Partners' Products Exploit Specialized DSS Capabilities of Red Brick
 Warehouse; Program Reinforces Data Warehouse Leadership and Delivers Success
                                   To Users

    LOS GATOS, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Red Brick(TM) Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: REDB), The Data Warehouse Company(TM), today announced its PaVER
(Partner and Value Extended Reseller) Gold(TM) Program, a technical
certification initiative designed to provide Red Brick Warehouse users with a
choice of leading software products that exploit the specialized decision
support capabilities of Red Brick Warehouse, Red Brick's data warehouse
relational database (RDBMS).
    Red Brick also announced that five leading data warehouse software tool
vendors have been certified as PaVER Gold partners:  Brio Technology, Inc.,
Business Objects, Information Advantage, Inc., Logic Works, Inc. and
MicroStrategy, Inc.
    Red Brick Warehouse is the industry's only RDBMS specialized for data
warehouse applications.  Red Brick recently introduced Red Brick Warehouse
5.0, its newest release that extends Red Brick's technical leadership in data
warehousing over general purpose transaction-oriented RDBMSs.  Red Brick
Warehouse 5.0 provides advanced functionality, scalability and performance for
data warehouse, data mart, data mining, OLAP and database marketing
applications.
    Because Red Brick Warehouse is designed specifically for data warehouse
applications, it contains hundreds of specialized decision support features
and functions unavailable in general purpose databases.  These capabilities,
such as Red Brick's RISQL(R) business analysis features, are planned to be
fully accessible through the PaVER Gold partner products.
    Red Brick has the most extensive data warehouse partnering program in the
data warehouse industry, with nearly 100 PaVER(TM) partners worldwide.  Red
Brick founded its PaVER program in 1993 to foster relationships with
third-party organizations whose products and services complement Red Brick's
data warehouse business strategy.
    In the PaVER Gold Program, partners have committed to even tighter
interoperability between their software products and Red Brick Warehouse, to
support future releases of Red Brick Warehouse within a specified amount of
time after each release, and to establish reciprocal technical support links
with Red Brick to quickly resolve technical issues with joint customers.
"The PaVER Gold Program is intended to provide our customers with a choice of
leading data warehouse products that will continually take advantage of the
specialized features of Red Brick Warehouse," said Ken Nicolson, director of
marketing for Red Brick.  "PaVER Gold will benefit customers in their ability

to build data warehouses faster at the lowest possible cost, while getting the
best performance with the most functionality specific to data warehousing.
Ultimately, the combination of PaVER Gold partners' products and Red Brick
Warehouse delivers the best data warehouse solutions available in the market
today to customers worldwide."

    PaVER Gold Partners
    Red Brick has certified five leading software tool vendors as PaVER Gold
partners, with more vendors under review:
    Brio Technology, Inc., based in Palo Alto, Calif., is the leading desktop
OLAP query tool built for the data warehouse.  Brio's corporate mission is to
provide user-centric solutions that are sophisticated, powerful and easy to
use.  "As the only query tool built exclusively for the data warehouse, it is
a natural extension for us to be completely integrated with Red Brick
Warehouse," said Katherine Glassey, executive vice president of products and
marketing at Brio.  "BrioQuery Enterprise transparently supports unique Red
Brick Warehouse features providing customers with the most powerful data
warehouse solution."  For more information about Brio, see their Web site at
http://www.brio.com.
    Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJY) is the world's leading provider of
integrated query, reporting and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) tools.
The company's flagship product, BusinessObjects, provides mainstream business
users with access to information stored in corporate databases, data
warehouses and packaged applications.  "We are committed to our close
partnership with Red Brick, and are pleased to have been selected for the
PaVER Gold Program," said Dave Kellog, vice president of corporate marketing
at Business Objects.  "Delivering complete data warehouse solutions is
essential for our mutual customers.  That is why we recently announced our
support for Red Brick's new industry-leading Red Brick Warehouse 5.0."  For
more information about Business Objects, see their Web site at
http://www.businessobjects.com.
    Information Advantage, Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., develops
and markets DecisionSuite, the world's leading enterprise business analysis
software applications and toolset.  "We're pleased to be one of the leading
ROLAP vendors in Red Brick's PaVER Gold Program," said Larry Ford, president
and CEO of Information Advantage.  "The combination of DecisionSuite's
unmatched data and user scalability with Red Brick's strong data warehouse
products provides organizations with proven superior performance and
manageability for business analysis needs."  For more information about
Information Advantage, see their Web site at http://www.infoadvan.com.
    Logic Works, Inc. (Nasdaq: LGWX) is a leading provider of client/server
database design, data warehouse and business process reengineering software
solutions.  Logic Works' tools are adaptable to a wide variety of leading
technologies, providing an open and easy-to-use solution.  "Dimensional
modeling is a critical success factor in data warehousing.  Red Brick's PaVER
Gold Program brings together ERwin's design leadership with Red Brick's
dimensional database leadership to provide our customers with a solid win,"
said Dean F. Boyer, director of data warehousing product marketing management
for Logic Works.  For more information about Logic Works, see their Web site
at http://www.logicworks.com.
    MicroStrategy, Inc. is the leading provider of industrial-strength
decision support products for developing and accessing data warehouses. As the
Relational OLAP (ROLAP) industry pioneer, MicroStrategy was the first vendor
to deliver high-performance, multidimensional OLAP analysis directly from
relational databases without requiring any proprietary multidimensional
databases.  "MicroStrategy and Red Brick are both leaders in, and dedicated
to, ROLAP," said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer at MicroStrategy.
"We have worked together for the past year to integrate and optimize our
products to work together.  The combined technologies represent the first
open, optimized solution built from the ground up specifically for data
warehouse/ROLAP decision support applications.  This close integration enables
our numerous joint customers to extract data from a relational database in the
most efficient way possible.  We look forward to an exciting PaVER Gold
partnership."  For more information about MicroStrategy, see their Web site at
http://www.microstrategy.com.

    About Red Brick Systems, Inc.
    Red Brick Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of data warehouse products
and service.  The company, based in Los Gatos, Calif., specializes in software
products used for fast, accurate and confident business decisions on large
client/server databases.
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may also be retrieved by fax.  For an index of available materials, call
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    NOTE:  Red Brick and logo and RISQL are registered trademarks, and Red
Brick, The Data Warehouse Company, PaVER and PaVER Gold are trademarks of Red
Brick Systems, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the
property of their respective holders.

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