Corporate Info: Press Release

DM Review Top 10 business intelligence vendors to be announced by 
live Webcast on November 17, 2000

Brookfield, WI – September 26, 2000 – DM Review is pleased to
announce the DM Review 100. This prestigious award recognizes the top
100 business intelligence vendors as selected by the readers of DM
Review. In a product usage and vendor rating survey conducted via the
Web by Market Perspectives, DM Review readers were asked to rate
the vendors of business intelligence (e-business, customer relationship
management and data warehousing) products used in their organizations. 

The DM Review 100 vendors were chosen based on a weighting process
that made calculated adjustments for the rating scores for each product,
the number of sites reporting use of the product, the number of products in
a given category, the number of categories in which the vendor’s products
appeared, and the overall customer satisfaction rating for each vendor. 

In 1998 and 1999, this ranking of vendors by DM Review readers was
identified as the Data Warehouse 100. Data warehousing has become
universally recognized as the required infrastructure of strategic business
intelligence initiatives, and the vendors serving this marketplace now
represent a broad spectrum of products and services. The new name, DM
Review 100, more accurately represents DM Review’s mission and the
vendors that are meeting the business intelligence needs of DM Review
readers.

The 2000 DM Review 100 alphabetical listing from 
http://www.dmreview.com/awards/top 100/. 

The top ten vendors will be announced in a
Webcast on Friday, November 17, at 2:00 p.m. EST/11:00 a.m. PST at
http://www.dmreview.com.

DM REVIEW 100 (http://www.dmreview.com) in alphabetical order


                      ABC Technologies
                      Accrue
                      ACXIOM 
                      Adaytum
                      ALI Database Consultants
                      ambeo
                      Amdahl/Siemens
                      ANGOSS Software Corporation
                      Appsmart 
                      BEZ Systems
                      BMC Software 
                      Brio Technology, Inc.
                      Broadbase Software, Inc. 
                      BULL
                      Business Objects
                      Cartesis
                      Claritas
                      Cognos, Inc.
                      CommVault
                      Compaq Computer Corporation
                      Computer Associates
                      Comshare, Inc.
                      CoSORT/Innovative Routines Int'l, Inc.
                      Data Junction
                      DataMirror Corporation
                      Datawatch
                      DBE Software
                      DecisionPoint Applications, Inc.
                      Dell Computer
                      Dragon Systems
                      Dun & Bradstreet
                      EMC 
                      E.piphany
                      ESRI
                      ETI (Evolutionary Technologies International)
                      Evoke Software
                      Exabyte
                      Fair Isaac
                      FileTek
                      Firstlogic, Inc.
                      Fiserv
                      FRx Software
                      Gateway
                      Gentia Software
                      Group 1 Software, Inc.
                      Hewlett-Packard
                      Hitachi Data Systems
                      HNC Software Inc.
                      Hummingbird
                      Hyperion Solutions Corporation
                      i2 Technologies
                      IBM Corporation
                      InAlysys
                      Informatica Corp.
                      Information Builders Inc.
                      Informix
                      Intelligent Technologies Corporation (ITC)
                      JDA Software Group
                      KnowledgeBase Marketing
                      Lawson
                      LeadingSide
                      Legato
                      Lightbridge
                      LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc.
                      MapInfo Corporation
                      MathSoft, Inc.
                      Mercator
                      Microsoft Corporation
                      MicroStrategy Inc.
                      NCR
                      Network Appliance
                      Novell
                      nStor Corporation
                      NuEdge Systems
                      Oracle Corporation
                      PeopleSoft
                      Precise Software
                      Quantum
                      Quest Software
                      Remedy
                      SAP
                      SAS Institute
                      Seagate Software
                      Seagate Technology
                      SGI
                      Siebel Systems
                      SPSS Inc.
                      StorageTek
                      Stratus
                      Sun Microsystems
                      Sybase
                      Syncsort, Inc.
                      Taurus
                      Torrent Systems, Inc.
                      Trillium Software, a division of Harte-Hanks
                      Unisys
                      VERITAS
                      WhiteCross Systems
                      WhiteLight Systems
                      Xchange, Inc.