SOFTWARE INTERFACES JOINS RED BRICK SYSTEMS' PAVER PROGRAM

Next-Generation Report Writer will be Integrated with Red Brick Warehouse
VPT

HOUSTON, TX, May 8, 1995 - Software Interfaces today announced that it has
become a Red Brick PaVER Partner. As an Interlock Partner in Red Brick's
PaVER program, Software Interfaces will integrate its next-generation
report writer, ProReports, with Red Brick Warehouse VPT and will provide
native support for Red Brick's RISQL extensions.

ProReports is a next-generation, client/server report writing solution for
Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, and XtMotif on most major databases and
platforms, from desktops to workstations to mainframes. ProReports allows
multiple queries from multiple different databases - all in the same
report.

Red Brick Warehouse VPT, a client/server data warehouse RDBMS, allows
business management applications to be developed and deployed quickly; to
query very large databases of information gathered from disparate sources;
to provide the best access to both consolidated and detailed business
information; and to simply run fast. Red Brick's SQL extensions provide a
means of expressing common business questions including rankings and
moving averages.

"Because of their complex reporting needs, data warehouse users require a
very flexible and powerful report writer such as ProReports," says AJ
Brown, Red Brick's vice president of marketing. "ProReports allows users
to design a report on a client and then run it on any client or server
while retaining the formatting attributes."

ProReports offers report design on the client in structured mode (formatted
with place holders) or in results mode (all or partial data sets), or with
a combination of both. The user can then choose to run reports on the
client or a server. This design allows the user to optimally leverage the
server's power to process the queries and create the reports; lets the
users free up their desktops for other uses; and reduces heavy network
traffic such as can be caused by queries returning one million rows of
data.

Red Brick Warehouse VPT users typically compare historical data to identify
patterns and exceptions. However, there are times when users also need the
most current information from the transaction database. ProReports allows
users to transparently collect data from high-performance Red Brick data
warehouses and transactional sources, and combine the results in the same
report. No other tool offers an easier or faster means of combining such
information.

"ProReports allows Red Brick users to perform multiple queries in the same
report," says Rahul Mehta, President of Software Interfaces. "For example,
users can create a single report that begins with summary findings and
then provides associated detail from another segment of the data
warehouse."

Red Brick Systems

Red Brick Systems is the leading provider of relational database products
and services for data warehouse applications. The company, based in Los
Gatos, California, specializes in software products used for fast,
accurate, and confident business decisions where large client/server
databases are the norm, usually tens of gigabytes in size with hundreds of
millions of records. These applications require historical context and
accurate, timely analysis of complex data relationships for both
consolidated and detailed business information.

Software Interfaces

Software Interfaces, headquartered in Houston, Texas, has been providing
powerful database access tools since 1985. Its software solutions are
currently in use by thousands of users in the Fortune 500. SQLASSIST,
Software Interfaces' flagship product, was judged to be the best ad hoc
query tool available according to Dr. Paul Dorsey, President of the
International Ad Hoc Query SIG, "SQLASSIST is a highly polished,
well-planned product... The great number of advanced features made it a
winner for novice and power users," said Dorsey. ProReports, just released
by Software Interfaces, is its breakthrough, next-generation report writer
that is setting the new standard for the report writing class.

Software Interfaces Inc
1400 Broadfield, Suite 600, Park 10
Houston, TX 77084
713-492-0707,  fax 713-492-0725

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