AppsCo Software Wins Brio Technology Award

AppsCo Software Inc, a leading provider of data warehouse and analytic application development solutions for Microsoft SQL Server, announced it has won the Brio Technology Inc "Excellence in Partnering" Synergy Solutions award, recognizing a Brio partner that utilizes its complementary skills and technology to deliver a total customer solution.

The announcement was made at Microsoft Fusion 2000, the largest worldwide gathering of Microsoft Certified Solution Providers, Independent Software Vendors, Application Service Providers and Resellers, held at the Georgia World Congress Center.

AppsCo worked with Brio, a leading provider of analytic solutions for the e-enterprise, to develop an integrated, seamless end-to-end platform for the development of easily customizable packaged analytic applications for Microsoft SQL Server. The joint AppsCo-Brio solution, demonstrated in AppsCo's booth No. 539, enables businesses running Microsoft SQL Server to quickly transform data from operational systems into highly targeted "out-of-the box" analytic applications that provide immediate business insights, while significantly reducing development and deployment time and associated costs.

Integrated via Microsoft Meta Data Services

Specifically, Brio integrated AppsMart, AppsCo's software development environment for Microsoft SQL Server, with Brio.Enterprise 6.0, which delivers personalized information access, analysis, and reporting capabilities to every user in an organization. AppsMart and Brio.Enterprise 6.0 are integrated via SQL Server meta data services, enabling Brio to automate the generation of reports and analysis needed to deliver out-of-the-box, customizable analytic applications.

"We are pleased to honor AppsCo with the Brio's Synergy Solution award, given to companies that deliver complementary functionality and add significant value to our customers' investments in Brio," said Sujata Luther, executive vice president of marketing at Brio Technology. "AppsCo's AppsMart, combined with Brio.Enterprise, enables developers and integrators to quickly build custom, Web-enabled analytical applications."

Added Steve Murchie, data warehousing group product manager, SQL Server marketing, Microsoft Corp, "AppsMart and Brio have developed a powerful solution for rapidly developing highly targeted business intelligence solutions for SQL Server customers. AppsMart's deep integration with SQL Server meta data services ensures it can be seamlessly integrated with Brio.Enterprise and other leading business intelligence tools, providing companies a true end-to-end development and deployment solution."

Said AppsCo CEO Brian Burnett, "We are delighted to win the Brio 'Excellence in Partnering' award. We are committed to providing Microsoft Certified Solution Providers with the most powerful platform for developing SQL Server-based data warehouses and out-of-the-box, end-to-end analytic applications," Burnett said. "We look forward to working with Brio to provide business intelligence solutions to those companies seeking higher-end analytic capabilities than those provided with Microsoft SQL Server and Office2000."

Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance (DWA) 2000 Partner Member

AppsCo is a Partner member in the Microsoft Data Warehousing Alliance (DWA) 2000. Achieving Partner status -- the highest level possible -- indicates that AppsMart conforms to the highest level of support for Microsoft's Data Warehousing Framework and ensures it is fully integrated with Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office 2000 and the Microsoft Windows NT platform. AppsMart was the only product to achieve Partner certification under Microsoft's Data Warehousing Build and Management Tools category, consisting of solutions that are primarily focused on data movement and transformation from source databases into a data warehouse.

About AppsMart

AppsMart enables developers to quickly build and deploy SQL Server-based analytic applications. Using AppsMart, developers iterate the application design to meet user requirements and deploy the solution to Microsoft SQL Server. AppsMart includes features for star schema design and deployment, and the automatic generation of OLAP Services cubes, DTS packages and Office2000 reports and documentation, providing developers a rapid start, and consistent methods and techniques when implementing a data warehouse or analytic application on the Microsoft platform.

About Brio Technology

Brio Technology Inc delivers a complete B2B analytic software infrastructure that enables companies to use information -- inside and outside the firewall -- to be more competitive, customer-centric and responsive to the changing demands of business. The Brio ONE solution meets the complete range of decision-processing needs with integrated business intelligence, enterprise reporting, enterprise information portals and packaged analytic applications that work across client/server and Web environments, all with ease of experience and scalability.

With Brio ONE, companies can derive higher business value from all of their enterprise information sources, including ERP, SFA, and CRM applications as well as data marts, data warehouses, and the Web. Brio products are available through direct sales and professional services organizations located in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and more than 40 countries worldwide through VARs, resellers and distributors. Brio has commercial relationships with companies such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. Brio Technology is based in Santa Clara, California, and can be reached at 800-879-BRIO or at www.brio.com.

About AppsCo Software Limited

AppsCo Software Limited, founded in 1998, is a leading supplier of analytic application development products. AppsCo develops and markets AppsMart, an analytic application development environment. A patent pending technology, AppsMart enables developers to design analytic applications based on pre-built vertical market solutions, using standard methods and processes. Backed by venture capital firms 3i, Vertex Management Group, Scottish Equity Partnership, Grampian Enterprise Limited, Aberdeen Asset Management and British Linen Equity, AppsCo is a privately held company. AppsCo is based in Surrey, United Kingdom, and has U.S. operations in Bellevue, Washington. More information on the company and its AppsMart solution is available on the Web at www.appsco.com, or by calling 404-303-5117.

Contact Humphrey Strategic Communications, for AppsCo Software Inc, Scott Humphrey, 503-644-9709, humphrey@strategic-pr.com.