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Business Objects Expands Mid-Market Offerings with New Business Intelligence Solution Bundles.


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 -- Integrated Performance Management, Reporting, and Data Integration Solutions Designed for Mid-Market Organizations with Aggressive Growth but Tight Budgets

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA )(Euronext Paris Euronext Paris is France's securities market, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, which merged with the Amsterdam and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV, which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange.  ISIN Isin (ĭs`ĭn), capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 B.C.). The phase from c.2025–c.1763 B.C.  code: FR0004026250 -- BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the launch of six mid-market solution bundles. These new offerings, which combine software for performance management, reporting, and data integration, provide complete BI solutions to meet the needs of mid-market organizations.

The six solution bundles announced today expand the scope of Business Objects mid-market offerings to include solutions that leverage BusinessObjects XI, the company's industry-leading business intelligence platform, and include software for data integration, reporting, and creating dashboards. These integrated solutions provide the ease of implementation, deployment, and management required by mid-market organizations to keep their costs down, while delivering the scalability of the BusinessObjects(TM) XI platform to grow with their organization over time.

The six new Business Objects mid-market solution bundles are available for 10, 25, or 50 users. The solutions are aligned with specific needs of mid-market organizations, including bundles designed for business growth, improved efficiency, improved customer information access, and regulatory compliance. Specifically, the six bundles available are: Dashboard Bundle, Data to Dashboard Bundle, Reporting Bundle, Live Office Bundle, Query and Analysis Bundle, and Compliance Bundle.

Business Objects has built the BI industry's strongest and most diverse partner network, and value-added resellers will play a key role in delivering these new solution bundles to the market. Resellers will help Business Objects target several key vertical industries, including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 for business intelligence solutions that are designed to meet their specific and unique requirements," said Taylor Courtnay, 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 Decision First Technologies, the Business Objects 2004 VAR Partner of the Year. "To date, most of these mid-sized companies have had to deal with traditional one size fits all enterprise BI solutions. Business Objects has clearly taken the lead in delivering BI solutions targeted specifically at the mid-market that deliver the powerful functionality of an enterprise solution, at a cost that works within the budget constraints of a mid-sized organization. There is a definite need for these solutions in the market, and we expect to see healthy demand from customers for these solutions."

"With a sales force dedicated to the mid-market, and an ecosystem of leading VAR partners delivering these new solution bundles, Business Objects is unique in providing targeted BI solutions to the mid-market," said Juliette Sultan, vice president of Americas marketing at Business Objects. "After building transactional databases on heterogeneous systems and increasing their dependency on technology over the past few years, mid-market companies are looking for Looking for

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 solutions to easily integrate their data for reporting and performance management. Our new solution bundles enable these companies to extract value from their corporate data and monitor key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action.  for their business to sustain their aggressive growth and optimize performance."

In January, Business Objects launched an expanded mid-market initiative to deliver business intelligence solutions to mid-market organizations. The first product offering from this initiative was Crystal Reports(R) Server XI, a complete reporting solution launched in January that includes everything small to medium-sized organizations need to create, manage, and deliver reports over the web.

Availability

The six solution bundles are available today in the Americas, and are expected to be rolled out worldwide in the future. For more information on Business Objects solutions for the mid-market, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/BI_for_Midmarket/.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete platform for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. . Business Objects has built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and also offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 -- BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com.

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