PRISM SOLUTIONS AND INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS PARTNER TO PROVIDE
INNOVATIVE-WAREHOUSE SOLUTION

THE DATA WAREHOUSING CONFERENCE, ORLANDO, Fla.--Feb.14, 1994-Prism
Solutions, Inc. and Innovative Systems, Inc. (ISI) today announced a
partnership for the launch of the Innovative-Warehouse--a new data
warehouse offering based on Prism's data warehouse management software and
ISI's customer information management software.

The Innovative-Warehouse solution automates the process of reengineering
and warehousing corporate data to serve the decision-support needs of
marketing, sales and customer service. It is distinguished by its
extremely high data integrity and applicability for both operational and
online analytical processing (OLAP) tools.

Data warehouses depend on source data from legacy and operational systems
to be migrated and converted to a database of consistent,
subject-oriented, historical information. The Innovative-Warehouse
solution, offered by Innovative Systems and available immediately,
addresses these component processes and ensures their success.

ISI's products improve the accuracy of customer information by
standardizing, consolidating and reformatting customer names, addresses
and relationships. Prism Warehouse Manager can then extract and integrate
this reengineered data to build a data warehouse in a client/server or
mainframe environment. Prism Warehouse Manager automates the data
conversions, summarizations, key changes, structural changes and
condensations needed to create an historical perspective of
enterprise-wide information.

"This partnership allows clients to harness data that was once isolated,
incompatible and inadequately structured for the kind of decision support
required both in the back office and in the field," said John Vallieres,
ISI's senior vice president and chief marketing officer. "The
Innovative-Warehouse solution will clean and consolidate current and
historical data to support sales, marketing and service efforts."

Jim Ashbrook, president of Prism Solutions, added, "One of the most crucial
elements involved in building a data warehouse is ensuring the timeliness,
accuracy and completeness of the source data that gets loaded into the
warehouse. ISI's data integrity products help companies standardize and
aggregate data in their operational systems, thus minimizing the amount of
work required to prepare data for warehouses. We are very pleased to be
partnering with ISI to help clients implement the highest quality data
warehouses."

About Prism Solutions

Prism Solutions is the leader in data warehouse management software for
building, maintaining and navigating data warehouses. Prism's products and
services provide the foundation for a variety of IT and business projects,
such as migration and conversion between different computing platforms,
reengineering legacy applications and business processes, implementing
client/server architectures and building decision-support systems. Prism's
customers include leading companies in the finance, health care,
insurance, manufacturing, public utilities, retail, telecommunications,
transportation and technology industries. Prism is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California.

About Innovative Systems

Founded in 1968, ISI is the world leader in customer information
management. ISI assists clients in building, populating, maintaining, and
accessing very large, very accurate databases. ISI is headquartered in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Prism Solutions Inc
480 Oakmead Parkway
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
408-481-0240,  fax 408-481-0260

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