NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Gray & Rice Public Relations
(617) 350-5100

Release Date: July 1996

Data Warehousing Experts Available for Interviews

Andover, MA -- Through a unique arrangement, Digital (DCI) has assembled a panel of 14 experts on various topics in the data warehousing industry which will be available to the media for one-on-one interviews. The experts represent the most current areas of data warehousing including data mining, intranets, OLAP and the financial implications of data warehousing.

This arrangement gives members of both trade and consumer media the opportunity to privately question leading authorities about all aspects of data warehousing, rapidly becoming an important business tool. The panel is a prelude to the upcoming DCI Data Warehouse World Conference & Exposition, the premier event in the data warehousing industry, to be held August 13-15, 1996, at the New York Hilton and Towers.

Members of the media interested in registering for the shows should call Dave Costello at DCI Media Relations, (978) 470-3870.

Digital (DCI), located in Andover, Massachusetts, is a world leader in high-technology education, trade shows and management consulting.

To schedule interview time with any member(s) of the panel, contact Mike Littlewood, Gray & Rice Public Relations, (617) 350-5100.

Business Benefits of Data Warehousing

• Earl Hadden, Principal Consultant of Hadden & Co. Managing Consultants

Data Warehousing in Vertical Industries

• Pieter Mimno, President of Technology Insight, Inc.

Data Warehousing in Financial Services

• Ray Ferrara, Senior Manager with KPMG Peat Marwick

Financial Implications of Data Warehousing

• Aaron Zornes, Executive Vice President of Application Strategies for META Group and DCI Data Warehouse World Chairman

New Approaches to Data Warehousing

• Richard Finkelstein, President of Performance Computing, Inc.

OLAP

• Karen Rubenstrunk, Program Director, Application Strategies for the META Group.

Data Warehousing Technology

• Ken Orr, Principal, The Ken Orr Institute

Data Marts

• Richard Sherman, Principal Consultant, Minerva Solutions, Inc.

Internet/Intranets

• Scott Semple, President, NewThink, Inc.

• David King, Director of Applied Research, Comshare, Inc.

Data Quality

• Larry English, President and Principal, Information Impact International, Inc.

Data Mining

• Aaron Zornes, Executive Vice President of Application Strategies for META Group and DCI Data Warehouse World Chairman

• Inderpal Bhandari, Research Staff Member of IBM who developed the Advanced Scout product used by the National Basketball Association

• Kamran Parsaye, Chief Executive Officer, Information Discovery, Inc.