Business Objects Announces BusinessObjects 4.0J for Japanese Market; Popular Integrated Query, Reporting and OLAP Tool To Be Available to Customers in Japan.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 1996--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), the world's leading provider of integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ) tools, today announced BusinessObjects 4.0J, the Japanese version of its popular decision support tool. Business Objects' decision support tools are distributed in Japan by a number of distributors, including NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. (Editor's note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : see press release also dated December 16, 1996), K.K. Ashisuto, Fujitsu Limited and Toshiba Corporation (company) Toshiba Corporation - A Japanese technology manufacturer with 364 subsidiaries worldwide. Toshiba makes and sells electronics for home, office, industry and health care including information and communication systems, electronic components, heavy electrical apparatus, . BusinessObjects 4.0J has been developed in response to the growing demand from Japanese companies for integrated query, reporting, and OLAP tools, for use in enterprise decision support and in particular, data warehousing. The Japanese version of BusinessObjects is a complete double-byte implementation and fully supports Kanji (human language, character) kanji - /kahn'jee/ (From the Japanese "kan" - the Chinese Han dynasty, and "ji" - glyph or letter of the alphabet. Not capitalised. Plural "kanji") The Japanese word for a Han character used in Japanese. and localized error messages and screens. BusinessObjects 4.0J will be available in 1Q97 on all Windows platforms. "Business Objects has done very well in the Japanese market, and it is one of our fastest growing regions," said Bernard Liautaud, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Business Objects. "We are excited to release BusinessObjects 4.0J, and bring integrated query, reporting, and OLAP to our customers in Japan. Increasingly, these customers are building data warehouses, and BusinessObjects has become the decision support tool of choice for end users." BusinessObjects 4.0J Unveiled in Popular Data Warehousing Seminar Series In October and November, 1996, BusinessObjects 4.0J was launched to the Japanese market during a very successful data warehousing seminar series attended by customers and prospects, representing many of the leading companies in Japan. About Business Objects Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY) is the world's leading supplier of integrated query, reporting and OLAP tools. The company's award-winning 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." This patented technology maps complex database schemas to a business representation understandable by non-technical end users. Business Objects led the overall decision support tools market in 1995 with software license revenues of $48.7M, and outsold out·sold v. Past tense and past participle of outsell. its nearest query and reporting tools competitor two-to-one according to IDC. Business Objects products are in use at over 3,600 organizations in over 60 countries, and the company has sold more than 400,000 licenses worldwide. More information on Business Objects can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.businessobjects.com . -0- BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects SA. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. A full-text copy of this announcement may be obtained by calling the Company's fax retrieval line at 1-800-414-2114 and selecting option "one." The announcement may also be downloaded from the Web; access "http://www.businesswire.com/cnn" and search on "Business Objects" CONTACT: Business Objects Tracy Eiler, 408/953-6031 (press contact) teiler@busobj.com or Herbst Consulting Lisa Herbst, 408/739-0252 (IR contact) |
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