Business Objects Americas Appoints Vice President of Sales; Industry Veteran Paul Doscher Joins Business Objects from Oracle Corporation.CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1996--Business Objects, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise decision support tools, today announced the appointment of Paul Doscher to the position of vice president of sales. This appointment marks Business Objects' continued commitment to the rapidly growing North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. market for decision support tools. Doscher leads the Americas sales team, covering the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . "Paul brings tremendous sales management expertise to Business Objects," said Dennis McCann, president of Business Objects Americas. "With the release of BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0, and rapidly expanding North American customer base, Paul's sales leadership will help Business Objects continue its expansion as a leader in the decision support tools market." Doscher brings more than 18 years of sales and sales management experience to Business Objects. Prior to joining Business Objects, Doscher led the U.S. Alliances Group at Oracle Corp. where he was responsible for more than $300M in annual revenue. Doscher has also held sales management positions at Software AG, TradeNet, and Control Data Corporation. Doscher holds a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; state supported; chartered 1885, opened 1888. It is a member school in the university system of Georgia. Significant among its facilities and programs are the Frank H. . About Business Objects Business Objects (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BOBJY) is a leading provider of enterprise decision support tools that deliver access to data stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent decision support tools in 1990 with the introduction of its flagship product, BUSINESSOBJECTS, the first decision support tool to use a "semantic layer" to map complex database schemas to a business representation understandable by mainstream business users. Business Objects generated over $60M in revenue in 1995, concluding its fifth consecutive year of more than 100% revenue growth. BUSINESSOBJECTS has been licensed in more than 40 countries to over 2,600 customer sites and 130,000 users worldwide. Business Objects partners with more than 350 leading third-party vendors including Arbor Software, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Informix, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Prism, Red Brick, Sun, and Sybase. Strategic resellers include Bull, Digital, Fujitsu, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Price Waterhouse, Sequent, SHL SHL Shift Logical Left SHL Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (German: Swiss College of Agriculture) SHL Southern Hockey League SHL Silver Haired Legislature SHL Single Hidden Layer (neural networks) , Siemens Nixdorf, Toshiba, and Unisys. More information on Business Objects can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.businessobjects.com. -0- Note to Editors: BUSINESSOBJECTS is a trademark of Business Objects S.A. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. CONTACT: Business Objects Inc., Cupertino Tracy Eiler, 408/973-9300 or Blanc & Otus Rebecca Hurst, 415/512-0500 |
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