BRIO.ENTERPRISE ª. Simply Powerful Business Intelligence

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1 BRIO.ENTERPRISE ª Simply Powerful Business Intelligence

2 B2E Successful CEOs propel their business ahead of competition by giving everyone in the enterprise from top analysts to the shipping department real-time information to manage the top line, improve business processes, make better decisions, and meet customers' needs and expectations. It s not a matter of win or lose, it s about survival. B2B The effective use of information reaches far beyond the firewall. Deliver dynamic dashboards that share your business intelligence and analytic capabilities with your business partners, suppliers and distributors for real-time, fact-based decision making that will align action across the supply chain and enable your company to compete at e-speed. B2C With competition a click away, customer-centric companies win. And that means not only exceeding their expectations, but knowing what they expect before they do. Give them self-service access to the information they need, deliver reports without fail, and when customers call, have the answers ready, regardless of who picks up the phone. Not only will you improve customer satisfaction, you will keep them coming back. ON-DEMAND ANALYTICS FOR THE VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE

3 e-business Intelligence "E-Business the evolution of Internet commerce beyond the simple processing of purchasing transactions is one of the most critical considerations facing today's global enterprise." Aberdeen Group Businesses that hesitate or resist implementing an e-business strategy today will inevitably be gambling with their ability to compete, or even survive, tomorrow. The rush to e-business, however, places tremendous pressure on today's enterprise and the risks associated with failure are greater than ever. Organizations need the ability to respond at e-speed, accelerate their time to market, and extend their ability to meet increasing customer expectations. All of this while learning to succeed and survive in this entirely new economy. Information has always been a critical component to running modern business effectively. And in this new economy, the ultimate winners will be the organizations that extract the most value from their information assets. The best of the best will make their information more accessible and more applicable to the needs of every user up and down the supply chain. To achieve this, they will deliver on-demand analytics for the virtual enterprise. This means organizations will provide dynamic dashboards including single-click query, analysis and reporting to every user in the extended enterprise. Not only within the four walls of the organization, but also outside the firewall to trading partners, suppliers, and customers. The key to delivering on-demand analytics is integrated, enterprise-class business intelligence software. By leveraging business intelligence to glean insightful information about market trends, customers, competitors, and more, businesses of any shape, size, and focus can arm themselves with the information they need to be more competitive, customercentric, and responsive to change. And that's exactly what Brio.Enterprise delivers. ROBERT FRANCIS GROUP. Organizations that are capable of understanding customers' needs and requirements as well as being able to deliver information, products, and services 24 x 7 via a variety of channels will become dominant players in today's highly competitive market. e-business intelligence tools not only empower the organization to better understand its customers but it enables them to supply critical information and analysis to partners, suppliers and customers on an as-needed basis.

4 Simply Powerful Business Intellige ONE INTEGRATED SOLUTION. Designed to address the unique demands of today's e-business environment, Brio.Enterprise combines query, analysis and reporting into one easy-to-use solution. With dynamic dashboards delivering key business data at e-speed, Brio.Enterprise empowers everyone within your organization to analyze business performance and market dynamics as well as better manage customer needs and expectations. In addition, it enables you to deliver critical information and insight to your B2B partners, suppliers, and customers when and where they need it. From ad hoc query to interactive analysis to report creation, the Brio.Enterprise suite of products share the same intuitive interface and file structure connected or disconnected via the Web or client/server so users are up and running fast and can share their analysis and reports with any other Brio user on the planet. That makes for truly effective on-demand analytics for the virtual enterprise. EASIEST TO USE. Brio.Enterprise has a highly-intuitive client interface with an easy-to-navigate environment for data exploration and decision making. With a consistent design paradigm for query, pivot, charting, and reporting, users at any level move fluidly through cascading dashboards finding answers fast. Trends and anomalies are automatically highlighted, and robust formatting tools enable users to easily build free-form, presentation-quality reports for broad-scale publishing across the organization. The powerful SQL query engine processes complex queries against a wide array of relational, multidimensional, and Webbased data sources with simple drag-and-drop functionality. Web and client/server users query data from multiple data sources in a single document for side-by-side analysis on the fly or from pre-built data models. Information is retrieved quickly and relational joins are already in place. With Brio.Enterprise, complex analytic functions are simplified with drag-and-drop data navigation users slice and dice data at will. Flexible OLAP analysis includes ad hoc drill-anywhere, as well as pre-defined drill paths and drill-to-detail as determined by data models stored in a repository. Some say Brio.Enterprise is so powerful, it s easy to use. J.R. SIMPLOT. Brio.Enterprise, integrated with Brio's information portal technology, is helping us to optimize the bi-directional flow of information across our entire information supply chain, which ultimately leads to faster, better-informed decision making for everyone Simplot's sales force and management team as well as our trading partners, suppliers, and customers. William Friend, Group Vice President BRIO.ENTERPRISE POWERFUL ANALYTIC DASHBOARDS THAT DELIVER

