Business Objects Announces Reseller Agreement With ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2003

Now Offers Industry-Leading Visualization to Enhance Dashboards and

Scorecards Built with BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced it has signed a global reseller agreement with ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc., a Visual Insights Company, whereby Business Objects will resell the ADVIZOR products. This will enable customers to deploy advanced visualization with BusinessObjects(TM) Dashboard Manager, a new product for delivering management dashboards, scorecards, and alerting capabilities to the enterprise. This enables customers to add advanced three-dimensional (3D) visualization capabilities, including maps and charts, to their management dashboards.

The ADVIZOR product has been integrated with BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager, enabling customers to build systems that include both traditional visuals, such as gauges, and scorecards, such as stoplights, with powerful 3D maps and charts. Users can employ these advanced displays to perform interactive analysis of data and to better see the data over geographic maps.

"The ADVIZOR Solutions technology is a natural fit with Dashboard Manager and will enable companies to more easily deploy their performance management solutions," said Chris Caren, vice president of corporate product marketing at Business Objects. "Together, we will facilitate the visualization of information and enable organizations to better align, monitor, and manage their information according to enterprise performance goals."

"We are pleased that Business Objects will be reselling our capabilities with BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager," said Dan Dubriwny, vice president of sales and business development of ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc. "Our focus is on helping organizations transform data into business answers through the use of our unique and powerful visualization solutions. We do this by giving users pre-built and customized views that dramatically enhances the users ability to instantly spot trends, patterns, and anomalies in their data. Combined with Business Objects, our visualization will make it easier for users to interpret what is being presented in management dashboards and scorecards, and will add to the success of performance management initiatives."

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business intelligence lets organizations access, analyze, and share information internally with employees and externally with customers, suppliers, and partners. It helps organizations improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings.

The company's products include data integration tools, the industry's leading integrated business intelligence platform, and a suite of enterprise analytic applications. Business Objects is the first to offer a complete BI solution that is composed of best-of-breed components, giving organizations the means to deploy end-to-end BI to the enterprise, from data extraction to analytic applications.

Business Objects has more than 17,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (Euroclear code 12074). It is included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408-953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com.

ABOUT ADVIZOR Solutions, a Visual Insights Company

ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc (www.advizorsolutions.com), a Visual Insights Company (www.visualinsights.com), is the Business Visualization Company(TM). Our mission is to help business managers and analysts understand and profit from their key mission critical data. We do this by integrating patented business visualization software and analytic expertise into key business applications. ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc., leverages 10 years of Bell Laboratories' extensive R&D efforts in data visualization technology. We maintain strategic technology and co-marketing alliances with Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Business Objects, Avaya and i2 Technologies. Headquartered in Chicago, Ill., ADVIZOR Solutions and Visual Insights are backed by premier investors including ABN AMRO Private Equity, Intel IA 64 Fund, Emigrant Capital, Lehman Brothers, Milstein Brothers Capital Partners, New Venture Partners, Topspin Partners, L.P. and Gulf Investment Bank. ADVIZOR Solutions can be reached at 630-971-5200.

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.

Business Objects product inquiries should contact 800-527-0580.