ANGOSS Software Announces Data Mining Partnership with Business Objects

Toronto, Ont.-- (May 21, 1996) -- ANGOSS Software (ASE:ANC), the world
leader in Knowledge Discovery, announced today that it has joined the
Business Objects open data mining partner program. Under this partnership,
Business Objects will provide mutual customers with a free link, available
immediately, that will allow users to launch ANGOSS KnowledgeSEEKER from
within BUSINESSOBJECTS. The two companies are also planning joint
marketing efforts. 

ANGOSS KnowledgeSEEKER will be accessible to BUSINESSOBJECTS through a
one-button integration. BUSINESSOBJECTS' powerful query, reporting and
on-line analytical processing (OLAP) abilities combined with ANGOSS
KnowledgeSEEKER's Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery capabilities will
significantly enhance the customers' decision-making. 

Lynne Stethem, President and CEO ANGOSS Software, commented "Both new and
existing users of Business Objects' tools will benefit greatly from this
partnership. KnowledgeSEEKER's ability not only to identify trends and
relationships in data, but also to make accurate predictions, is a
powerful competitive weapon. When this is combined with Business Objects
technology, the result is indeed formidable." 

"We are pleased to be partnering with ANGOSS, and to offer our customers
the ability to connect to ANGOSS KnowledgeSEEKER through BUSINESSOBJECTS,"
said Bernard Liautaud, President and CEO of Business Objects. "Our
partnership will allow customers to take advantage of BUSINESSOBJECTS for
integrated query, reporting, and OLAP, and ANGOSS KnowledgeSEEKER to
further mine the resulting report." 

ANGOSS KnowledgeSEEKER, an artificially intelligent Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining technology, offers a unique solution for Business
Intelligence/Decision Support applications including direct marketing,
human resources, fraud detection, risk management, sales, research and
process control. KnowledgeSEEKER excels not only in an analytical capacity
but can also be used as an exceptionally accurate predictive tool. 

Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY) is a leading supplier of integrated query,
reporting, and OLAP tools. The company's flagship product,
BUSINESSOBJECTS, provides mainstream business users with access to
information stored in corporate databases, data. warehouses, and packaged
applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent
decision support tools in 1990 by introducing the first product to use a
"semantic layer" to map complex database schemes to a business
representation understandable by non-technical end users. 

ANGOSS Software, headquartered in Toronto Canada with subsidiaries in the
United States and Europe, is committed to providing Knowledge Discovery
products that are not only scalable but that offer real value in the
widest possible areas of decision making. American Demographics magazine
recognized KnowledgeSEEKER as a leading edge tool, and in 1995 named
ANGOSS one of the "100 best sources for Marketing Information."

ANGOSS strategic partnerships include Andyne, NCR, Sequent Computers, SHL
Systems House, Silicon Graphics and Tandem Computers. For further
information on ANGOSS visit http://www.angoss.com. 

ANGOSS Software International
Suite 201 - 430 King Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 1J5
416-593-1122,  fax 416-593-5077
 
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