Business Objects Lauds Key Partners for Outstanding Contributions and Commitment to Business Intelligence.Accenture, Andrews Consulting Group, APOS APOS American Psychosocial Oncology Society APOS After Point of Sales APOS Acoustic Processor Operating Station APOS Advanced Process Oriented Steering Systems, Decision First Technologies, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Info Providers, Netezza, Realm Business Solutions, Softmart, and The Woodburn Group Honored at Business Objects Americas Partner Summit 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 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 its 2007 Americas Partner Excellence Award winners. The Business Objects Partner Excellence Awards recognize Business Objects partners for their tremendous contributions to deploying solutions based on Business Objects technology, as well as for their leadership, innovation, and commitment to helping companies reap the business-transforming benefits of business intelligence. The awards were formally presented at the annual Business Objects Americas Partner Summit, held last week in Charleston, South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . "Business Objects has an unmatched organization of global partners, which we rely on to bring specific industry expertise, deployment experience, and a rich history of developing innovative solutions for customers looking to leverage the power of intelligent information," said Janet Wood Janet Wood (now Dawson) is a fictional character on the television sitcom Three's Company played by Joyce DeWitt. Introduction Janet is from Speedway, Indiana. She has a sister named Jenny and a brother whose name was never mentioned. , senior vice president of global partnerships and sales enablement Sales enablement at its core is maximizing the sales organization’s ability to communicate value and differentiation in clear, consistent and compelling ways. Or without quite as many buzzwords, it is... 1. ... at Business Objects. "Each year, we recognize a select group of these companies with our Partner Excellence Awards, which are presented to those organizations that stand out among their peers for drive, dedication, and thought-leadership in the business intelligence industry." At the Partner Summit awards ceremony, Business Objects honored top partner performers from the Americas in a variety of categories, including: Most Innovative Use of Technology: Distinguishes the partner that leveraged or integrated Business Objects technology with other applications in the most innovative way to solve challenging customer requirements. This year's award went to APOS Systems for their outstanding efforts in creating an Integration Kit that unites BusinessObjects XI Release 2 with ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. , the #1 GIS mapping software. Solution Provider Partner of the Year: Honors the Solution Provider Partner that delivered the most incremental license revenue while also significantly expanding their customer portfolio, attaining high marks in teamwork and executing successful, integrated marketing programs. The Solution Provide Partner of the year is Decision First Technologies, which was recognized for the third year in a row after achieving the top revenue results of any North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Solution Provider Partner. Reseller Partner of the Year: Distinguishes the Business Objects Reseller who achieved top revenue contribution and most significantly extended Business Objects' customer reach. The winner this year was Softmart, which was recognized for achieving record growth and increasing year-over-year revenues an impressive 45 percent by offering broader and deeper solutions to their customers. OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Partner of the Year: Honors the Business Objects partner who delivers the most compelling application leveraging Business Objects technology. Realm Business Solutions, Inc. was the winner for achieving an impressive 78 percent growth in OEM revenues year over year with Realm INSIGHT XI. Realm achieved this growth by helping its customers improve business performance by enabling them to track, understand, and manage business goals and strategy all the while lowering TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. through a standardized BI infrastructure. Realm was a leader in adopting BusinessObjects XI Premium and extending Business Objects Performance Management capabilities for new customers and, soon after, migrating to BusinessObjects XI Release 2 Premium to help customers transition from older versions. Technology Partner of the Year: Honors the Business Objects partner who delivers the most compelling stand-alone application leveraging Business Objects technology. The Business Objects Technology Partner of the Year is Netezza Corporation. Netezza provides a formally supported data warehouse platform by Business Objects, and has highly optimized data connections with BusinessObjects XI Release 2, including the popular BusinessObjects Data Integrator Business Objects's Data Integrator is a data integration and ETL tool that was previously known as Acta. The Data Integrator product consists primarily of a Data Integrator Job Server and the Data Integrator Designer. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. solution. Global Alliance Partner of the Year: Honors the partner that provided outstanding expertise in strategy, design, implementation, and customization services for Business Objects business intelligence solutions with key customers. The Business Objects Global Alliance Partner of the Year is Accenture. Accenture is being recognized for its notable customer successes, solution innovation, and partner support. As information pioneers, Accenture's world class consulting organization has worked with Business Objects to build successful new joint assets and solutions for specific industries including: Federal Financials, Data Quality Assessment, Metrics Management System, and Performance Business Intelligence for Accenture Communication Solutions. Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. Partner of the Year: Recognizes the Business Objects partner that worked collaboratively with Business Objects to drive the most significant market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women" and customer satisfaction in Latin America. The winner is Info Providers, Inc., which has experienced significant successes by leveraging extensive knowledge of the Consumer Packaged Goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one industry. Education Services Partner of the Year: Recognizes the Business Objects partner that delivered the most onsite and public education services revenue, executed excellent class participation rates, and consistently achieved top customer satisfaction ratings. The winner of this year's award is The Woodburn Group. The Woodburn Group was recognized for the second year in a row for exemplifying what it means to be an outstanding Authorized Education Partner through their commitment to achieving, and over-achieving, both their Public Training and Onsite Training targets while also making customer service a key priority. Best Enterprise Implementation: Recognizes the partner that delivered the year's most outstanding implementation at an enterprise customer, as measured by the impact of the solution in solving the customer's business requirements, providing overall customer satisfaction, and delivering rapid time to value. IBM won the Best Enterprise Implementation award for their implementation with a leading energy provider. By collaborating services expertise in utilities, enterprise process, analytics, and business intelligence, IBM and Business Objects delivered a solution that tracks power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
Best Mid-Market Implementation: Recognizes the partner that delivered the year's most outstanding implementation at a mid-market customer, as measured by the impact of the solution in solving the customer's business requirements, overall customer satisfaction, and rapid time to value. This year's winner is Andrews Consulting Group, which was recognized for its implementation at a leading premium winemaker. Using its product RapidDecision[R], a pre-built data warehouse and data mart 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. solution for JD Edwards See J.D. Edwards. , Andrews Consulting sped the integration of Business Objects ultimately delivering the customer greater access to critical business information and faster time to value. For more information regarding the Business Objects partner program, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/partners/. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 42,000 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 See information 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, Crystal Decisions, Web Intelligence, 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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