Brio Continues Support for Informatica's Metadata Exchange

Brio Technology, a leading provider of business intelligence and analytic solutions for the Fortune 1000, announced that its latest version of Brio.Enterprise now supports Informatica Corporation's Metadata Exchange application programming interface (API). Brio.Enterprise's support of the Informatica Metadata Exchange API provides joint customers with a multitude of advantages, including the ability to view clear business descriptions of the data stored, as well as the option to see who last updated that information, and the date on which the update occurred. This collaboration between two technology leaders simplifies the data integration between Informatica and Brio solutions, and allows end users quickly to access and analyze data that is essential to their jobs.

"Brio has been a long-standing, valued partner of Informatica," stated Girish Pancha, senior vice president and general manager of platform technologies at Informatica. "As the need to integrate and analyze the exploding volumes of data from a growing number of disparate systems across the enterprise continues, it will be critical to provide users with robust analytic capabilities. Brio's continued support for the Informatica Metadata Exchange API provides joint customers with a powerful, end-to-end solution for leveraging their corporate information assets to gain business insight."

As a leading provider of enterprise data integration software, Informatica consolidates the data that Brio.Enterprise accesses, providing customers with the ability to directly access the integrated data by using the latest version of Brio.Enterprise. Because of Brio's ability to integrate with Informatica's solutions out of the box, joint customers are now immediately presented with clear business descriptions, as well as history on the data.

"As a long standing Informatica Partner, we are excited to offer our joint customers the ability to take advantage of the benefits associated with the Informatica Metadata Exchange API," said Katherine Glassey, chief strategy officer at Brio Technology. "As companies continue to rely on advanced data analysis to complete their jobs, it is critical that technology vendors continue to work together to ensure that corporate solutions meet the changing needs of today's dynamic workforce. Brio.Enterprise's focus on the end user takes advantage of the Informatica Metadata Exchange API and provides customers with access and analysis capabilities to real-time data."

The Informatica Metadata Exchange API is an open, bi-directional API for exchanging metadata between the Informatica Metadata Repository and other metadata repository stores. The Informatica Metadata Exchange API has grown to become the most widely adopted metadata access method in the industry, used by more business intelligence tool vendors than any other method. Informatica Metadata Exchange API is designed to provide the appropriate verification and validation required to ensure the integrity of metadata exchange.

About Informatica

Informatica provides eBusiness analytic software that enables companies to leverage business insight for competitive advantage. More than 1,100 global customers, including over half of the Fortune 100, leverage the Informatica Insight Network to integrate, analyze and personalize critical business information to improve business performance and responsiveness across the entire business value chain. Informatica products include a comprehensive family of analytic applications, the industry's most powerful data integration platform and a wide range of supporting services and partnerships. The company's list of leading customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Boeing, Borders Group, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Inktomi, Merck, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Motorola, Mutual of Omaha, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint and UBS. For more information, call 800-970-1179, or visit the Informatica Web site at www.informatica.com.

About Brio Technology

Brio Technology provides a proven and reliable analytic software platform that enables companies to simplify the complex process of using corporate data to make better day-to-day decisions. Widely recognized as one of the easiest to use and deploy analytic platforms in the industry, the Brio Enterprise Decision Platform expands business intelligence beyond advanced query and analysis technologies to include powerful information delivery through enterprise-class reporting and executive dashboards. Used by more than half of the Fortune 500, Brio products empower individuals, workgroups and executives in an organization to find, access, share, manage, and exchange information with thousands of employees, partners and customers through an Internet-enabled enterprise. Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Brio products and services can be found around the globe at www.brio.com.

Contact Mark Peterson of Brio Technology, 408-496-7754 or mark.peterson@brio.com.