LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB) today announced a strategic partnership with Pulsar Data
Systems, Inc. of Lanham, Maryland to deliver data warehousing solutions
designed to meet the needs of governmental, financial services and insurance
organizations.
Pulsar Data Systems is a leading provider of business systems integration
solutions including desktop systems, applications and services. As part of
the agreement, Pulsar will resell Red Brick DecisionScape(SM) products in its
strategic focus on the delivery of decision support and data mining solutions.
Pulsar Data Systems is a new channel partner in the Red Brick Solutions
Partner Program, designed to support active service and application solutions
partners who are dedicated to fostering rapid and superior decision support
solutions for small-to-large businesses.
Red Brick DecisionScape includes integrated products, services,
methodology and partnerships designed specifically for data warehousing and
decision support projects. Red Brick's history of expertise and innovative
technology for data warehousing provides a rich and comprehensive base on
which to build successful business analytic solutions. Red Brick
DecisionScape will power the customized data warehousing product and service
offerings delivered through Pulsar.
"We are very pleased to provide a high-end technical platform designed
specifically for data warehousing that will support Pulsar Data System's
customized solutions for their targeted industries," said Paul Rodwick, vice
president of Marketing at Red Brick. "Pulsar will be able to deliver a
broader set of business solutions through the incorporation of Red Brick's
leading data warehousing and data mining technology."
"Red Brick's products deliver cutting edge technology which will help our
clients strategically improve their business through superior
decision-making," said Kevin Linck, vice president and director of Business
Development at Pulsar Data Systems. "Our system solutions now offer
end-to-end products and expertise, from system analysis and network design to
leading edge knowledge management and business analysis."
The Red Brick -- Pulsar Data Systems Partnership Agreement
The Red Brick -- Pulsar Data Systems partnership makes all Red Brick
products available for sale through Pulsar's organization. In addition, Red
Brick and Pulsar will collaborate on various marketing and sales activities.
Red Brick offers software products designed specifically for data
warehousing. Red Brick Warehouse is an open relational database management
system built from the ground up to support data warehousing. Red Brick
Warehouse offers significant capabilities for a data warehousing environment
such as:
* A family of leading, unique join and indexing technologies
* A high-performance loader
* Red Brick Data Mine(TM), server-integrated data mining
* Red Brick Vista(TM), server-integrated aggregate navigation and
management
* Intelligent parallelism
* Red Brick Warehouse Administrator(TM), a GUI administration tool
* Real-time data updates with query concurrency
* Superior support for very large, complex data models and high numbers
of users
Red Brick Formation(TM) is a data extraction, transformation and movement
tool designed to ease complex data transformations for large amounts of data
in an easy-to-use, graphical, data flow paradigm.
Red Brick also offers SQL-BackTrack(TM) for Red Brick Warehouse, a leading
backup and recovery solution for very large database administration
requirements.
About Pulsar Data Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1983, Pulsar Data Systems, Inc., based in Lanham, Maryland, is
an established systems integration company specializing in providing computer
hardware, peripherals and software through strategic partnerships with some of
the leading vendors in the market today.
Pulsar provides value-added solutions by linking its total integration
expertise in systems analysis, network design, system implementation,
maintenance and support services to every product sold. With revenues of more
than $160 million, Pulsar has experienced exceptional growth, winning a place
in the Fast Fifty roster of companies designated as the fastest growing in the
Washington region.
William W. Davis, president and founder of Pulsar Data Systems, was
recently featured in Fortune Magazine as one of the country's top Black
business leaders. Pulsar Data Systems is the fifth largest minority-owned
firm in the United States.
About Red Brick
Red Brick Systems, Inc. is a premier provider of data warehousing
solutions. Through Red Brick DecisionScape, a comprehensive, integrated
environment of products, services, methodology and partnerships, Red Brick
helps its customers and partners improve the quality, speed and accuracy of
their business decision-making. Red Brick's leading expertise and innovative,
server-integrated technology deliver scalable decision support solutions for
data warehousing, data marts, OLAP and data mining.
Information about Red Brick is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.redbrick.com. News releases and corporate background information may also
be retrieved by fax. For an index of available materials, please call
(800) 758-5804, and enter PIN #105756.
Red Brick and the Red Brick logo are registered trademarks, Red Brick
Vista, Red Brick Formation, Red Brick Data Mine and Red Brick Warehouse
Administrator are trademarks and Red Brick DecisionScape is a service mark and
a trademark of Red Brick Systems, Inc. SQL-BackTrack is a trademark of BMC
Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property
of their respective holders.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Red Brick's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We refer you to the "Risk
Factors" in the most recent Annual Report filed with the SEC on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 1997 and the most recent Quarterly Report filed
with the SEC on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1998. These
documents contain and identify important factors that could cause the actual
results to differ materially from those contained herein, including, without
limitation: Competition; Sales and Marketing Repositioning; Dependence on New
Products and Rapid Technological Change; Feasibility of In-Process Technology;
Dependence upon Key Personnel; and Dependence on Continued Growth of the Data
Warehouse Market.
SOURCE Red Brick Systems, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Carolyn Hughes of Red Brick Systems, Inc.,
408-399-7216, chughes@redbrick.com; or Andrew Schreiner of Pulsar
Data Systems, 301-459-2650
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