Business Objects Announces Strategic Alliance With iManage to Provide Collaborative Application Portal for e-Business Intelligence Market.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2000

Open Portal Initiative Partnership Provides Collaborative

Business Intelligence Solutions for the Enterprise

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, today announced that iManage, Inc. (Nasdaq:IMAN), a leading provider of e-business content and collaboration software platforms and applications, has joined the Business Objects open portal initiative (OPI).

This strategic partnership integrates the robust iManage collaborative software platforms and applications with the Business Objects suite of e-business intelligence products. This integration will offer customers an enterprise collaborative portal solution providing content management, personalization, query, notification, archiving, and search capabilities.

Business Objects created the Business Objects open portal initiative (OPI) to provide organizations maximum flexibility in deploying portal solutions throughout their enterprises. As the first part of the company's portal strategy, Business Objects provides BusinessObjects(TM) InfoView, a Business Intelligence portal (BIP) that collects and consolidates a company's business intelligence (BI) information and presents it in a secure, focused, and personalized view to business users. In addition, Business Objects partners with leading enterprise information portal (EIP) vendors, enabling the rich feature set of Business Objects products to be directly and seamlessly integrated into EIP solutions provided by partners and offering customers a wide array of vendors to choose from as they construct their complete end-to-end portal solution.

iManage is integrating key elements of BusinessObjects InfoView, WebIntelligence(R), and BusinessObjects Broadcast Agent Technologies with infoLink, the iManage Web Portal; infoLook(TM), the iManage Outlook portal; the iManage infoCommerce(TM) platform; and all iManage output management facilities. This integration provides extended e-BI and robust collaboration benefits to users, with features including:

--  report creation and profiling, classification, and multiple format
    output,

--  version control including audit trail and security,

--  scheduled broadcasting and notification,

--  large-scale content management and workflow,

--  task management, notes, discussion threads, full search, and
    archiving,

--  collaboration with electronic content and news feeds

In addition, iManage can extend the output management with email notification, fax and print output, workflow management, and synchronization with Microsoft(R) Outlook and Palm. With consulting partner Cronos, iManage is already delivering a combined iManage and Business Objects solution to customers including Luxembourgish Funds Managing Company, Dexia, and FETA/Merrill Lynch for e-BI collaboration in the financial services market.

"With Business Objects, we already provide our customers with a powerful e-Business Intelligence platform," said David Robert, chief technology officer of Cronos Technologies. "And for several months, we qualified the iManage solution to test its content and collaboration functionality for large libraries of information including documents, audio files, and calendars. With this seamless integration between the iManage network and the Business Objects products, we can now give our customers a unique e-BI-enabled collaborative portal for large organizations."

"The iManage solution allows users to view, access, interact, and collaborate on critical business information provided by the Business Objects leading e-BI solution," noted Shams Rashid, vice president of business development, iManage Inc. "Customers are excited as this capability allows for faster and smarter decision making in the enterprise. This translates into competitive advantage in the marketplace."

"We selected iManage as an OPI partner because we believe its solution works seamlessly to meet the customer demand for a collaborative enterprise portal," said Gene Villeneuve, director of product marketing at Business Objects. "Working together, Business Objects and iManage will enable joint customers to provide employees, partners, and customers with timely e-business intelligence and the ability to interact using a complete scalable collaboration framework."

iManage joins the growing list of established Business Objects EIP partners, which includes IBM, Mediapps, Plumtree, and Viador, who have chosen to leverage the technology benefits and customer opportunities provided by the Business Objects OPI.

The iManage infoCommerce Suite

The iManage infoCommerce product suite comprises powerful, leading-edge business-to-business and intra-business information and collaboration management solutions. The infoCommerce Suite is designed for enterprise-wide use in organizations seeking to deploy network-based and Internet-based information management solutions. iManage's software solutions are built on a flexible, three-tiered architecture that provides users with innovative, web browser-based interfaces to industry-accredited scalable servers. The iManage infoCommerce Suite includes the infoCommerce Server and infoLink, infoRite and infoLook applications.

About iManage, Inc.

Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., iManage, Inc. is a leading provider of e-business content and collaboration software platforms and applications for enterprises engaged in information commerce as part of their e-business strategy. The company's products provide a centralized web-based unified content platform for information and collaboration management, both for internal use and for use across the extended enterprise. For more information, please contact [e-mail] or visit our web site at www.imanage.com.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions. The company coined the term e-business intelligence in 1998 to describe the intersection of business intelligence and the internet. Using e-business intelligence, organizations can access, analyze, and share information in intranet, extranet, and e-business environments. In intranets, the company's products provide employees with information to make better business decisions, and are used in environments ranging from workgroups of 20 users to enterprise deployments exceeding 20,000. In the extranet environment, the company is pioneering the use of e-BI in applications that allow organizations to build stronger relationships by linking customers, partners, and suppliers via the internet. In addition, the company's products can improve the performance of an e-business by providing reporting and analysis against the ever-expanding amount of transaction and profile data that is collected each day throughout the world wide web.

Founded in 1990, Business Objects pioneered the modern business intelligence industry by inventing and patenting a "semantic layer" that insulates users from the technical complexity of database systems. Today, the company has over 11,500 customers in more than 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and PARIS BOURSE: code SICOVAM 12074, and 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.

Note to Editors: BusinessObjects is a Trademark and WebIntelligence is a registered trademark of Business Objects SA. iManage, the iManage logo, infoLook, infoRite, and iManage infoCommerce are all trademarks of iManage, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

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