5 nce for Every Desktop BRIO.ENTERPRISE PROVIDES: The most integrated and complete solution available, delivering a comprehensive product suite that meets all your query, analysis, and reporting needs. A highly-intuitive user interface that accelerates end users' learning curves and lowers training and deployment costs. Support for all types of users from front-line managers and power users to executives and business analysts. Easy administration and support, which means you can deliver the right information to the right users with the right products without impacting existing IT resources and budgets. FASTEST TO DEPLOY AND SCALE. With a proven track record of successful customer implementations in Global 1000 corporations, Internet/high-tech companies, and government and educational institutions, Brio.Enterprise has demonstrated time and again that it is the fastest business intelligence solution to deploy and easiest to scale for a growing business. From its inception, Brio.Enterprise has been designed for users and built for IT thousands of users can be up and running in record time with minimal impact on IT resources. For example, Brio.Enterprise reads existing metadata so there are no proprietary semantic layers to build making it the fastest deploying solution on the market. Once deployed, database changes are immediately distributed throughout the user community so users always have the most current data available. Zero administration client technology prompts users to update their software, and centralized administration makes enterprise maintenance a breeze. Together with integrated client tools, Brio.Enterprise combines "push" and "pull" servers in a secure, flexible, and scalable environment with fail over and load balancing strictly in place. ANALYTIC APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT. Analytic applications enable organizations to capture and package the knowledge and metrics utilized by top analysts so they can be easily used by others in the organization. Presented in analytic dashboards, these applications deliver actionable insight to decision makers including relevant business content in context and key performance indicators so members of the virtual enterprise can align their actions and make faster, smarter decisions. Brio.Enterprise includes an open application development environment so developers can build custom, Web-enabled analytic applications in-house. Our application dashboards display parameter-driven, thumbnail views into the business that activate instantly into full charts and pivots for further analysis. Brio.Enterprise makes it easy for every organization to leverage their top metrics across the organization to more effectively manage the top line. However, if you would rather deploy a preconfigured application, we have those, too. Brio.Inform is a packaged application built upon Brio.Enterprise s own development platform. Brio.Impact delivers a robust, comprehensive analytic infrastructure for optimizing revenue and managing the top line in high-tech manufacturing environments. Analytic applications are the next wave in business intelligence it s how companies are able to respond quickly to change and turn on a dime to capture new business opportunities. THE RIGHT INFORMATION TO THE RIGHT USERS AT THE RIGHT TIME.

6 Brio.Enterprise Components ONE SOLUTION FOR THE ENTIRE ENTERPRISE Brio.Enterprise delivers relevant information in real time to those who need it from front-line managers who need a split-second view of the business to power users who analyze large volumes of data stored in a data warehouse to external business partners who need up-to-the-minute reports via their browser. With one integrated interface that works the same whether connected via client/server or the Web, users of any level have one tool to learn and use for all of their business intelligence needs. Client/Server-Based Tools BRIOQUERY DESIGNERª Delivers query, analysis, and reporting capabilities and centralized solution administration for developers, DBAs, and system administrators. BRIOQUERY EXPLORERª Delivers query, analysis, and reporting capabilities for power users who need to direct access data sources or to explore the information organized in pre-built data models stored in the repository. BRIOQUERY NAVIGATORª Provides simplified query, analysis, and reporting for analysts who need more structured access to the data stored in the repository but full analysis and reporting functionality. Web-Based Tools BRIO.INSIGHTª Delivers query, analysis, and reporting functionality within a Web browser for intranet, Internet, or extranet access to information delivered via the OnDemand Server. Based on user profiles or report-level security, the client environment adapts in five stages from full query, analysis, and reporting with data refresh to static report viewing. BRIO.QUICKVIEWª Offers simplified report viewing and data refresh for users who need to view published, formatted reports within their browser a perfect way to publish analysis results to the masses for up-to-the-minute communication. BRIO.FREEVIEWª Gives everyone in the world the ability to view Brio.Enterprise reports at no cost. Push and Pull Servers THE BROADCAST SERVERª automates scheduled query processing and report notification, and distributes the results via , the Web, networks, and printers. Users build queries and reports and schedule them to be processed based on date, time, or event such as a database update. Reports with or without saved result sets are published to specified users or groups of users who can then perform additional analysis without ever hitting the database. THE ONDEMAND SERVERª enables Brio.Insight users to query via the Web in an adaptive client environment. Built-in "zero administration" technology alerts users to install the latest version of Brio.Insight keeping every user up-to-date without IT intervention. More scalable than ever, the OnDemand Server fully supports load balancing and fail-over across a cluster of servers. And Adaptive Reporting offers additional, report-level security with client functionality that adapts based on user or group profiles. INTEGRATED QUERY, OLAP AND REPORTING WITH ONE-STOP ANALYTIC DASHBOARDS

