outline maintenance and application development. Specifically, Aclue 3.0 has significantly greater support for consolidation attributes, data storage attributes, calculation rules, member formulas, and a wide range of calculation properties.

-- More comprehensive support for Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA) that broadens the range of target databases supported within OFA, including shared administrator databases, and automatic execution of OFA Solves and distributions.

-- An open interface for externally defined data extraction and transformation processing. In complex environments where data preprocessing is best handled by custom-developed programming, Aclue will manage the execution of the preprocessing steps and retrieve data from the result.

-- Numerous additional features, enhancements, and new wizards to assist the Aclue administrator.

&uot;This is the most significant expansion of the capabilities of Aclue to date,&uot; said Brad Geddes, Vice President and General Manager of e.Business Performance Management at Decisionism. &uot;The added support for relational technologies means that no matter what analytical or reporting platform a company uses, or may use in the future, Aclue can manage the information. When working with a business user, the comprehensive nature of Aclue lets our consultants focus on the business problem, with the confidence that the solution will support whatever technical environment IT has selected.&uot;

The Aclue Information Server is a vital component in any reporting and analysis application. All the data necessary for a meaningful business application is rarely in one place, or in the form of business information that can truly assist decision makers. Aclue provides a business information model that transforms and integrates data from one or more sources into valuable business information. And, with the growing interest in Microsoft's SQL Server OLAP Services, Aclue is a natural way to deploy this new technology without abandoning existing analytical technologies.

About Decisionism

Headquartered in Boulder, Colo., Decisionism Inc. is a leader in providing solutions that turn business information into money. Decisionism was selected by Computerworld as one of the &uot;100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2000&uot; and is a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider and a Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance Partner. Decisionism is also a member of the On Oracle alliance program, a Hyperion Solutions Alliance Partner, and has business partnerships with Walker Interactive Systems (NASDAQ:WALK) and Knosys, Inc.

Decisionism markets its products and services to Fortune 1000 and mid-size organizations that are seeking to rapidly deliver e.business reporting and analysis applications that require accurate, consistent, and timely information from across the enterprise. Its customers span a variety of industries and include major sites such as Adlink, AirTouch International (NYSE:ATI), Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Fluor Daniel (NYSE:FLR), ConAgra (NYSE:CAG), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Nissan Motor Co., Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) and U S WEST Information Technologies (NYSE:USW). Decisionism sells Aclue as part of a complete solution with 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].

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