Business Objects Announces Integration With New Version of Informatica's MX2 API.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)--Nov. 11, 1999-- Joint Customer Experian Already Achieving Powerful Reporting and Easy Metadata Management Using BusinessObjects With Informatica MX2 Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ) and (PARIS BOURSE Paris Bourse National stock market of France. :BOB), the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, today announced that BusinessObjects(TM) and WEBINTELLIGENCE(TM) provide full integration with the latest release of Informatica Corporation's (Nasdaq:INFA INFA International Federation of Aestheticians ) Metadata Exchange (MX2) application programming interface. Launched last week, Informatica's MX2 1.6 application programming interface (API) is the industry's first object-oriented metadata exchange tool to support XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. (extensible markup language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. ). With widespread acceptance of XML as the leading programming language for integrating, extending, and managing e-business applications, Business Objects and Informatica together offer the industry's most advanced, integrated e-business intelligence solution for web-enabled data marts and data warehouses. These systems for e-business intelligence are essential for companies such as Experian Information Solutions. Experian is one of the world's leading suppliers of information technology systems for targeting and acquiring new customers, building successful customer relationships, and managing financial risks. Experian uses BusinessObjects to provide its sales, marketing, and finance analysts with insight into cross-selling opportunities. "We selected BusinessObjects as the first piece of our business intelligence infrastructure back in 1998. Afterwards, we asked a lson Katakura, senior technical consultant, data warehousing and data mining at Experian. "We've found the BusinessObjects bridge makes our metadata management betweart(R) data integration software, and an Oracleresident of Informatica. "As Informatica cversion." BusinessObjects (full-client) and WEBINTELLIGENCE (thin-client) are the company's tools for enterprise query, reporting, and analysis. The products comprise the fully integrated Business Objects end-user system for e-businss market," said Mark Tice, vice president of sor e-business intelligence." Availability BusinessObjects 5.0, WEBINTELLIGENCE 2.5, and Informatica's MX2 1.6 are all generally available. About Informatica Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Informatica develops and markets enterprise software products ve list of industry-leading customers worldwide and supports partnerships with Andersen Consulting, Cambridge Technology Partners, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Ernst & Young LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Consultinntegrated enterprise decision support tools. Business Objects products provide non-technical business users with access to information stored in data warehouses, data malicenses to over 9,100 organizations in more than 80 countries worldwide. Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408/953-6000 or on the world wide web at http: are trademarks of Business Objects SA. Other cax retrieval line at 800/414-2114 and selecting 800/527-0580. |
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