Analysis & Commentary:

BROWARD SCHOOL DISTRICT WINS TDWI 2002 BEST PRACTICES AWARD

Brio Software, a leading provider of next-generation business intelligence tools, announced that one of its customers, Broward County, a Florida Public School District, has won The Data Warehousing Institute's (TDWI's) coveted annual Best Practices Award for its business intelligence deployment in the government and non-profit organization category. The nation's fifth largest school district, Broward County uses Brio Intelligence to track and monitor data on 262,000 students, which includes attendance, test scores and overall classroom performance. The objective of the business intelligence deployment is to use this detailed information to improve student achievement and success.

"The competition this year for the Best Practices Awards was once again very strong," stated Wayne Eckerson, director of education and research at TDWI. "But the Broward County School District clearly stood out from the rest and demonstrated a set of best practices from which others can follow and learn from in the government and non-profit organization category."

TDWI's Best Practices Awards are designed to identify and honor companies that have demonstrated best practices in developing, deploying, and maintaining data warehouses and business intelligence applications. These awards serve as a model of best practices for other organizations and practitioners to follow. Winners were determined by a panel of experts, which included: practitioners, consultants, industry analysts, journalists, Journal of Data Warehousing editors, Institute Fellows and TDWI management.

The Broward County School District, in Florida, is comprised of 262,000 PK-12 students, 137,000 adult education students, 230 schools and 36,000 employees. More than 9,200 employees across the entire district turn to Brio's Intelligence to gain visibility into student records, staff and personnel data as well as individual teaching methods -- to improve classroom and organizational performance.

"We're thrilled to have been chosen as a winner of the TDWI Best Practices Award," stated Dr. Phyllis Chasser, senior data warehouse analyst, Education Technology Services, School Board of Broward County. "Brio's tools have played a vital role in our organization, enabling staff to gain key insights that are used to improve teaching and problem solving strategies. Brio has allowed our district to significantly increase our access to meaningful information, which translates to an increase in overall classroom performance and success."

Brio has recently secured a number of top honors for innovation and leadership, which include the: SAP FAQ Members' Choice Award, DM Review 100, Intelligent Enterprise Magazine's "Companies to Watch in 2002" list, Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 Award and the Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 Award. For more information on Brio's awards, please go to www.brio.com/press--room/awards.

About The Data Warehousing Institute

The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), a division of 101communications, is the premier provider of in-depth, high quality education and training in the data warehousing and business intelligence industry. TDWI is dedicated to educating business and information technology professionals about the strategies, techniques, and tools required to successfully design, build, and maintain data warehousing implementations, and also to the advancement of data warehousing research, knowledge transfer, and the professional development of its Members. TDWI sponsors and promotes a worldwide membership program, annual educational conferences, regional educational seminars, onsite courses, solution provider partnerships, awards programs for the best practices in data warehousing and innovative technologies, resourceful publications, an in-depth research program, and a comprehensive Web site.

About Brio Software

Brio Software is a leading provider of next-generation business intelligence tools that help Global 3000 companies achieve breakthrough business performance. Widely recognized as one of the easiest-to-use and deploy solutions in the industry, the Brio Performance Suite expands business intelligence beyond advanced query and analysis technologies to include powerful information delivery through enterprise-class reporting and personalized performance dashboards. Used by nearly 75 percent of the Fortune 100, Brio products empower individuals, workgroups and executives in an organization to turn enterprise information into actionable insight, so superior decisions and business performance result. Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Brio products and services can be found around the globe at www.brio.com.