PEOPLESOFT SELECTS ARBOR'S ESSBASE AS MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASE FOR ITS
COMPREHENSIVE OLAP STRATEGY

COMPANIES TEAM TO DELIVER INTEGRATED OPERATIONAL OLAP SOLUTION

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., APRIL 15, 1996 -- Arbor Software (Nasdaq:ARSW), a
leading provider of client/server software for planning, analysis and
management reporting, announced today that PeopleSoft has selected Arbor's
Essbase multidimensional database server as the data mart for its
comprehensive OLAP strategy.

The companies will integrate Essbase with the PeopleSoft application suite
by enabling customers to combine the metadata of PeopleSoft applications,
including trees, effective dating and security features, with Essbase's
robust analytical capabilities. Metadata stored in PeopleSoft's
applications will automatically be synchronized with the contents of an
Essbase data mart to accurately and easily reflect changing data
structures. This combination will offer users a true Operational OLAP
solution by integrating "what happened?", "what-if?" and "what next?"
analysis and planning capabilities with enterprise client/server
applications.

Essbase provides a strategic platform to perform a variety of enterprise
applications such as budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, management
reporting, sales analysis and marketing analysis. PeopleSoft plans to
develop and market a series of OLAP application templates to enable
customers to immediately use Essbase with PeopleSoft applications.

"In the highly competitive applications market, we are pleased that
PeopleSoft has selected Essbase as the data mart in its OLAP strategy,"
said Jim Dorrian, Arbor Software's president and CEO. "Essbase offers
users robust analytical power, speed of thought response times, full
read/write access and open support for a broad range of tools, making
Essbase an ideal component in PeopleSoft's enterprise application suite."

"Arbor is a market leader in the multidimensional database server market,"
said Jim Hopp, PeopleSoft's manager of technology strategy. "By
integrating the powerful OLAP capabilities of Arbor's Essbase with
PeopleSoft applications, we will be able to deliver analytical data mart
capabilities to our mutual customers."

OPEN ARCHITECTURE

Business Objects and Cognos, two of Arbor Software's Alliance Partners,
were also named as part of PeopleSoft's OLAP strategy. Cognos' PowerPlay
is one of the many popular front end tools which seemlessly connects to
Essbase. In addition, Business Objects and Arbor recently announced a
marketing and development agreement to deliver an interface between
BusinessObjects 4.0 and Essbase.  Arbor's alliance with Cognos and
Business Objects delivers an integrated client/server solution for
multidimensional planning, analysis, and reporting. As part of
PeopleSoft's OLAP strategy, joint customers can now leverage Essbase's
strengths for applications which require multi-user access, large data
capacity and powerful analytics with popular desktop query, reporting, and
analysis tools.

ABOUT ESSBASE

Essbase is a multidimensional database optimized for business planning,
analysis and management reporting applications such as profitability
analysis, budgeting, forecasting, planning, financial consolidations,
sales analysis and EIS. Based upon a true, client/server architecture,
Essbase supports multi-user read and write access, large-scale data
capacity, robust analytical calculations, flexible data navigation and
consistent, speed of thought response times. The Essbase server's open
architecture supports direct data access using standard spreadsheets or
leading third-party query, reporting and EIS tools.

Essbase scales from a single-user solution to enterprise OLAP (on- line
analytical processing) server within a data warehousing strategy. Essbase
operates on servers running Windows NT, OS/2 and UNIX across all major
networks connected to Windows, Macintosh and UNIX clients.

ABOUT ARBOR SOFTWARE

Arbor Software Corporation (Nasdaq:ARSW) develops and markets client/server
software for business planning, analysis and management reporting. Arbor's
products are used by more than 650 corporations spanning a broad range of
industries and business applications including Bank of Boston, Emery
Worldwide, Fidelity, Los Angeles Times, Neutrogena, Pennzoil, PEPSICO,
Prudential and Sears. Arbor has over 100 application, services, tools and
platform partners, including Comshare, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft.
Arbor's products are sold direct, as well as through system integrators
and VARs worldwide. Arbor's offices are located in Atlanta, Boston,
Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, Washington
D.C., London and Paris. More information on Arbor products and services
can be found on Arbor's World Wide Web (WWW) site at
http://www.arborsoft.com.

For Arbor Software product information, please call 1-800-858-1666.
 
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