SYBASE AND PRISM SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCE JOINT TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE

Data warehouse leader to support key components of SYBASE Warehouse WORKS

EMERYVILLE, CA, August 7, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise
Client/Server Company, and Prism Solutions, Inc., of Sunnyvale, CA, today
announced a joint development agreement that will integrate Prism's
leading data warehouse management software with key components of SYBASE
Warehouse WORKS. Warehouse WORKS provides an architecture for integrating
heterogeneous products that cover the broad spectrum of data warehousing
requirements into one coherent solution.

Prism's products and services greatly reduce the time it takes to build,
maintain, and navigate data warehouses. The Prism Warehouse Manager
generates programs to extract data from source databases, integrates the
data from the various sources, and then transforms and loads the
integrated data to a choice of target databases, including SYBASE. An
extensive selection of built-in transformations allows users to perform
the data conversions, summarizations, key changes, structural changes, and
condensations needed to create the historical perspective of
enterprise-wide information that is critical for trend analysis and
business decision making.

The Prism Directory Manager is designed to enhance the understanding and
use of warehouse information by allowing users to build, store, and
navigate an integrated Information Directory of data warehouse meta data.
By providing customizable views of warehouse information expressed in both
business and technical terms, Prism Directory Manager helps users
understand the contents of a data warehouse and how they have changed over
time.

"Sybase has based its Warehouse WORKS on an open architecture approach so
that customers building data warehouse applications can avoid the hassles
of manually working around unintegrated tools and products," said Mike
Forster, president of Sybase's Information CONNECT Division. "The
integration of Prism's software and Warehouse WORKS is an example of how
the process of building data warehouses is greatly simplified by
leveraging the strengths of both companies: Prism providing data
integration, transformation, and meta data management; and Sybase offering
server technologies, interoperability, and data movement."

"This alliance and the planned integrated products will greatly simplify
data warehouse implementation for our common customers," said Jim
Ashbrook, president and CEO of Prism Solutions. "We are pleased to
announce this technology agreement with Sybase and are looking forward to
leveraging components of Warehouse WORKS such as the Enterprise CONNECT
interoperability middleware, the Replication Server distribution
infrastructure, and SYBASE IQ for fast interactive warehouse access."

Prism to Populate SYBASE IQ for Interactive Warehouses

Setting new standards for price/performance in data warehousing, SYBASE IQ
is an optional extension to SYBASE SQL Server specifically designed for
interactive decision support. Prism plans to build functionality into
Prism Warehouse Manager that will more efficiently load transformed data
into SYBASE IQ databases. The data can then be queried and analyzed by all
tools vendors.

Open Client and Replication Server Support

Prism Solution and Sybase are also announcing two other areas of technology
development. The first effort will leverage the capabilities of Sybase's
Open Client. Open Client is a library of routines and services that allow
applications to communicate easily with SYBASE SQL Server and with over 20
relational and non-relational databases through Sybase's Enterprise
CONNECT. The second effort will leverage Sybase's Replication Server,
which synchronizes replicate copies of data on heterogeneous platforms
throughout a client/server network. Third-party products can call into
Replication Server to leverage its reliable distribution and data movement
capabilities.

About Prism Solutions

Prism Solutions is a leader in data warehouse management software for
building, maintaining and navigating data warehouses. Prism Solutions'
products and services provide the foundation for a variety of IT and
business projects, such as building decision-support systems, implementing
client/server architectures, migrating and converting data between
different computing platforms, and reengineering legacy applications and
business processes. Prism Solutions' customers include leading companies
in the finance, health care, insurance, manufacturing, public utilities,
retail, telecommunications, transportation, and technology industries.
Prism Solutions' corporate headquarters are located at 1000 Hamlin Court,
Sunnyvale, Calif., 94089; tel: (408) 752-1888; fax: (408) 752-1875.

SYBASE Warehouse WORKS

SYBASE Warehouse WORKS, announced in November of 1994, is the industry's
first complete and open solution for building client/server data
warehousing solutions. Warehouse WORKS helps customers rapidly build and
cost-effectively deploy interactive warehouse applications which: assemble
data from diverse on-line data sources, transform data to a consistent
business view, distribute and manage data, and provide interactive access
with the broadest choice of industry-standard tools. The Warehouse WORKS
Alliance Program, with over 50 vendors and growing, is currently the
largest collection of integrated solutions for Data Warehousing in the
industry.

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc. is a worldwide leader in client/server software. Sybase, and
its wholly owned subsidiary Powersoft Corporation, are focused on four
major market segments: mass deployment, on-line transaction processing,
data warehousing, and electronic commerce.

Sybase's software products -- database, middleware and tools -- provide
customers with desktop to enterprise solutions. The company's mission is
to provide its customers with an open, adaptable information systems
architecture that enables them to develop and deliver complete information
systems solutions to facilitate rapid business change. Headquartered in
Emeryville, CA, Sybase is the sixth largest independent software company
in the world.

Sybase Inc
6475 Christie Ave
Emeryville, CA 04608
510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441
 
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