Brio Software Purchased to Deploy on Every Desktop at Toyota Motor Sales, USA

Employee Demand Drives Need for Additional Licenses

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 30 -- Brio Software Inc. , a leading provider of next-generation business intelligence tools, today announced Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS) has made a significant additional commitment to using Brio for employees and dealers across the United States. Brio is Toyota Motor Sales, USA's standard business intelligence solution, currently providing more than 2,000 employees with dashboards, reports, and analyses from which strategic and operational decisions are made.

Brio tools have been utilized within TMS for more than five years, delivering substantial returns throughout the organization. In just one of many applications using Brio tools, more than $1 million is saved annually through automatic reporting and reconciliation of payments to freight carriers. In the fall of 2002, IDC calculated ROI on TMS' data warehouse and Brio solution at 506%. TMS won Baseline Magazine/ Nucleus Research 2003 Technology ROI Award for Business Intelligence.

"Toyota's culture of continuous improvement and data-driven decisions demands constant reporting and the ability to easily analyze operational and financial data. To this end, Brio is used throughout the organization from executives to clerks and everyone in between," said Mike Burkes, technology manager within Enterprise Data Management, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. "Based on the excitement previous deployments of Brio have created within the business units and the tremendous ROI that is generated by its use, we see the dollars spent to provide Brio on every desktop as a strategic investment."

One large TMS division, Toyota Logistics Services, is heavily dependent on Brio. From port to dealership, hundreds of different suppliers, freight carriers and internal Toyota operations are involved in the movement of approximately 1.7 million vehicles annually. With the careful tracking of vehicles by VIN and hundreds of Brio reports and analyses, supply chain transactions and accounting are streamlined, hand-offs occur more smoothly, and participating parties are better informed and can take appropriate actions. In the past few years, Toyota's volume increased 37% annually, rail and truck routes increased 24%, and the product mix expanded 35%. Due in part to Brio dashboards, reports and analyses, Toyota improved delivery efficiencies on this higher volume with only a 3% growth in staff.

"It's rewarding to see an industry giant like Toyota benefit from empowering their employees with tools to turn information into decisions. From executives viewing dashboards with colored indicators, to analysts running complex queries, Toyota relies on Brio," said Brian Gentile, executive vice president, Brio Software. "Brio's recognized ease-of-use makes it possible for large numbers of users to create and use reports, resulting in Toyota's extraordinary return on its data warehouse and business intelligence investment."

About Toyota Motor Sales, USA

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (TMS) is the sales, marketing, distribution and customer service arm of Toyota, Lexus and Scion in the United States, marketing products and services through a network of nearly 1,400 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealers in 49 states. Toyota is the third-largest vehicle manufacturer in the world and the fourth-largest automaker in the United States. For more information please visit http://www.toyota.com/ .

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 recognized 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 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.

The statements in this press release regarding Brio Software and Toyota Motor Sales 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 customer requirements, differences in customer implementations of Brio Performance Suite, changes in Brio's business strategies, 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, 2003 filed with the SEC on June 30, 2003 and on Brio's form 10-Q for the period ending June 30, 2003 as filed with the SEC on August 15, 2003.