New Partners Reinforce Red Brick's Performance Leadership

     LOS GATOS, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(R) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB), The Data Warehouse Company, today announced the expansion of
its industry-leading PaVER partner roster with the addition of Cayenne
Software Inc., Infospace, Pine Cone Systems, Sagent Technology, Inc. and SPSS
Inc.
    Red Brick's PaVER program, with more than 120 participants, is the largest
and fastest growing partner program in the data warehouse market. The program
provides a comprehensive offering of data warehouse tool partners for
customers who want maximum flexibility and choice in building data warehouse
applications. PaVER vendors are "best-of-class" developers of analysis and
design, OLAP, decision support, executive information and statistical analysis
tools and data warehousing utilities.
    Red Brick's open infrastructure in products and industry relationships
benefits its customers by enabling them to choose from a wide range of
complimentary tools and support. PaVER vendors' participation in Red Brick's
overall data warehouse strategy, including joint product planning and
development, provide customers with proven, reliable solutions.
    "Red Brick is pleased to add these innovative and exciting companies to
our PaVER program," said Chris Erickson, Red Brick president and CEO. "These
companies all represent a commitment to performance and technological
excellence that complement Red Brick's vision. Working together, Red Brick and
its PaVER partners can offer Red Brick customers unrivaled performance,
flexibility and the industry's fastest return on investment."

    Cayenne Software, Inc.
    Cayenne Software specializes in the analysis and design of application and
database solutions. Cayenne designs and markets a set of tools that allow
customers to extract existing data structures by reverse engineering them into
logical business models and then forward engineering them into a physical
warehouse design. Cayenne works with Red Brick to provide the blueprint for
highly successful and customized data warehouses across a wide variety of
industries. "Cayenne's strength lies in our ability to eliminate potential
pitfalls that can occur in the rush to implement robust data warehousing,"
said Massood Zarrabian, senior vice president of product operations. "Working
with Red Brick, customers are assured of not only a workable, scalable and
forward-thinking data warehousing model, but also of a system that lives up to
our customers' highest quality standards while meeting performance
expectations." More information on Cayenne Software can be found at:
http://www.cayennesoft.com.

    Infospace
    Infospace is a leading provider of server-based intranet decision support
solutions for the enterprise written entirely in Java. With Infospace,
companies can access and analyze data from any relational or multidimensional
database, data mart or data warehouse, and quickly and inexpensively publish
that information to hundreds, even thousands of users over the Web.
"Leveraging Red Brick's high performance and scalable data warehouse
structure, SpaceSQL delivers dynamic query, reporting, charting and analysis
capabilities through a common browser interface which requires no client
software," said Stan Wang, president and CEO of Infospace. "With native,
point-and-click access to Red Brick Warehouse, SpaceSQL is a cost-effective
way to leverage customers' investment in their data warehouse, enabling more
users to make better decisions faster." More information on Infospace can be
found at: http://www.infospace-inc.com.

    Pine Cone Systems
    Pine Cone Systems provides an integrated set of data warehouse
administration tools and utilities to help database administrators better
utilize data in the Decision Support System (DSS) environment. Pine Cone
solutions include Data Usage Tracker, Charge Back Manager, Refreshment Tracker
and Data Content Tracker. Working together with Red Brick Warehouse, these
tools help to identify usage patters, identify the "freshness" of the data by
providing update information and provide data quality checks. This information
then enables database administrators or sophisticated users to improve the
quality of data, improve data reliability and streamline frequent activities.
"We are pleased to partner with Red Brick Systems to provide a combined
solution which improves the quality of data administration in data
warehousing," said Bill Inmon, chief technology officer and chairman of the
board. "Red Brick does an excellent job of providing a focused data
warehousing solution, and together, the two companies are providing products
which help improve data warehouse performance." More information on Pine Cone
Systems can be found at: http://www.pine-cone.com.

    Sagent Technology, Inc.
    Sagent Technology develops and markets the Sagent Data Mart Solution, a
family of integrated products for populating, managing and accessing data
marts. Sergeant's high-performance products can be used to populate a data
mart, based on Red Brick Warehouse, as well as to give end users access to a
Red Brick-based data mart. "Sagent's Data Mart Solution offers the key
benefits of today's data marts -- high performance and easy maintenance -- and
combines them with tight integration, centralized control, workgroup
functionality and support for complex business analysis," said Ken Gardner,
Sagent president and CEO. "Today's users require technology to support
scalable data warehouse solutions, and our partnership with Red Brick brings
an immediate solution to that need." More information on Sagent Technology can
be found at: http://www.sagenttech.com.

    SPSS Inc.
    SPSS builds and markets statistical software which runs on a wide variety
of platforms. As a PaVER partner, SPSS will build an interface to Red Brick.
In a data mining capacity, SPSS 7.5 for Windows will provide access to data in
Red Brick's data warehouse and extract selected data for analysis. "SPSS
offers Red Brick Warehouse users a quick, easy and thorough method for
business analysis," said Jack Noonan, president and CEO.  "Using SPSS, people
doing database marketing, product line reporting, forecasting, analysis of
promotion effectiveness or developing customer profiles and satisfaction
models can leverage Red Brick's strength in storing large volumes of data in
an easily accessible way." More information on SPSS can be found at:
http://www.spss.com.

    About Red Brick Systems, Inc.
    Red Brick Systems, Inc., based in Los Gatos, Calif., is the industry's
fastest growing database company and the leading provider of high-performance
relational database products for data warehousing. Its flagship product, Red
Brick Warehouse 5.0, is the world's fastest and most scalable relational
database for data warehousing, including data marts, online analytical
processing (OLAP) and data mining. Red Brick customers are successful because
the company's high-performance products and service enable more users to
analyze more data and make better decisions faster.
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