Business Objects Joins Oracle Portal Partner Initiative.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)--July 26, 2000 Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, today announced its membership in the Oracle(R) Portal Partner Initiative with its business intelligence portal A corporate portal that enables users to query and produce reports on enterprise-wide databases. The term was coined by Information Advantage, makers of the MyEureka software, which was the first to combine BI software with a corporate portal. See MyEureka and BI software. , BusinessObjects(tm) InfoView. The Oracle Portal Partner Initiative brings together a community of leading companies that build, deliver, and support solutions built around Oracle Portal. As part of the initiative, these companies can collaborate with each other and receive training and marketing support from Oracle. Launched in May 2000, BusinessObjects InfoView collects and consolidates a company's business intelligence (BI) information and presents it in a secure, focused, and personalized view to business users. InfoView will seamlessly integrate as the business intelligence content provider into Oracle Portal. By working with Oracle and its portal partners, InfoView will offer customers a complete end-to-end, content-rich portal solution. "As long as information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. exists as a challenge for decision makers, the need for a solution to consolidate relevant information becomes more and more crucial. Enterprise information portals See corporate portal. help resolve this issue by providing a single point of access to information and applications people can use for a variety of daily activities," said Mark Tice, group vice president of global alliances at Business Objects. "As the industry's top e-business intelligence vendor, Business Objects is serving as the leading BI content provider in the enterprise portal See corporate portal. space. By partnering with Oracle, a leading e-business software provider, Business Objects further strengthens its leadership by adding to the wealth of technology and service developments around enterprise portals." "Portals provide the web infrastructure to make an e-business more efficient. Oracle Portal offers an open framework for managing and integrating content and applications from multiple sources," said Jeremy Burton, senior vice president, Oracle Product Marketing. "The integration of Business Objects business intelligence products with Oracle Portal will enable our mutual customers to access their Business Objects applications alongside their other web-based content and applications -- all from a single, browser-based portal environment." Oracle and Business Objects In 1999, Business Objects was among the first software vendors to meet the technical requirements of Oracle's product certification Product certification or product qualification is the process of certifying that a certain product has passed performance and/or quality assurance tests or qualification requirements stipulated in regulations such as a building code and nationally accredited test standards, program. BusinessObjects, the company's query, reporting, and analysis tool, received the "e-certified warehouse" designation by meeting the stringent integration requirements of the program. Oracle's product certification program helps customers distinguish software applications that easily integrate with Oracle's e-business warehouse products. 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 Semantic Layer The semantic layer is a business representation of corporate data that helps end users access data autonomously using common business terms. Developed and patented by Business Objects, it maps complex data into familiar business terms such as product, " that insulates users from the technical complexity of database systems. Today, the company has sold more than 2,268,000 licenses to over 10,900 organizations in more than 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols 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 NASDAQ: BOBJ and PARIS BOURSE Paris Bourse National stock market of France. : code SICOVAM SICOVAM Société Interprofessionelle pour la Compensation des Valeurs Mobilières 12074, and 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: Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects SA. WebIntelligence is a registered trademark 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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