Business Objects Opens Minneapolis Office; New North American Office Opened to Address Growing Demand for the Company's Leading Decision Support Tool.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)--Aug. 28, 1996--Business Objects (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ) tools, today announced the opening of an office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Minneapolis office is Business Objects' thirteenth direct sales office in North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. and was opened in response to strong demand for the company's flagship product, BusinessObjects, the world's leading integrated query, reporting, and OLAP tool. The other Business Objects North American sales offices are located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark, New York Newark is a village in Wayne County, New York, U.S., 30 miles (48 km) east by south of Rochester. The population was 9,682 at the 2000 census. The Village of Newark is in the south part of the Town of Arcadia and is in the south of Wayne County. , San Francisco, Toronto and Washington D.C. The company also has subsidiaries and direct sales offices across France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, the U.K., Australia, Japan, and throughout Asia. Serving the central region of the U.S., the Business Objects Minneapolis office is located at 8400 Normandale Lake Blvd., Suite 920, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The phone number is 612/921-4984 and the toll-free number for product inquiries is 800/527-0580. At the end of 1995, Business Objects concluded its fifth consecutive year of more than 100% growth in 1995, generating more than $60M in total revenue. BusinessObjects has been licensed in more than 50 countries to over 3,200 customer sites and 185,000 users worldwide. The company added 90,000 users in 1995 alone. About Business Objects Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY) is the world's leading supplier of integrated query, reporting, and OLAP tools. The company's flagship product, BusinessObjects, provides mainstream business users with access to information stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent decision support tools in 1990 by introducing the first product to use a "semantic layer" to map complex database schemas to a business representation understandable by non-technical end users. Business Objects led the overall decision support tools market in 1995 with software license revenues of $48.7M. Business Objects generated over $60M in revenue in 1995, concluding its fifth consecutive year of more than 100% revenue growth. BusinessObjects has been licensed in more than 50 countries to 3,200 customer sites and 185,000 users worldwide. Business Objects partners with more than than 350 leading third-party vendors including Arbor Software, Carleton, Hewlett-Packard, Informatica, Informix, 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, PeopleSoft, Prism, Pyramid, Red Brick, SAP, Silicon Graphics, Sun, Sybase, Tandem, and Texas Instruments. Strategic resellers include Bull, Digital, Fujitsu, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Price Waterhouse, Sequent, SHL SHL Shift Logical Left SHL Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (German: Swiss College of Agriculture) SHL Southern Hockey League SHL Silver Haired Legislature SHL Single Hidden Layer (neural networks) , Siemens Nixdorf, Toshiba, and Unisys. More information on Business Objects can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.businessobjects.com. -0- Note to Editors: BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects S.A. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. CONTACT: Business Objects Miriam Standish, 408/953-6105 mstandis@busobj.com or Blanc & Otus Melissa Sheridan, 415/512-0500 msheridan@bando.com |
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