Business Objects Named as One of the Most Influential Companies in Information Technology by Intelligent Enterprise Magazine.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)--Dec. 11, 2002 2003 Ranking Marks 7th Consecutive Year Business Objects Selected to Prestigious List For a seventh consecutive year, Business Objects has been recognized by Intelligent Enterprise magazine as one of the most influential companies in information technology. Today Intelligent Enterprise named Business Objects, (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, to its 2003 "Intelligent Enterprise Dozen" list. The Dozen highlights companies doing the most to enable the development of "intelligent" enterprises that use technology to improve business performance. For the second straight year, Business Objects placed in the top five. Other companies named to "The Dozen" include 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) , Microsoft, Oracle, and PeopleSoft. "Business Objects has demonstrated skill in helping organizations function more intelligently through leveraging data resources. The company's commitment, revealed in the development of innovative products, gives it the focus to lead customers into the next phase of strategic activities that are now possible, such as collaborative business intelligence and business performance management (BPM)," said David Stodder, editorial director of Intelligent Enterprise. "We recognize Business Objects leadership by selecting the company as a member of the 2003 Dozen." Business Objects has earned this recognition from Intelligent Enterprise by helping customers gain greater visibility into all areas of their business, from sales, to finance, to customer relationships. Since the company was founded in 1990, Business Objects has focused on providing all employees in an organization with the ability to access, analyze, and share valuable corporate information. In addition, Business Objects provides customers the ability to track and monitor the performance of the company, meaning organizations can spot, and act on, issues much more quickly, and are therefore able to more closely control the overall performance of the organization. Business Objects has also continued to strengthen its record of innovation by creating new ways for organizations to benefit from business intelligence. From extranets -- in which a company can share vital information with its customers, partners, and suppliers, to 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. -- where customers can use business intelligence solutions to address specific business challenges, all represent Business Objects commitment to helping organizations make the most of their information. In addition, readers of Data News, one of Europe's leading IT publications, selected Business Objects as the "Analytic Tool of the Year" for the second straight year. Business Objects won this distinction over its competitors Cognos and SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. . "Both the Intelligent Enterprise Dozen and the Data News Award are further validation that Business Objects is one of the most influential companies in enterprise software, and that companies around the world are turning to us for their strategic business intelligence investments," said Bernard Liautaud Bernard Liautaud is chairman and chief strategy officer of Business Objects. Liautaud cofounded Business Objects in 1990 and was chief executive officer until September 2005. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Business Objects. "It is rewarding and motivating to see our vision for business intelligence being put into practice in a range of industries, across companies of all sizes. Customers are truly embracing the power of business intelligence, extending it to every employee, customer, and supplier, and using our latest offerings, such as business performance dashboards, or analytic applications. We look forward to working with our customers and partners in the years to come to help them continue to derive more value from their business intelligence investments -- and achieve their business performance goals in a difficult economy." An in-depth feature about The Dozen will appear in the January 2003 edition of Intelligent Enterprise, as well as at www.intelligententerprise.com. About Intelligent Enterprise Published 18 times annually, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of 100,000 business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, enhance business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships. Intelligent Enterprise provides both the context and the technical detail needed to take strategic business applications from concept to deployment, covering such interlocking interlocking /in·ter·lock·ing/ (-lok´ing) closely joined, as by hooks or dovetails; locking into one another. interlocking Obstetrics A rare complication of vaginal delivery of twins; the 1st technology categories as: application development, business intelligence and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , data management, enterprise application integration, enterprise/e-business applications, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and customer analytics, knowledge management, scalable server hardware, enterprise storage, and systems and applications management. For more information, contact Tara Gibb at 650-513-4566 or tgibb@cmp.com. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at www.IntelligentEnterprise.com. 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. It helps organizations improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings. The company's products include data integration tools, the industry's leading integrated business intelligence platform, and a suite of enterprise analytic applications. Business Objects is the first to offer a complete BI solution that is composed of best-of-breed components, giving organizations the means to deploy end-to-end BI to the enterprise, from data extraction Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). to analytic applications. Business Objects has more than 16,500 customers in over 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 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. (Euroclear code 12074). It is 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 is a trademark or registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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