Business Objects Makes Fleet Tracking "Fleet Easy" for Leading European Leasing Firm, Interleasing France.

Business/High-Tech Editors

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001

Innovative Extranet Improves both Customer Service Productivity and

Customer Satisfaction

Interleasing France, a company specializing in long-term vehicle leasing, is expanding its existing use of Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJ), the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, with an extranet that puts decision-making tools in the hands of fleet managers to help maximize the value of their customer data. The extranet, which is in full operation today, is based on a sales transaction with Business Objects that occurred last year.

The extranet, known as Fleet Easy, is powered by WEBINTELLIGENCE(R), the query, reporting, and analysis solution for the internet from Business Objects. Fleet Easy is a secure extranet designed specifically for large companies looking to improve the real-time management and tracking of their leased vehicles. Interleasing France currently has more than 17,000 vehicles under lease. The extranet powered by Business Objects solutions gives clients one-stop access to important data, such as where the vehicle has been, the length of time for each delivery, maintenance history and mileage. The extranet also provides fleet-wide information, such as inventory, makes and models, mileage, and contract duration.

"Online, real-time vehicle management helps our clients better manage their fleets both financially and operationally," said Alain Seibert, managing director of Interleasing France. "It sets us apart by delivering innovative services and opens up new business opportunities."

The Fleet Easy extranet offers three main benefits:

-- Increased Productivity - In the past, Interleasing France account assistants
would spend upwards of 30 percent of their time answering client questions.
Now, that information is generated automatically by both standard and
personalized reports based on specific requests. Fleet Easy offers services
such as vehicle management, real-time delivery tracking, and online
modification of leases. Improved efficiency among account assistants equals
improved and timely service for Interleasing France customers.

-- Added Value to Clients - Interleasing France recently added an "Easy Price"
service as part of Fleet Easy. Easy Price is a real-time pricing tool that
automatically client discounts in online quotes. Clients are able to price new
leases whenever they want, instead of waiting to call during business hours,
which dramatically improves customer service and satisfaction.

-- Additional Revenue - Interleasing France is attracting additional customers
with Fleet Easy. The extranet is part of the company's worldwide strategy of
expanding internet sales by using e-business intelligence to revolutionize the
long-term leasing business and maximize revenue.

"This is yet another example of how business intelligence extranets can help companies improve their customer satisfaction and reduce their customer service costs using extranets," said Dave Kellogg, senior vice president of marketing for Business Objects. "In addition to these benefits, applications such as Fleet Easy also provide sustainable differentiation to Interleasing France's fleet management services offerings and provide opportunities for new sources of revenue. That's why BI extranets are the fastest growing segment of the BI market and one that we are proud to have pioneered by working with leading organizations such as Interleasing France."

Interleasing France is the latest company to join the more than 475 customers who have already built an extranet application based on Business Objects.

About Interleasing France

Interleasing France is a leader in the French long-term leasing market. Founded in 1977, Interleasing France became a subsidiary of Societe Generale in 2001. Interleasing France has over 20,000 vehicles under lease. Its revenue in 2000 was FF751 million and is estimated at FF850 million in 2001.

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" that insulates users from the technical complexity of database systems. Today, the company has over 13,000 customers in more than 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris: code Euroclear France 12074, and included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408-953-6000 and http://www.businessobjects.com.

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.

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