SYBASE AND PRISM SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCE JOINT TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE

Data warehouse leader to support key components of SYBASE Warehouse WORKS

EMERYVILLE, Calif., August 7, 1995--Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise
Client/Server Company, and Prism Solutions, Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif.,
today announced a joint technology alliance that will integrate Prism's
leading data warehouse management software with key components of SYBASE
Warehouse WORKS, Sybase's industry-leading open framework for developing
and deploying data warehouses. 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. 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.

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 InformationCONNECT 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 who adhere to the Warehouse WORKS guidelines.

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 the 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, introduced in November 1994, provides the
industry's first complete solution for building client/server-based data
warehousing applications. The Sybase data warehouse solution helps
customers build data warehouse applications that: make information readily
available by assembling data systematically, transform data to a
consistent view for business usage, distribute data where needed, and
above all, make data accessible to users at any level. The SYBASE
Warehouse WORKS framework is an extension of the SYBASE Open Solutions
Program.

Sybase, Inc.

Sybase, Inc., is a worldwide leader in client/server software. Sybase
develops database, middleware and tools products for four major
client/server market segments: new media, on-line transaction processing,
data warehousing and mass deployment. The company's mission is to provide
its customers with an open, adaptable information systems architecture
that enables rapid business change. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA,
Sybase is the sixth largest independent software company in the world.
 
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