Business Objects Positioned in the Challengers Quadrant of the 2006 Data Integration Tools Magic Quadrant.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 positioned in the Challengers quadrant of the Gartner 2006 Data Integration Tools Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. 1, published November 22, 2006. Business Objects delivers data integration, metadata management, and data quality solutions as part of a comprehensive product line supporting companies investing in enterprise information management (EIM EIM Enterprise Incentive Management EIM Enterprise Information Management EIM Enterprise Identity Mapping (IBM) EIM Enterprise Instant Messaging EIM Employee Internet Management EIM European Institute for the Media ). The Business Objects data integration solutions combine products and services to quickly and flexibly integrate and improve an organization's information to provide the most trusted foundation for their business decisions. In 2006, Business Objects has grown license revenues from these products to more than $31 million for the first three quarters, an increase of nearly 60% over the same period in 2005. "We continue to see significant momentum for our data integration solutions," said Pascal Clement, vice president of EIM at Business Objects. "Business Objects provides innovative products and services to deliver data integration, data quality, and metadata management capabilities that ensure business information is timely, accurate, and trustworthy. We consider our position in the magic quadrant as further recognition of our strong growth in this market and our ability to help companies effectively leverage their disparate data to improve performance." Earlier this year, Business Objects acquired Firstlogic to expand its data integration product portfolio and strengthen its ability to execute in this market. Business Objects now offers solutions for the following areas: * Data Integration - Business Objects provides enterprise-class data integration for batch-oriented extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. ). Business Objects also delivers data federation capabilities for real-time information access that combines data across data marts A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. , data warehouses, operational data stores, and transactional systems. * Data Quality - Business Objects delivers market-leading data quality solutions that allow companies to profile, cleanse cleanse tr.v. cleansed, cleans·ing, cleans·es To free from dirt, defilement, or guilt; purge or clean. [Middle English clensen, from Old English , and continuously monitor data. Business Objects data quality solutions allow organizations to ensure their business data is correct, consistent, and complete. * Metadata and Lifecycle Management - Business Objects metadata management tools consolidate, integrate, and audit metadata from disparate tools and data sources. Business Objects also provides a graphical tool to accelerate ETL design and implementation. For more information on Business Objects data integration solutions, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/eim. About the Gartner Magic Quadrant The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted November 22, 2006, by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability mer·chant·a·ble adj. Suitable for buying and selling; marketable. mer  chant·a·bil or
fitness for a particular purpose.
About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 39,000 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 See information 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. The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Intelligent Question, and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects 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. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. 1 November 22, 2006: Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2006 by Ted Friedman, Mark A. Beyer, and Andreas Bitterer |
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