PILOT SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES INTEGRATION WITH MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 6.5

PILOT DECISION SUPPORT SUITE, VERSION 5, WILL SUPPORT NEW MICROSOFT DATA
WAREHOUSING ENHANCEMENTS TO PROVIDE INTEGRATED OLAP SOLUTION

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. APRIL 15, 1996 - Pilot Software, Inc., a company of The
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation and a leading global supplier of interactive
business analysis and reporting tools, today announced that the Pilot
Decision Support Suite, Version 5, will support the new OLAP query
extensions in Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, a high performance database
management system for Windows NT Server-based systems. By integrating
powerful visualization, business modeling and data management
capabilities, these products will provide a powerful data warehouse
solution.

"We are pleased to partner with Microsoft, securing our commitment to offer
the most complete, extensible OLAP solution built on open standards to our
joint customers," said John Fleming, vice president of marketing and
business development. "This partnership combines the rich visualization
and dynamic OLAP capabilities of the Pilot Decision Support Suite with the
highly scalable data management features of Microsoft's SQL Server 6.5 to
provide a very flexible data warehousing environment for Windows NT
Server."

The enhancements to the Pilot Decision Support Suite will include support
for SQL Server 6.5's new OLAP query extensions, simplifying information
retrieval for analytical purposes. Pilot will also utilize SQL Server's
new "data pipe" feature, which allows programmatic retrieval of
information from multiple sources and populates SQL Server tables with the
results. This feature will be extremely useful in building "materialized
views" of information for data warehousing applications.

"With its parallel processing architecture, advanced query optimization and
open interoperability, Microsoft SQL Server is a proven platform for data
warehousing applications," said Jim Ewel, group product manager for
Microsoft SQL Server. "The availability of the Pilot Decision Support
Suite for SQL Server 6.5 and its integration with SQL Server's new OLAP
extensions delivers a powerful solution for customers building data
warehousing applications."

PILOT DECISION SUPPORT SUITE

The Pilot Decision Support Suite, Version 5, is designed to enable very
complex business analysis to be deployed quickly and affordably. Its
breakthrough architecture overcomes many of the limitations of traditional
multi-dimensional and relational OLAP approaches by providing the ability
to define dynamic dimensions and hierarchies. The recently announced Pilot
Decision Support Suite consists of five components - Pilot Desktop", Pilot
Analysis Server", Pilot Designer", Pilot Analysis Library" and the Pilot
Excel Add-in", that can be purchased separately or together. Users can
install the products in a single-user, workgroup or multi-tier distributed
configuration.

ABOUT PILOT SOFTWARE

Pilot Software, Inc., a company of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation,
develops interactive decision support software for managers and analysts
in large organizations who need to make time-critical decisions based on
quantifiable information. The Pilot Decision Support Suite" is the only
complete, extensible on-line analytical processing (OLAP) environment
built on open standards. It accelerates the analysis of corporate data to
improve understanding of current key indicators, past performance and
future trends, resulting in better business decisions. Pilot's global
headquarters is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company has a
strong international presence with offices throughout North and South
America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. For more information, Pilot can be
reached at HTTP://WWW.PILOTSW.COM.
 
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