Business Objects Honors Business Intelligence Visionaries; 2006 Insight Europe Customer Excellence Awards Recognize French Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry; Generali; Tesco plc; and UBS for Achievements in Business Intelligence.CANNES, France -- 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 solutions, today announced that the French Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry; Generali; Tesco plc; and UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System have been named the winners of the 2006 Insight Europe Customer Excellence Awards. The customer excellence awards recognize the outstanding achievements of these companies in using Business Objects solutions to improve their organization's performance. The awards were formally presented at Business Objects Insight Europe, the company's European User Conference, held this week in Cannes, France. "Our vision is to be a company that solves business problems -- to help our customers become high-performance organizations that transform data into a trusted information asset," said John Schwarz —John F. Schwarz is the name of:
Following is a brief description of this year's award winners: French Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry The French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry is the third largest ministry, with the responsibility to define and implement the economic, budgetary and industrial policies of the country. The ministry has been a Business Objects customer since 1997, when it deployed business intelligence to 9,000 users. This year, new French budget reform went into effect that introduces management by performance for the public sector. In this new context, the French Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry has selected the Business Objects BI platform to provide 26,500 central and local decision-makers throughout all 17 French ministries with better visibility on public spending, accounting, and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. management. The main benefits are optimized efficiency of state intervention and better quality of public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. . To help support this huge deployment, the ministry has also used BusinessObjects(TM) Knowledge Accelerator, a customizable web-based learning solution, to enable users to build their own customized reports without the need for additional IT help. Generali Generali Group, the leader in the Italian insurance market and third largest European insurer, has chosen Business Objects for its innovative IT project, SAIL. This project involves all the Italian companies This is a list of companies from Italy. Aerospace and Defence
Tesco plc Tesco is one of the leading international retailers worldwide, with more than 2,000 stores and 326,000 staff in 13 countries across Europe and Asia. Tesco has standardized on business intelligence solutions from Business Objects to support its expansion across the globe. Three years ago, Tesco launched an ambitious strategy to bring consistent systems and processes to all countries in the Tesco Group. Called 'Tesco in a Box,' this strategy relies on industry leading packages and bespoke be·spoke v. Past tense and a past participle of bespeak. adj. 1. Custom-made. Said especially of clothes. 2. Making or selling custom-made clothes: a bespoke tailor. development, to build a combined system and process package, which can be rolled out quickly to existing and new countries. Business Objects solutions provide a centralized management information system that allows the company to measure a single, consistent set of international key performance indicators. As a result, Tesco has rapid insight into global business performance which allows it to optimize operations, customer satisfaction, and competitive edge. UBS As one of the largest financial institutions in the world, UBS generates more than one billion transactions per month. In order to manage the company using the most up-to-date information, UBS was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an innovative reporting system; one that would be able to track key performance indicators for strategic management and further increase the company's flexibility and efficiency. Another goal of the process, named GEAR (Global Environment for Accounting and Reporting), was to integrate the two main systems used for financial accounting and controlling on a centralized platform. GEAR was a success, thanks to the powerful business intelligence solutions from Business Objects. The main systems for Financial Accounting and Controlling, which were previously separate, have been combined into a single system. Data is stored centrally and is available in all formats required for internal and external reports. The reporting system complies with external regulations, including IAS See iPlanet Application Server. 1. (computer) IAS - The first modern computer. It had main registers, processing circuits, information paths within the central processing unit, and used Von Neumann's fetch-execute cycle. , US GAAP GAAP See: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP See generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). , Sarbanes-Oxley, and Basel II Basel II is the second of the Basel Accords, which are recommendations on banking laws and regulations issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The purpose of Basel II is to create an international standard that banking regulators can use when creating regulations , as well as the internal reporting requirements at the customer, product, and profit center levels. Using Business Objects, UBS is more cost efficient and ensures more open and targeted teamwork between business areas. Such an extensive integrated reporting system has never before been implemented in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. sector. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 35,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and 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. The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Intelligent Question, and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects in the United States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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