Business Objects Expands Relationship with PeopleSoft.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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)--April 23, 2003 PeopleSoft Obtains Rights to Resell Business Objects Business Intelligence Software for Use with the PeopleSoft EPM EPM equine protozoal myeloencephalitis. Suite Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), a leading provider of enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that PeopleSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) has signed a Value-Added Reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. agreement with Business Objects. The new agreement allows PeopleSoft to resell WebIntelligence(R), the web-based query, reporting, and analysis solution from Business Objects, for use with PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), a suite of applications that provide organizations with real-time visibility into critical business processes. The key to successfully managing enterprise performance is to align the organization with common goals, manage metrics, and ultimately drive action. This requires analytics and methodology to understand which metrics are important and how they should be measured. Implementing PeopleSoft EPM with WebIntelligence would enhance an organization's ability to rapidly perform advanced analysis of the data that resides in the PeopleSoft Enterprise Warehouse and gain the insights necessary to improve the performance of their business. "PeopleSoft EPM rapidly aligns strategic goals with operational execution to help organizations react quickly to unexpected changes in business conditions," said Chuck Teller, vice president and general manager, PeopleSoft Enterprise Solutions Group. "The ability to offer WebIntelligence as an optional front-end to our EPM suite would provide customers with a powerful tool to perform real-time advance query, reporting, and analysis on their corporate data." "Business intelligence software is a key factor in improving enterprise performance by enabling the application of analytics across the entire organization," commented Mark Tice, group vice president of worldwide channel sales at Business Objects. "Combining PeopleSoft EPM with WebIntelligence provides organizations with the tools necessary to access and analyze data, and track 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. from every department in the organization, delivering the visibility necessary to make better business decisions and ensure the entire organization achieves top performance." About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business Objects enables organizations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance. The company's solutions leverage the information that is stored in an array of corporate databases, enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ), and customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) systems. Popular uses of BI include management dashboards and scorecards, enterprise performance management applications, customer intelligence applications, enterprise reporting, financial reporting, and both customer and partner extranets. These solutions enable companies to gain visibility into their business, acquire and retain profitable customers, reduce costs, optimize the supply chain, increase productivity and improve financial performance. Business Objects provides the industry's most integrated business intelligence suite, called BusinessObjects(TM) Enterprise 6. This suite includes the industry's best web query, reporting, and analysis; the most advanced and complete suite of analytic applications; and the best connectivity to packaged applications. Business Objects has more than 17,500 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 SBF Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (Franciscan School of Biblical Investigations; Jerusalem, Israel) SBF Small Block Ford (automotive engine) SBF Single Black Female SBF Société des Bourses Francaises 120 and IT CAC See Consumer Advisory Council. 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 in the United States and/or other countries. PeopleSoft is a registered trademark of PeopleSoft, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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