Decisionism Signs First International Distribution Agreement With European Consultancy TEMTEC.

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 1999--Decisionism Inc., a leading provider of OLAP (online analytical processing) data mart management software, today announced that it has appointed TEMTEC as its first distributor of the company's Aclue(tm) Decision Supportware outside North America. Under the terms of the agreement, TEMTEC will sell Aclue in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. TEMTEC Management Information assists companies and institutions in the design and implementation of management information systems, and provides analytical solutions to companies in a wide variety of industries.

"Decisionism's Aclue software clearly represents a leading-edge foundation for creating, integrating and managing analytical applications," said Erik Weidgraaf, Director of TEMTEC. "We have identified many client applications that can benefit from the combined know-how of our companies, with our Executive Viewer(tm) software on the front end and Aclue providing an auditable engine that integrates and manages the delivery of data from multiple sources."

"Until now, Decisionism has focused on helping its North American customers reduce the costs and risks involved in successfully creating, deploying and managing OLAP-based business applications. With this new partnership, we will begin to grow our presence in Europe," said Gordon Rapkin, Decisionism's president and CEO. "TEMTEC's concentrated experience in OLAP applications gave us confidence that its European clients would receive quality services and support using Aclue to leverage their corporate investments in OLAP applications."

About Aclue

Aclue(tm) Decision Supportware saves time and money and delivers more dependable results by helping to rapidly create and deliver OLAP analytical applications and data marts that share consistent, synchronized data. Essential for applications that combine data from various sources, such as balanced scorecards, financial consolidation, or E-Commerce Analysis(tm), Aclue enables deployment of OLAP analytical applications across the enterprise. Aclue gathers and integrates data from multiple production systems and data warehouses into consistent and synchronized analytical databases. It is the only product of its type that supports all three top OLAP servers: Microsoft SQL Server(tm) 7.0 OLAP Services (formerly code-named "Plato"), Oracle(r) Express(r) and Hyperion(r) Essbase(r).

By uniquely combining a "hub-and-spoke" data mart architecture with OLAP technology, Decisionism's Aclue empowers enterprise deployment and management of OLAP-based applications and promotes end-user confidence in the integrity of an organization's data from acquisition to audit. Aclue's architecture also improves efficiency by eliminating repeated accesses of the source data.

For the business professional, Aclue includes powerful audit capabilities that answer "who/what/when/where" questions about the data without time-consuming manual tracing of data lineage. Aclue also supports one-click drillback to the detailed source data that was aggregated into any value of the cube -- even if that detail is not stored in the OLAP cube itself.

About TEMTEC

TEMTEC Management Information was formed in 1989 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The market's need for up-to-the-minute management information linked to individual performance measurement led to a decision to invest in research and the development of new tools. TEMTEC now provides IT consulting, training and project management in the OLAP field in Europe, and has developed several software products including the Essbase Ready Gold Executive Viewer product that allows quick access to information sourced from multidimensional databases. Due to growing interest in TEMTEC's software in North America, the company recently opened an office in Bannockburn, near Chicago.

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 flagship product, Aclue Decision Supportware, to Fortune 1000 and mid-size organizations seeking to quickly deliver analytical applications that require accurate, consistent, and timely information drawn from across the enterprise. A complete range of consulting and support services is also available to ensure customer success in implementing custom analytical applications with a rapid return on investment.

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 from its local sales offices across the U.S., 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. TEMTEC Inc. has applied for registration of the trade mark Executive Viewer. Microsoft is a registered trademark and SQL Server is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Oracle, Oracle Express and Express Server are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Hyperion and Essbase are registered trademarks of Hyperion Solutions.