Prism Solutions and Andyne Announce Marketing Alliance

November 2, 1994 -- Phoenix, AZ -- The Data Warehousing Conference--Andyne
Computing Limited and Prism Solutions, Inc., announced an agreement today
to jointly market their respective products to provide the data access
market with a comprehensive data warehouse solution. Initially, lead
sharing and team selling to strategic accounts will be the emphasis of the
strategic partnership. The two companies will jointly participate in a
variety of marketing activities, such as seminars and trade shows.

Andyne's products create unique Managed Query Environment (MQE)
applications. Andyne GQL, an end-user query and reporting application, and
Andyne PaBLO, a multidimensional decision support application, balance
end-user query, analysis, and reporting needs with Information Services
(IS) needs for security and mediated access. Unlike other approaches,
Andyne's MQE products provide a unique, dynamic, visual interface easily
customizable to business needs.

Prism Solutions provides data warehouse management software. Prism's
products and services enable companies to build an architected database of
consistent, subject-oriented, historical information for decision support
applications, data access and business reporting. The product suite
automatically generates code to extract operational data and external 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 on mainframe and client/server platforms. An extensive selection
of built-in transformations allows users to perform the data conversions,
summarizations, key changes, structural changes and condensations needed
to create an historical perspective of enterprise-wide information for
analysis and decision making.

Prism Warehouse Manager also provides automated capabilities for capturing
changes to source data, performing updates and implementing ongoing
iterations of the data warehouse. Additionally, the product collects and
maintains meta data, or information about the data in the warehouse,
providing users with an enterprise-wide, historical record of their
changes and enhancements to the data warehouse over time.

President & C.E.O, A. Cameron Thompson of Andyne, says, "Our products are a
perfect fit with Prism's. With Andyne GQL and Andyne PaBLO and the Prism
Warehouse Manager, users can access both the data warehouse and the meta
data through a visual, intuitive interface. Our visual GQL data models are
ideal for working with the Inmon Generic Data Models, thereby providing a
very powerful combination for end users."

Jim Ashbrook, president of Prism, said, "Prism Warehouse Manager extracts,
integrates, and transforms large amounts of data. Together, Andyne and
Prism empower database administrators and end-users alike. We've got
highly complimentary products, which provide our customers with a one-stop
data warehousing solution."

Prism Solutions, Inc., the leader in data warehouse management software,
makes it easier to manage, understand, and use business information. Built
on the foundation of the information architecture developed by W.H. Inmon,
the company provides products and services optimized for information
technology professionals and business managers. Prism's data warehouse
management products are used by leading finance, insurance, manufacturing,
retail, public utilities, telecommunications, transportation and
high-technology companies.

Andyne, a privately held corporation, was founded in 1976 and has over
38,000 installations worldwide. Andyne manufactures and markets MQE tools
to fulfill enterprise needs for query and reporting and decision support
systems. Andyne also provides consulting services, training, and technical
support.

Andyne Computing Limited
552 Princess Street
Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 1C7
613-548-4355,  fax 613-548-7801
Internet: marketing@andyne.on.ca

Prism Solutions, Inc.
480 Oakmead Parkway
Sunnyvale, California U.S.A. 94086
408-481-0240,  Fax 408481-0260

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