Business Objects Positioned in the Leader Quadrant in Business Intelligence Platform 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 Leaders quadrant in the most recent Gartner Business Intelligence Platform 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. , published this week.(1) According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner, "leaders" are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. Business Objects continues to strengthen its position with the recent launch of BusinessObjects(TM) XI Release 2. Significant enhancements and new capabilities in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 deliver improved simplicity for end users, trusted information across the enterprise, and the ability to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. on a single BI platform. In addition, Business Objects also unveiled BusinessObjects Intelligent Question(TM), a groundbreaking innovation that allows anyone to intuitively ask business questions and receive the correct answers, without the need to build a query or know the underlying systems or data. Customers around the world continually praise Business Objects for its innovative technology and clear vision for the future of business intelligence. AstraZeneca is one example of a customer that is excited about BusinessObjects XI Release 2 and Intelligent Question. "As a customer who has standardized on Business Objects globally, we are delighted that BusinessObjects XI Release 2 allows us to build on our existing investment by continuing to provide pioneering technology that meets our evolving business needs," said Ed Johnson, solutions architect at AstraZeneca. "This new version of the Business Objects platform will transform our ability to deliver information to more users, providing greater clarity, business context, and guided decision making. Specifically, BusinessObjects Intelligent Question is a groundbreaking innovation that will allow any employee, whatever their role or level of expertise, to easily ask questions and quickly get the answers they need to help them do their job more effectively. In addition, we are impressed that all of these capabilities are available on one integrated platform that can provide us with one point of access for all our BI content. The powerful capabilities in BusinessObjects XI Release 2 will give us a competitive edge, whether helping us to be first-to-market with new products, or to better manage overall business performance." "We have a keen understanding that to be successful in this industry you must have clear goals and be able to deliver impactful, cutting-edge solutions to customers," said John Schwarz —John F. Schwarz is the name of:
About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete platform for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. . Business Objects has built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and also 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. About the Gartner Magic Quadrant The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted January 9, 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.
Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, WebIntelligence, Crystal Reports, Crystal Xcelsius, Intelligent Question, and Desktop Intelligence are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A. or its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. 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)January 9, 2006: Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q06 by Kurt Schlegel, Bill Hostmann, Andreas Bitterer, Betsy Burton |
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