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AST ESM announces PeopleSoft partnership

Johannesburg, 15 Apr 2002

AST Enterprise Solutions Management (ESM), a business unit of the AST Group and the preferred distributor of Brio Software in Africa, has announced Brio`s participation as a PeopleSoft Partner for Enterprise Performance Management Reporting.

"This partnership provides PeopleSoft client`s with the flexibility to utilise Brio Software to address their business intelligence needs," explains Andrew Cook of AST ESM. "Brio Software`s ability to complement PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management provides our clients with the flexibility to choose Brio Software as their analytic reporting software provider.

"PeopleSoft EPM customers who utilise Brio`s business intelligence software with their EPM data warehouses, will be able to leverage Brio Intelligence to establish critical business metrics, evaluate enterprise efficiency, and empower employees to make better decisions and achieve enhanced business performance," adds Cook.

PeopleSoft EPM clients who choose to implement Brio Intelligence may benefit from Brio`s intuitive and Web-enabled reporting capability. Additionally, for those PeopleSoft EPM customers who need to provide decision-makers with easy-to-use, consistent, and drillable graphical views of PeopleSoft EPM data, Brio Intelligence provides user-friendly personalised performance dashboard development capabilities. Brio dashboards provide decision-makers with the visualisation of their data they need to conduct timely business analysis and decision-making.

Brio Intelligence is an easy-to-use, integrated set of advanced query and analysis business performance tools that can be rapidly deployed to everyone across the enterprise. Brio Intelligence enables integration, query and analysis of business data from existing systems to drive an interactive understanding of relevant opportunities and issues throughout the enterprise. It empowers users with an intuitive, Web-enabled interface that delivers real-time, business critical information for performance-driven decision-making.

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AST Group

In just three years the AST Group has established itself as one of the leading information and communication technology (ICT) companies on the JSE Securities Exchange. Its consistent creation of value for shareholders, clients and employees has resulted in a steady increase in monthly revenue to the R100 million plus mark.

AST is now the fourth largest South African IT company by market capitalisation, and is one of the top three in terms of physical infrastructure (mainframes, servers, desktops, and networks under management) and geographical footprint with over 62 physical locations. Counting almost 90% of the top 100 JSE-listed companies among itsclients, the AST Group services mostly large corporate and government clients, but is increasingly offering services to rapidly evolving small and medium enterprises.

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