Toyota realises a 605% return on investment using Brio Software

Weybridge, England, September 08 -- - Brio Software Suite awarded for delivering significant ROI

Brio Software Inc. , a leading provider of next-generation business intelligence tools, today announced that Brio products have recently won two important industry awards. One of these awards was presented to a Brio customer -- Toyota Motor Sales -- for the significant, distinguishable impact made by their Brio implementation. The other award was presented by Brio's SAP customers in the SAPFAQ.com user community through their recommendations of Brio products.

Baseline Magazine/Nucleus Research Technology ROI award

Baseline Magazine and Nucleus Research have awarded Toyota the Best Business Intelligence Implementation award for its return on investment (ROI) using the Brio Performance Suite. Toyota accepted the award at the 2003 Baseline Magazine/Nucleus Research Technology ROI Forum in New York. The conference focuses on successful deployments of information systems that delivered bottom-line results. Toyota Motor Sales uses Brio software to help manage its logistical operations, and the company reengineered many of its key logistical processes based on knowledge gained from Brio reports. The company won the ROI award by demonstrating over one million US dollars in annual savings based on the Brio solution.

SAP FAQ 2003 Members' Choice Top 25 Tools and Technology award

Brio is also announcing that it has won a second consecutive Members' Choice Top 25 award from the SAP FAQ (http://www.sapfaq.com/) user community. This award recognises the 25 products that received the most recommendations in a March 2003 survey of the SAP FAQ's more than 15,000 members. The products were graded on having the "greatest positive impact" on SAP R3/mySAP implementations, and members were asked to select products that they would most recommend to their peers.

"Winning a single Members' Choice Top 25 Award is a notable statement on its own of the confidence SAP FAQ members place in Brio Software for having provided outstanding product and service delivery," said Janelle Ross, director of Member Services for the SAP FAQ. "Brio Software's standing as an elite back-to-back Members' Choice Top 25 Gold Star Award winner illustrates a consistent commitment to, and achievement of, outstanding customer satisfaction."

"We are always excited to win industry awards, but these are especially satisfying because they were tied to tremendously successful implementations of Brio software," said Brian Gentile, executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Brio Software. "These awards are further proof of the significant impact that Brio Performance Suite can make on a company's bottom-line."

About Brio Software

Brio Software helps Global 3000 companies achieve breakthrough business performance with one of the industry's most comprehensive and best integrated suite of business intelligence tools. Widely recognised as one of the easiest-to-use and deploy solutions in the industry, Brio tools are used by 75 of the Fortune 100 and more than 2 million people worldwide. Brio Performance Suite and Brio Metrics Builder empower individuals, workgroups and executives to turn enterprise information into actionable insight, resulting in superior decisions and business performance. Founded in 1989, and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Brio products and services can be found around the globe at http://www.brio.com/.

NOTE: Brio Intelligence, Brio Portal, Brio Reports, Brio Metrics Builder and Brio Performance Suite are trademarks of Brio Software. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

Jane Gideon of Incendio International, +44(0)1483-549-035, or jane@incendio.net, for Brio Software