Business Objects Rated Number One by Readers of Intelligent Enterprise.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2003

BusinessObjects Developer Suite Voted as Top Product in the BI

Application Development Platforms and Tools Category

For the third year in a row, readers of Intelligent Enterprise have recognized Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, as a winner of an Intelligent Enterprise 2003 Readers' Choice Award. This award honors companies whose products best enable organizations to deploy strategic applications that collect, analyze, and deliver business information to improve performance and maximize customer relationships. Subscribers to Intelligent Enterprise voted BusinessObjects(TM) Developer Suite, part of the integrated BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 product suite, as the top product in the BI Application and Development Tools category.

"Year after year, Intelligent Enterprise readers turn to Business Objects for their business intelligence needs," said David Stodder, editor-in-chief of Intelligent Enterprise. "Their selection of BusinessObjects Developer Suite as one of the best IT products on the market today further proves that Business Objects is a key component in any organization's strategy to enable an intelligent enterprise."

"We are pleased to have won an Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Award for the third year in a row," said Bernard Liautaud, CEO of Business Objects. "We are always gratified when the users of our products honor us. As the world's leading provider of business intelligence, we understand that significant competitive advantage comes from analyzing and acting upon data to gain more visibility into the business and take action to improve enterprise performance. We are happy to see the readers of Intelligent Enterprise embracing BusinessObjects Developer Suite, which is an important component of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, our industry-leading integrated business intelligence (BI) suite."

Voting was open exclusively to the more than 100,000 Intelligent Enterprise subscribers. Results will be published in the Nov. 18, 2003 issue of Intelligent Enterprise Magazine. Readers made their choices among several categories of products in the four Intelligent Enterprise technology focus areas: intelligence, integration, infrastructure, and collaborative commerce. Readers also voiced their opinions about their most important reasons to buy strategic software right now. Visit www.intelligententerprise.com for the full story.

About Intelligent Enterprise

Published 18 times annually, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of 100,000 business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, enhance business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships. It provides both the context and the technical detail needed to take strategic business applications from concept to deployment, covering such interlocking technology categories as: application development, business intelligence and data warehousing, data management, enterprise application integration, enterprise/e-business applications, CRM and customer analytics, knowledge management, scalable server hardware, enterprise storage, and systems and applications management. For more information, contact Tara Gibb at 650-513-4566 or [e-mail]. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at www.intelligententerprise.com.

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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 18,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB). 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.

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