Business Objects Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of 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 Gartner Inc.'s latest 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 week1. 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. As the first business intelligence provider to break the billion-dollar revenue milestone, Business Objects continues to strengthen its market position by expanding its product line to complement its core BI platform. In addition to traditional query, reporting, and analysis solutions; Business Objects offers budgeting, planning, and consolidations applications, as well as data integration and data quality products to provide the industry's most advance and complete BI platform. In 2006, the company saw a significant increase in adoption of BusinessObjects[TM] XI Release 2, which delivers 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 initiated a focus on the mid-size market, launched a new software-as-a-service solution, and expanded its professional service offerings - each of which strengthened the company's position in the market and provided further differentiation from other BI vendors. Customers around the world continually praise Business Objects for its innovative technology and clear vision for the future of business intelligence. Organic Valley, the country's largest organic farmer cooperative, is one example of a customer that is gaining significant business benefits from standardizing on BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions. "By leveraging the Business Objects BI platform, we have been able to quickly consolidate data from our ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. and financial systems to gain more accurate and timely visibility into our business," said George Neill, IT director at Organic Valley. "With Business Objects, Organic Valley has been able to turn raw data into useful information to make more strategic decisions that have helped us grow our business and compete more effectively with much larger food and dairy companies." "We have been inspired by customers to continue to innovate and expand the scope of our business intelligence solutions," said John Schwarz —John F. Schwarz is the name of:
For more information about Business Objects solutions, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/products. About the Gartner Magic Quadrant The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted January 26, 2007 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 January 26, 2007: Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07 by Kurt Schlegel, Bill Hostmann, Andreas Bitterer |
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