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Business Objects Named to Business 2.0's 100 Fastest-Growing Technology Companies List.


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. & PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology
Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt.
 -- Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ) (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.  ISIN Isin (ĭs`ĭn), capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 B.C.). The phase from c.2025–c.1763 B.C.  code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that it has been named to the Business 2.0 100 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies list. The ranking, which appears in the June 2006 issue of Business 2.0, is based on growth in revenue, profit, and operating cash flow Operating cash flow

Earnings before depreciation minus taxes. Measures the cash generated from operations, not counting capital spending or working capital requirements.
 during the past three years, and the twelve-month stock return as of December 31, 2005.

"Business Objects' inclusion in the Business 2.0 100 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies list is an important reflection of our sustained success over the past three years," said John SchwarzJohn F. Schwarz is the name of:
  • John Schwarz, chief executive officer of Business Objects
  • John Schwarz, Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, from 1889 to 1891
  • John Henry Schwarz (born 1941), American theoretical physicist
, 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. "This achievement is based on several factors -- our constant innovation, our relentless focus on customer success, and our ability to deliver solutions that help our customers innovate and solve business problems that improve their bottom line. There is no limit to how our software can be applied to change a business or an industry, and our customers prove this again and again every day."

A great example of how business intelligence leads to business innovation is Emergency Medical Associates (EMA (1) (Enterprise Management Architecture) An earlier strategic plan from Digital for integrating network, system and application management. It provided the operating environment for managing a multi-vendor network. ), a physician-owned, privately held medical group that manages 17 hospital emergency rooms in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan areas. EMA uses customized dashboards from Business Objects to scour scour, scours

1. the chemical and physical cleaning of fleece wool.

2. diarrhea.


dietetic scour
see dietary diarrhea.

peat scour
see secondary nutritional copper deficiency.
 for unusual spikes in various medical symptoms Where available, ICD-10 codes are listed. When codes are available both as a sign/symptom (R code) and as an underlying condition, the code for the sign is used.
  • General
  • cachexia (R64)
 reported in the emergency rooms, providing the first fully functional, widespread biosurveillance system in the United States. For example, every winter EMA uses Business Objects to track for spikes in flu symptoms in order to alert other hospitals to the potential of a widespread flu epidemic.

"BusinessObjects(TM) XI is much more than a software solution," said Jonathan Rothman, director of data management at Emergency Medical Associates. "It is a change agent for us -- we can create dashboards to literally track anything our medical teams want to analyze and improve. This gives us real insights that allow us to make changes that constantly improve the quality and cost effectiveness of our care. Every day our physicians and emergency room directors are coming up with innovative ways to apply the software."

BusinessObjectsXI Release 2, the latest version of the Business Objects business intelligence platform, exemplifies the company's focus on innovation, by introducing creative new products like BusinessObjects Intelligent Question. A breakthrough product that allows anyone to intuitively ask business questions and receive correct answers, Intelligent Question extends business intelligence to an entirely new audience of non-technical users. This is another milestone in providing customers with a foundation to innovate their businesses by unlocking information and delivering it widely to employees, partners, suppliers, and customers.

To read more about the Business 2.0 100 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies list, please visit http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/b2fastestgrowing/

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 35,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com.

Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, WebIntelligence, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A. or its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies

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Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way.

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An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary.
 in the United States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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