Business Objects Delivers BusinessObjects Personal Trainer; Industry's first mass-customized training solution for large-scale decision support deployments.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)--June 30, 1998--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 enterprise decision support tools, today announced BusinessObjects Personal Trainer personal trainer person n → (persönlicher) Fitnesstrainer m, (persönliche) Fitnesstrainerin f (tm), a new computer based training (CBT (Computer-Based Training) Using the computer for training and instruction. CBT programs are called "courseware" and provide interactive training sessions for all disciplines. ) product. BusinessObjects Personal Trainer allows organizations to get the most value from their decision support investment by ensuring that users can exploit the industry's leading decision support product, BusinessObjects(tm), to its fullest potential. BusinessObjects Personal Trainer enables customers to train a large, diverse, and mobile user population. The product first assesses a user's unique business needs and current product skill level, and then develops a personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. training plan that is fully integrated with BusinessObjects 4.1. The administrator can supervise the progress and performance of each user to gauge how well his user community is exploiting the full power of BusinessObjects. For example, the administrator can track overall time spent in training and users' increased competency-level with BusinessObjects. "With BusinessObjects Personal Trainer, Business Objects is demonstrating their leadership in enterprise decision support, as one of the first vendors in their space to offer a computer based training product," said Teresa Wingfield, Senior Industry Analyst, Giga Information Group. "I see a key need for a training product like this, which will be a tremendous benefit to companies who are deploying large scale, enterprise-wide decision support systems." "As an experienced leader in large enterprise deployments, we understand what goes into implementing a decision support system to hundreds or thousands of users," said Bernard Liautaud Bernard Liautaud is chairman and chief strategy officer of Business Objects. Liautaud cofounded Business Objects in 1990 and was chief executive officer until September 2005. , 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. "Ease of use has always been a key advantage of the Business Objects solution. We believe that ease of learning is also a very important element of success for our customers. BusinessObjects Personal Trainer is a new and innovative way for business users to learn how to take best advantage of BusinessObjects, and understand how to access, analyze, and share corporate information more quickly and easily. We believe it will be a key factor for the success and speed of deployment of our enterprise decision support solutions." Pricing and Availability BusinessObjects Personal Trainer is available now. Pricing is $150 per user. BusinessObjects Personal Trainer has been co-developed with PRO'TRAINING, a leading developer of corporate multimedia training software. BusinessObjects Personal Trainer is part of a family of training products and services, offering customers flexibility in Business Objects training. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools. Business Objects products provide non-technical business users with access to information stored in data warehouses, data marts A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. , and packaged business applications. Business Objects provides a complete suite of decision support tools including query, reporting, 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. , data mining, and DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S administration for both client/server and internet environments. Business Objects has sold more than 780,000 licenses to over 6,200 organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide. Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408-953-6000 or on the worldwide web at http://www.BusinessObjects.com. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors BOBJY. BusinessObjects and BusinessObjects Personal Trainer are trademarks 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 800-414-2114 and selecting option "two." The announcement may also be downloaded from the Web; access "http://www.businesswire.com/cnn" and search on "Business Objects." Business Objects product inquiries should contact 800-527-0580.
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