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BRIO SOFTWARE PRODUCTS TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY SPHINX

Brio Software Inc, a leading provider of next-generation business intelligence tools, recently announced that Sphinx, one of the UK's leading independent IT distributors, will become a value added distributor (VAD) for Brio Software's products in the UK. Effective immediately, Sphinx's resellers can now offer the new Brio Performance Suite 8 to their end users who need an easy-to-use, integrated business intelligence solution. By adding Sphinx as a VAD, Brio will immediately grow its channel distribution by 1000%.

"Adding Sphinx as a VAD is the cornerstone to our new channel expansion effort," said Jim Sampins, UK sales director for Brio Software. "Sphinx is one of the largest IT distributors in the UK, and we are excited to have been chosen as their business intelligence solution of choice. Sphinx's unique focus and expertise on the database market ensures that Sphinx's resellers will be able to provide their end users with a solution that can quickly derive valuable insight into their data, regardless of where that data is stored."

Sphinx's resellers have significant investments in database technologies and need a tool for extracting intelligence contained within those databases. Sphinx and Brio will work together on direct marketing programmes, telemarketing efforts and are planning to jointly create workshops for new Brio Performance Suite 8 customers.

"Sphinx is offering the Brio Performance Suite because it works across all the major database platforms," said Mark Hatton, managing director for Sphinx. "Brio's depth of products and ease-of-use mean that within a matter of days, rather than weeks, end users can see an increased return on their current database investments. Brio's remarkable ease-of-use, flexibility and quick time-to-value are why we have chosen to offer the Brio Performance Suite as our business intelligence solution."