Brio Technology

Brio Technology was a San Francisco Bay area software company cofounded in 1984 by Yorgen Edholm and Katherine Glassey. It made money early on by doing contract work for Metaphor Corporation and performing contract programming.By 1990 Brio had developed its first product Data Prism, a database query and analysis tool. The next year Brio released Data Pivot, an innovative program designed to allow regular or sequenced data to be totaled automatically. This was one of the first OLAP software applications. The essential idea of DataPivot was added to both Borland's Quattro Pro and Microsoft Excel (pivot tables). Also Lotus Improv was built around a similar (though independently created) idea. Brio gained a patent for the idea behind DataPivot ("Cross Tab Analysis and Reporting Method") in 1998.
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