Red Brick DecisionScape(SM) Offerings Combined With Perot Systems' Integration
And Consulting Create Outsourcing Solution for Data Warehouse Projects
LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB) today announced a strategic partnership with Perot Systems of
Dallas, Texas, a leading information technology services and business
solutions company. The partnership makes Red Brick DecisionScape(SM) products
available to Perot Systems' clients who require high-end data warehousing
solutions.
Perot Systems is a new services 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's offerings
complement Perot Systems' decision support client engagements where the focus
is on the delivery of analytic solutions designed to drive the client's
business forward quickly and strategically.
"We're very pleased to be able to extend our analytic solutions to
customers through Perot Systems' leading information technology service
organization," said Paul Rodwick, vice president of Marketing at Red Brick.
"Perot Systems' superior reputation and focus on improving customer business
success are synergistic with Red Brick's overall strategy. This alignment
will help Perot Systems quickly implement client projects that require the
best technology and expertise for the job in an outsourced environment."
"Red Brick's innovative technology will help us extend our ability to help
clients strategically improve their business through the use of superior data
warehousing solutions," said Kay Madnani, director of Perot Systems' Business
Intelligence Service Line. "Our outsourcing solutions include experienced
program management professionals and a rapid implementation approach, which
will be supported by Red Brick's products designed for decision support."
The Red Brick -- Perot Systems Partnership Agreement
The partnership makes Red Brick products available for sale through Perot
Systems' consulting organization.
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.
Red Brick and Perot Systems Offer Complementary Solutions at Premier, Inc.
Red Brick and Perot Systems each participate in business solutions at
Premier, Inc., the largest healthcare alliance enterprise in the United
States. Perot Systems recently initiated an outsourcing agreement with
Premier Practice Management (PPM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier, Inc.,
to provide technical services in support of its national physician management
line of business. As PPM's technology partner, Perot Systems provides a range
of business applications including +MEDIC Vision(R).
Premier, Inc. was recognized recently by The Data Warehousing Institute
for Market Vantage(TM), its innovative healthcare application that enables
hospitals and healthcare systems to quickly access detailed healthcare data to
help them reduce costs, develop integrated delivery systems, manage technology
and share knowledge. Market Vantage gives Premier's members the ability to
analyze large volumes of comparative medical data stored in Red Brick
Warehouse. Using Market Vantage, Premier and its members can quickly
recognize how they perform both financially and medically as compared to other
hospitals nationwide.
"Both Red Brick and Perot Systems are considered strategic to our business
operations and competitive advantage," said Scott Morris, director of
Marketing and Business Development at Premier. "We believe the two companies
offer synergistic strengths in product and expertise which could be
significantly advantageous to organizations seeking high-value data
warehousing solutions."
About Perot Systems
Perot Systems, based in Dallas, Texas, is a leading information technology
services and business solutions company with 1997 revenues of approximately
$780 million. Perot Systems serves clients in various industries including
financial services, healthcare, energy and travel and transportation with more
than 5,600 employees in North America, Europe and Asia.
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, or chughes@redbrick.com; or Kay Madnani of Perot
Systems, 408-268-4251, or kay.madnani@ps.net
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