Information Advantage Signs Global Reseller and Application Development Agreement with IBM.

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 1999--

Information Advantage Inc. (Nasdaq: IACO), a leading provider of Business Intelligence software, announced today that it has signed a global software remarketing agreement with IBM. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will have rights to resell Information Advantage's MyEureka!(TM) ROLAP Engine, as well as market IBM industry solutions with MyEureka! ROLAP. Additionally, MyEureka!'s ROLAP Engine will be used within IBM's Makoro Category Manager to deliver analysis and reporting.

Information Advantage's MyEureka! suite of products, including its industry-leading ROLAP engine, provides companies with an open, scalable architecture for deploying applications, such as Makoro Category Manager. Through MyEureka!'s additional portal capabilities, employees have personalized access to comprehensive Business Intelligence, along with other internal and external information sources. With MyEureka! companies can consolidate, organize and deliver the information needed to make faster, more informed decisions.

"With our new relationship with IBM, Information Advantage has gained another significant application development relationship that will add MyEureka!'s reporting and analysis capabilities to industry-specific solutions, " said Larry Ford, president and CEO of Information Advantage. "Working with IBM, our entire organization will be able to leverage its extensive international representation to complement our field offices and reach new territories with MyEureka!"

About Information Advantage

Information Advantage Inc. is a leading provider of Business Intelligence solutions that are designed to accelerate and improve enterprise-wide decision making. MyEureka!, the first Business Intelligence portal, offers easy access to corporate information from a variety of sources, primarily including its comprehensive suite of Business Intelligence tools, while offering the security and scalability to support an entire organization of users. MyEureka! offers solutions for information portals, enterprise reporting, and data warehousing, and can enhance customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource plaMyEureka! is a trademark of Information Advantag

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hances Application Integration and Document Exchon integration (EAI) software, today announced .1 adds advanced Internet and mainframe security (CREs) have been incorporated into the new verreatly improves SmartTran's integration capabilctories to create a new wave of business changee Web, since the legacy applications and data that they operate on will finally be easily Web-enabled."

esses. Security and enterprise application integration are two top concerns in implementing new eBusiness solutions.

"We provide an advanced infrastructure that provides flexible mapping between Internet security and host security and delivers seamless integration of Internet authentication and enterprise access control. With the addition of these features to SmartTran, we've gone a long way toward eliminating our customers' concerns in the security and integration areas."

Mainframe security systems, including RACF, TopSecret and ACF2, are fully supported by SmartTran. In addition, SmartTran supports all Web security mechanisms including SSL, SHTTP, digital certificates and secure cookies. Key new product enhancements are: -0-

--   Enforcement of RACF, TopSecret and ACF2 security policies out to
     the Web and new client-server environments
--   Enhanced architecture to provide flexibility with new forms of
     user IDs, mapping and customizable security design
--   Ability to map LDAP, PKI, , and other forms of Web user
     ID/authentication securely to the host

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SmartTran's XML support enables customers to request and exchange XML documents with their business partners, as well as integrate applications via the interchange of XML documents. Examples include the ability to send a purchase order via the Internet, directly into a supplier's inventory system. XML has been accepted as standard by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

In addition to downstream XML, SmartTran customers can also integrate any applications through the use of XML documents. For non-XML applications, SmartTran includes SmartAPI, a new application interface that enables applications to act as SmartTran clients to access information contained in XML documents.

About the SmartTran Software

EnterpriseLink's SmartTran software integrates legacy applications, data and mainframe transaction systems for rapid delivery of e-business solutions.

SmartTran protects the integrity of existing applications and data while providing the security, scalability, reliability and manageability required to enable large populations of new users to access mainframe and AS/400 transaction systems via the Web. Customers have redeployed mainframe applications as sophisticated web-based eBusiness solutions in as few as 90 days.

About EnterpriseLink Technology Corporation

EnterpriseLink Technology Corporation makes it simple for major corporations to create eBusiness solutions using an object oriented development approach to save time and money. The company is the premier provider of Internet and extranet solutions that connect existing enterprise resources, including ERP, CRM, and SFA applications, over the web for a broad array of eBusiness purposes.

Tens of thousands of users connect to enterprise applications every day using SmartTran servers. The company is privately owned. Venture funding has been provided by CTC, the largest reseller of Sun and Netscape products in Japan, Japan-based Itochu, the world's largest trading company, and Woodside Capital Group.

EnterpriseLink is headquartered in Campbell, CA. The company's products are sold directly by EnterpriseLink and through resellers. Additional information is available at www.enterpriselink.com or by phone at 408/558-2000.

Note to Editors: EnterpriseLink is a registered trademark, and SmartTran is a trademark of EnterpriseLink Technology Corporation. All other brands and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.