Business Objects Names New Vice President of Latin America.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2003

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that it has named Diego Gabriel Gomez to the position of vice president, Latin America. In this position, Gomez will focus on expanding and strengthening the company's presence in Latin America. Gomez reports to Jon Temple, senior vice president and general manager, Americas, and is based in the company's Miami, Florida office.

Gomez joins Business Objects with more than 15 years of experience in high technology sales and executive management in the software industry. Most recently, Gomez was the vice president and general manager for northern Latin America and the Caribbean at PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT). Prior to that he held other positions within PeopleSoft, including vice president of international operations, and director of operations, sales and marketing for southern Latin America. Gomez also worked for IBM Argentina and was responsible for building the new Application Business Unit from the ground up within IBM Argentina.

"Diego Gomez has a successful background in the enterprise software industry and is an excellent addition to our management team," said Temple, senior vice president and general manager for Business Objects Americas. "Business Objects has built a strong presence in Latin America, and Diego will play a fundamental role in continuing to grow our operations in this important region."

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading provider of enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business Objects enables organizations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance. The company's solutions leverage the information that is stored in an array of corporate databases, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems.

Popular uses of BI include management dashboards and scorecards, enterprise performance management applications, customer intelligence applications, enterprise reporting, financial reporting, and both customer and partner extranets. These solutions enable companies to gain visibility into their business, acquire and retain profitable customers, reduce costs, optimize the supply chain, increase productivity and improve financial performance.

Business Objects provides the industry's most integrated business intelligence suite, called BusinessObjects Enterprise 6. This suite includes the industry's best web query, reporting, and analysis; the most advanced and complete suite of analytic applications; and the best connectivity to packaged applications.

Business Objects has more than 17,500 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (Euroclear code 12074). It is included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408/953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com.

BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects S.A. in the United States and/or other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.