United Airlines Standardizes On Brio Software To
Address Its Business Intelligence Needs
Brio Delivers Analysis and Web-Based Reporting Solutions
to United Airlines Employees
SANTA CLARA, Calif., December 10, 2001 -- Brio
Software (Nasdaq: BRIO), a leading provider of next-generation business
intelligence tools and applications that help Global 3000 companies achieve
breakthrough business performance, today announced that United Airlines
(NYSE: UAL) has selected the Brio Performance Suite™ as the business
intelligence standard for its data warehousing initiatives. By deploying
Brio's Performance Suite, United can provide analysts with access to mission-critical
information from its data warehouse and link the results to other sources
across the corporation.
"We began using Brio's solutions two years ago in our Resource Planning
division and have recently decided to deploy Brio to data warehouse users
across the United organization," said Casey Hossa, director ISD sales &
marketing applications at United Airlines. "Brio offers a very robust and
easy-to-use set of tools and applications that are compatible with a variety
of our information environments, which is why we are declaring it as the
standard for our data warehouse."
United Airlines analysts will use Brio's solutions to perform informal queries,
analysis and reporting using an integrated database of ticketing, booking,
scheduling, passenger and operational information. Brio helps drive business
performance and maximize profitability by presenting analysts across the
corporation with information to determine the consequences of business decisions,
to evaluate new business opportunities and to assess the cause and effect
of competitive actions in the marketplace. United will also use Brio's capabilities
to schedule batch reports and queries, to generate alerts and to publish
targeted reports for users across the enterprise.
"We are extremely pleased to be working with one of the largest airline
carriers in the world," said Don Beck, executive vice president, worldwide
sales, Brio Software. "With Brio's tools and applications, United Airlines
has the capacity to effectively derive higher business value from all of
its existing enterprise information sources to help maximize profits and
drive better business decisions."
United Airlines offers nearly 1,650 flights a day on a route network that
spans the globe. News releases and other information about United Airlines
can be found at the company's website, www.united.com.
Brio Software is a leading provider of next-generation business intelligence
tools and applications that help Global 3000 companies achieve breakthrough
business performance. Widely recognized as one of the easiest-to-use and
deploy solutions in the industry, the Brio Performance Suite expands business
intelligence beyond advanced query and analysis technologies to include
powerful information delivery through enterprise-class reporting and personalized
performance dashboards. Used by nearly 70 percent of the Fortune 100,
Brio products empower individuals, workgroups and executives in an organization
to turn enterprise information into actionable insight, so superior decisions
and business performance result. Founded in 1989, and headquartered in
Santa Clara, CA, Brio products and services can be found around the globe
at www.brio.com.
The Brio Performance Suite is a trademark of Brio Software.
The statements in this press release regarding the results and improvements
obtained based on the implementation of Brio Software applications within
United Airlines are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E
of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements
are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties
include, but are not limited to, changes in business strategy, quality
and integrity of data inside the Brio applications, limited resources
for product installation and integration of the Brio Software applications
at United Airlines sites, specific software versions at United Airline
sites, as well as Brio's future product direction and general economic
conditions. For a more complete discussion of risk factors that could
affect Brio's current and future operating results, see the discussions
in Brio's reports filed with the SEC from time to time, including but
not limited to Brio's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March
31, 2001 filed with the SEC on June 29, 2001 and Brio's Quarterly Reports
on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2001 filed with the SEC on
August 14, 2001 and for the quarter ended September 30, 2001 filed with
the SEC on November 14, 2001.
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