Business Objects Launches E-business Intelligence Seminar Series With PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Allegiance Healthcare.Business Editors/High-Tech, Health &Medical 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)--Feb. 8, 2000 Multi-City Tour will Demonstrate How e-Business Intelligence is Helping Companies Drive Revenue Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, today announced a seminar series with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Allegiance allegiance, in political terms, the tie that binds an individual to another individual or institution. The term usually refers to a person's legal obligation of obedience to a government in return for the protection of that government, although it may have reference Healthcare. The six-city tour, scheduled to begin on February 24 in the 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 area, will demonstrate how companies in several industries can use e-BI to achieve mission-critical goals, increase revenues, and streamline operations. Attendees of the half-day sessions will learn how e-BI is an essential component to any e-business infrastructure and how leading Fortune 500 companies are building these solutions. The presentations will focus on how e-BI can help customers, partners, and suppliers increase revenues, reduce costs, and drive customer satisfaction and competitive advantage. Executives from Business Objects and PricewaterhouseCoopers will discuss the business impact of e-BI and implementing best practices. In addition, data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse executives from Allegiance Healthcare, a 4.5 billion dollar a year medical and surgical supplier, will share a first-hand account of its e-BI experience, as well as demonstrating its healthcare extranet application, asap-e.com entelligence. &uot;Business Objects tools are the cornerstone of our e-business intelligence infrastructure, allowing us to extend the benefits of information access to our customers,&uot; said Mark Ciekutis, data warehouse manager for Allegiance Healthcare. &uot;We are already receiving positive responses. Customers like the immediate access to information and are already making cost-saving decisions.&uot;
Registration, Dates, and Locations
-- February 24, San Francisco area (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hyatt
Rickey's
-- February 29, Chicago area (Rosemont, Ill.), O'Hare International
Conference Center
-- February 29, Houston, The Westin Galleria &Oaks
-- March 1, Atlanta, Lenox Inn Buckhead
-- March 1, Washington, D.C. area, Crystal City Marriott
-- March 2, New York City, The NY Hilton &Towers
To register for the Business Objects/PricewaterhouseCoopers/Allegiance Healthcare e-BI seminar, visit www.businessobjects.com/ebiatwork/ or call 1-800-527-0580. &uot;Many leading companies have successfully deployed 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,&uot; said Alex Moissis, vice president of Americas marketing for Business Objects. &uot;As companies integrate this data with their e-business initiatives, they will realize enhanced customer relationships, competitive advantage, and greater revenue opportunities.&uot; About PricewaterhouseCoopers PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com) is the world's leading professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organization. Drawing on the knowledge and skills of more than 150,000 people in 150 countries, we help our clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk and improve performance. PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the member firms of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organization. About Allegiance Healthcare Allegiance Healthcare Corporation of McGaw Park, Illinois, is a leading U.S. provider of health-care products and cost-management services. Allegiance is a subsidiary of Cardinal Health <includeonly></includeonly> Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) is a premier, global healthcare company dedicated to making healthcare safer and more productive. Overview Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. , Inc., a Fortune 100 corporation based in Dublin, Ohio Dublin is a city in Delaware, Franklin, and Union counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 31,392 at the 2000 census. In 2006, the population was estimated to be 36,565[1], and Dublin continues to be one of the fastest-growing suburbs of Columbus. . Cardinal is a leading provider of services supporting health care. The company offers a broad array of complementary products and services to health-care providers and manufacturers to help them improve the efficiency and quality of health care. These services include pharmaceutical distribution (Cardinal Distribution and National Specialty Services, Inc.), health-care product manufacturing, distribution and consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" (Allegiance Corporation), drug delivery systems development (R.P. Scherer Corporation), contract manufacturing (Automatic Liquid Packaging, Inc.), pharmaceutical packaging and repackaging (PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Services, Inc. and National PharmPak Services, Inc.), automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. dispensing dispensing provision of drugs or medicines as set out properly on a lawful prescription. A prescription can only be filled, the drugs supplied, by a registered pharmacist, veterinarian, dentist or member of the medical profession. systems manufacturing (Pyxis Corporation), hospital pharmacy A hospital pharmacy is concerned with pharmacy service to all types of hospital and differs considerably from a community pharmacy. Some pharmacists in hospital pharmacies may have more complex clinical medication management issues whereas pharmacists in community management (Owen Healthcare, Inc.), retail pharmacy franchising (Medicine Shoppe International, Inc.) and health-care information systems development (Cardinal Information Companies). The common shares of Cardinal Health, Inc. are a component of the Standard &Poor's 500 Index. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions. 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 &uot;semantic layer&uot; that insulates users from the technical complexity of database systems. Today, the company has sold more than 1,680,000 licenses to over 9,700 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. 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. 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 &uot;two.&uot; The announcement may also be downloaded from the web; access &uot;http://www.businesswire.com/cnn&uot; and search on &uot;Business Objects.&uot; Business Objects product inquiries should contact 800-527-0580. |
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