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High Tower Releases New Reporting Module for TowerView

High Tower Software, a leading provider of operational business intelligence solutions, and Brio Technology, a leading provider of business intelligence and analytic solutions, announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance. Under the terms of the agreement, High Tower will integrate and resell Brio.Enterprise as part of its TowerView product suite.

The integration of Brio.Enterprise will provide High Tower's customers with selective reporting based on first-level identification, visual or automatic, of any priority business information requiring reports. With this enhancement, customers can easily see which reports need to be looked at immediately for proactive intervention. In addition to automatic online viewing through Brio's thin-client interface, Brio's reporting capabilities generate customized and detailed reports when any output from TowerView requires hard copy.

High Tower joins an elite group of companies with its appointment as a Brio Strategic Software Partner. This alliance confirms High Tower's commitment to delivering leading solutions for applications across multiple industry groups including finance, retail and pharmaceutical.

"We are pleased to welcome High Tower Software as a strategic software partner," said Don Beck, Brio Technology's executive vice president, worldwide sales. "By partnering with High Tower Software, Brio is committed to providing customers access to a wide variety of corporate information through a complementary set of enterprise-scale business intelligence solutions."

Developed over the course of 10 years, specifically to handle high volume, real-time or relevant-time data, TowerView rapidly creates business applications that can monitor any specified business metrics, analyze for trends or problem conditions, and present a total view, visually and dynamically, using its award winning CyberGridT technology. The integration of Brio.Enterprise with TowerView will provide more powerful and flexible reporting capabilities, enabling High Tower's customers to generate customized and detailed reports based on TowerView's "event snapshot" and "event replay."

"Arming decision-makers with a large scale view of their real-time business operations must be a top priority for today's business leaders," said Dr. Ursula Schwuttke, CEO of High Tower Software.

"Working with BRIO allows us to offer the most complete 'business critical' solution available; our solution is a powerful complement to the world of business intelligence, answering the question of what is happening or has happened that cannot be uncovered by conventional transaction processing or post-event structured analysis. Using our software, companies can intercept or uncover adverse events or key opportunities that are contained in huge volumes of real-time and historical data. There is no other solution like it on the market today."

High Tower Software exhibited at this year's third annual worldwide Brio user conference, BRIO 2001, in Las Vegas. BRIO 2001 showcased effective business intelligence practices and analytic applications that drive business performance across the world's most influential corporations and organizations.

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 PlatformT 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 100, 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.

About High Tower Software

Founded in 1997, High Tower Software is a privately held company based in Aliso Viejo, California. High Tower Software provides the final component in the world of business intelligence -- the ability to track and react to business critical events and opportunities occurring between transaction processing and analytic applications. High Tower's TowerView product suite was developed over 10 years specifically to handle high volume, real-time or relevant-time data; TowerView monitors any specified business metrics, analyzes for trends or problem conditions, and presents a total view, visually, using the award winning CyberGrid technology. High Tower Software's products and services can be found at www.hightowersoftware.com.