Business Objects Announces Webcast Interview With CEO Bernard Liautaud.

Business Editors, Technology Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2001

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Bernard Liautaud, will appear in a webcast interview with David Mahoney, B2B Applications Analyst at Wit SoundView Group, Inc.

The 20-minute discussion encompasses Business Objects market opportunity, product solutions, competitive advantages, and unique business model. The interview will be webcast on the Wit SoundView web site (www.witsoundview.com) on Tuesday, February 27, 2001 at 8 a.m. (EST). It will also be made available simultaneously at (www.yahoo.finance.com), (www.etrade.com) and by logging onto the company website at (www.businessobjects.com) and clicking on "Investor Relations."

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 12,400 customers in more than 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris: 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.