Business Objects Leads Business Intelligence Market in Scalability, Posts Recent Performance Test Results.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)--Jan. 23, 2002 Tests 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) Show Dramatic Performance Increase of BusinessObjects 2000 on IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. pSeries p680 Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today released the results of its most recent performance tests running on the IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. (TM) Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . With these test results Business Objects once again demonstrates its focus on scalable BI solutions for the enterprise. Tests performed at the IBM performance center simulated users reading and refreshing a variety of reports with thousands of rows and multiple calculations. These tests supported up to 6,000 active concurrent users hitting the server and included a think time of 10 seconds. This workload could correspond to a total population of 72,000 to hundreds of thousands of users, depending on usage patterns. "We are pleased to work with Business Objects to help them push the scalability limits of their solutions and to help pave the way for large-scale deployments," said David Gelardi, IBM director IBM Director is an element management system (EMS) (sometimes referred to as a "workgroup management system") first introduced by IBM in 1993 as NetFinity Manager. The software was originally written to run on OS/2 2.0. of eServer benchmarking. "These new results prove their dedication to creating and supporting enterprise environments that scale to reach enterprise proportions of tens of thousands of users. It is this commitment to the enterprise-level customers that makes us pleased to work with Business Objects." "Our customers are constantly increasing their hardware, software, and usage requirements. Thus we continually work with IBM, one of our most strategic partners, to tune our products to ensure we are providing the most robust and scalable solution for our joint customers, not only to meet their requirements today, but to be ready for their future needs," said Mark Tice, group vice president of global alliances at Business Objects. "We're extremely pleased with these latest benchmarking results. In addition, we are happy to have run early functional tests on the latest IBM server p690, code-named Regatta regatta: see rowing; sailing. A high-end Unix-based pSeries server from IBM. Introduced in late 2001, the model p690 incorporates mainframe class self healing capabilities and partitioning to the pSeries (RS/6000) family for the first time. ." BusinessObjects 2000 is a strategic business intelligence (BI) platform and integrated BI toolset that enables users to access, analyze, and share information within and beyond the enterprise. It has been carefully designed to be easy to use, and it has been architected to be secure, scalable, and extensible. BusinessObjects 2000 includes the key products BusinessObjects(TM) InfoView, WebIntelligence(R), BusinessObjects, and BusinessObjects Broadcast Agent(TM). Additional Test Details BusinessObjects 2000 ran on a fully loaded IBM pSeries p680 server with 24 CPUs. For additional information on the test results, please go to www.businessobjects.com/resources/ar/ibm_performance-test2002.pdf. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business intelligence lets organizations access, analyze, and share information internally with employees and externally with customers, suppliers, and partners. Business intelligence helps organizations improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings. The company's products include BusinessObjects 2000, the industry's leading integrated business intelligence toolset and platform, and BusinessObjects Analytics, an integrated suite of enterprise analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. . Business Objects pioneered the modern BI industry in 1990 by inventing a patented "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 complexity of databases. In 1995, the company was first to focus on enterprise-scale BI deployments and today supports customers with more than 20,000 users. The company moved aggressively to the Internet in 1997 by pioneering the market for BI extranets, a market that it continues to lead today. In 2000, the company delivered the industry's first interactive wireless BI solution. Today, Business Objects continues to innovate, creating and delivering a unique vision for enterprise analytic applications. Business Objects has more than 14,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and 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. : code Euroclear France 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: BusinessObjects, BusinessObjects InfoView, BusinessObjects Broadcast Agent, and WebIntelligence are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A. 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 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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