7 BRIO.ENTERPRISE KEY FEATURES Integrates query, analysis, and reporting capabilities for Web and client/server environments Combines push and pull server technology for automatic query processing and report distribution, zero administration, and dynamic query over the Web Enables developers to build dynamic, customized analytic applications to capture intellectual capital and best practices Supports an extensive array of languages critical to global e-business, including English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Spanish Supports queries to relational, multidimensional, and operational databases Supports both pre-defined and "drill anywhere" paths IT/ADMINISTRATORS BRIOQUERY Requires no additional semantic layer; Brio.Enterprise directly reads existing metadata Enables administrators to display metadata information to increase decision making efficiencies Tightly integrates with Brio.Portal to provide self-service access to corporate information Incorporates information from multiple data sources into one document for side-by-side, relational analysis Provides automatic database synchronization to distribute repository changes to all users, without requiring IT intervention Enables administrators to create master data models Includes built-in usage auditing to enable IT to analyze user activity, determine peak activity, and fine tune database performance Leverages database and Internet security protocols Stores key data in a centralized repository Supports user-, workgroup- and report-level security Provides scalable architecture with load balancing and fail over support across server clusters BUSINESS TO EMPLOYEE BRIOQUERY Query, Analysis & Reporting + Administration Query, Analysis & Reporting Broadcast Server OnDemand Server Web Query, Analysis & Reporting Report Viewing Analysis & Reporting BUSINESS TO EMPLOYEE BRIO.INSIGHT BUSINESS TO CUSTOMER BRIO.QUICKVIEW And/Or BUSINESS TO WORLD BRIO.FREEVIEW BUSINESS TO BUSINESS BRIO.INSIGHT Brio.Enterprise offers the right tools for the diverse business intelligence needs of users across the virtual enterprise.

8 THE FIRST COMPLETE, ANALYTIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR E-BUSINESS. Brio ONE delivers on-demand analytics and timely information to everyone who needs it to make better business decisions. Brio ONE meets the complete range of decision-processing needs including those of internal employees as well as external customers, integrated supply chain partners and distribution alliances. Brio ONE combines integrated business intelligence, enterprise reporting, comprehensive information portals, and analytic applications for intranet, extranet, client/server, and hosted application environments. Brio ONE helps organizations derive higher business value from their B2B information sources, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), sales force automation (SFA), and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, production systems, analytic applications and business spreadsheets, data marts, data warehouses, intranets, extranets, and others. With Brio ONE, organizations can deliver analytics on-demand and right now insight to users across the virtual enterprise so they can be more competitive, customer-centric, and responsive as a group to market shifts and new opportunities. The Brio ONE analytic solution is comprised of the following integrated product line solutions: BRIO.ENTERPRISE ª, an integrated suite of powerful and easy-to-use business intelligence tools for query, OLAP analysis, and analytical reporting across the virtual enterprise. BRIO.REPORT ª, the backbone of Brio ONE and the industry's premier enterprise data transformation and reporting environment delivering unmatched performance, scalability, flexibility, and reliability. BRIO.PORTAL ª, the most comprehensive enterprise information portal for dynamic, personalized, self-service, and relevant access to any enterprise or B2B information source, no matter where it resides. BRIO.APPLICATIONS ª, a comprehensive and robust analytic application suite designed to deliver a flexible, iterative, and evolutionary framework for managing the top line and optimizing revenues and business performance. USA HEADQUARTERS Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA CANADA x435 LATIN AMERICA ASIA PACIFIC JAPAN EMEA FRANCE GERMANY UNITED KINGDOM Brio Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Brio is a registered trademark of Brio Technology. Brio.Enterprise, Brio.Report, Brio.Portal, Brio ONE, BrioQuery, BrioQuery Designer, BrioQuery Explorer, BrioQuery Navigator, Brio.Insight, Brio.Quickview, Brio Enterprise Server, Brio OnDemand Server, Brio Broadcast Server and On-Demand Analytics for the Virtual Enterprise are all trademarks of Brio Technology. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders.