Business Objects Launches E-Business Seminar Series with IBM.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)--Aug. 3, 1999-- Multi-City Tour Will Demonstrate How to Deploy E-Business (Electronic-BUSINESS) Doing business online. The term is often used synonymously with e-commerce, but e-business is more of an umbrella term for having a presence on the Web. Intelligence Technologies to Gain Competitive Advantage Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, today announced a series of seminars on deploying e-business intelligence applications with 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) . The seven-city tour will demonstrate how companies can use extranets to extend information access beyond the boundaries of the organization. Attendees of the half-day sessions will hear from IBM and Business Objects executives and walk away with an e-business intelligence information kit. The presentations will focus on how to leverage extranet and business intelligence technologies to gain a competitive edge and improve relationships with customers, partners, and suppliers. Executives from Business Objects and IBM will present on topics including "Turning Data into Dollars" and "10 Critical Success Factors for Delivering E-Business Intelligence." The two companies will also present an integrated product demonstration featuring:
-- WebIntelligence(TM) 2.5, a new version of the Business Objects
integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing
(OLAP) solution for the web
-- IBM Visual Warehouse and DB2 Universal Database -- the company's
scaleable warehouse infrastructure for supplying current, clean,
and reliable data -- and the world's leading scaleable, web-ready
relational database manager
"Companies looking to create or expand their e-business offerings will be able to learn a great deal from these upcoming seminars with Business Objects," said Jim Kelly For other persons named Jim Kelly, see Jim Kelly (disambiguation). James Edward Kelly (born February 14, 1960 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a former American football quarterback in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills. , vice president, data management marketing, IBM Software Solutions. "Web-deployed analysis applications powered by DB2 Universal Database and Visual Warehouse leverage the capabilities of WebIntelligence to deliver extremely scaleable, open e-business solutions." Dates and Locations
-- Aug. 4, San Francisco area (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Hotel
Sofitel
-- Aug. 10, Los Angeles, Sheraton Gateway Hotel
-- Aug. 10, New York, The Millenium Hilton
-- Aug. 11, Chicago area (Rosemont, Ill.), O'Hare International
Conference Center
-- Aug. 11, Washington, D.C., JW Marriott Hotel
-- Aug. 12, Atlanta, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel
-- Aug. 12, Toronto, The Westin Harbour Castle
Intelligent Enterprise's editor in chief David Stodder is also scheduled to be on-hand for the seminars at San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Chicago, and Toronto to discuss web and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse technology, including e-business intelligence applications. "Many leading companies have deployed successfully data warehouses and data marts 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. within their organizations and are reaping the benefits of enhanced productivity and improved decision making. But with the potential of e-business, it doesn't have to stop there," said Alex Moissis, vice president of marketing for Business Objects Americas. "Our seminar will demonstrate how WebIntelligence and Visual Warehouse can allow companies to quickly and easily open their data warehouse to partners, customers, and suppliers." To register for the joint Business Objects/IBM extranet seminar, visit www.businessobjects.com/ebusinesssuccess/ or call 800/527-0580. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools. Business Objects products p Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408/953-6000 or on the World Wide Web at http://www.businessobjects.com. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbol 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 BOBJ. Note to Editors: BusinessObjects and WebIntld contact 800/527-0580. |
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