Business Objects Strengthens Customer Focus, Appoints Craig Lewis as Group Vice President, Worldwide Strategic Accounts.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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)--Feb. 19, 2002 New Role Focused on Enhancing Strategic Value of Business Intelligence Investment for Global Customers Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that it has named Craig Lewis Craig Lewis (born December 30, 1976) is an Australian baseballer. In 2004, he was part of the Australian Olympic baseball team, who achieved a Silver Medal in the baseball tournament at the Athens Olympics. group vice president, worldwide strategic accounts. In this newly created position, Lewis will focus on strengthening business partnerships with the company's largest global customers, and will play an integral role in helping customers gain maximum value from their investment in Business Objects software. Lewis reports to John Olsen For the Australian artist John Olsen, see John Olsen (artist). John Wayne Olsen, AO was Premier of South Australia between November 28, 1996 and October 22, 2001. John Olsen was a member of the Liberal Party and Member of Parliament for more than 20 years. , president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Business Objects. Business intelligence is now one of the most strategic and important investments for a successful business today. Companies need a BI vendor that provides leading technology as well as global capabilities in account management and service. Lewis' appointment strengthens the company's commitment to understanding the business needs of its customers, and helping them turn their BI deployments into powerful competitive weapons. Lewis will focus on building, managing, and leading a worldwide strategic accounts team. The mission of this group will be to globalize glob·al·ize tr.v. glob·al·ized, glob·al·iz·ing, glob·al·iz·es To make global or worldwide in scope or application. glob the relationships between Business Objects and key customers and to partner with them to maximize the return on investment. Lewis will work closely with Scott Bajtos, group vice president, customer advocacy, in the executive partner program at Business Objects. This new strategic program links top Business Objects executives with key customers, helping to build a customer-centric corporate culture. "The world's largest companies are increasingly turning to Business Objects as a strategic solution to meet their critical business needs such as increased customer retention, improved operational efficiency, increased visibility, and better financial forecasting, said John Olsen, president and COO of Business Objects. "To help these elite companies meet their business goals, we need to provide a new kind of account management and service -- one that is global in nature, and is truly obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with customer satisfaction. Craig has tremendous experience and a proven track record for building great account management teams that can partner with the customer to meet their strategic objectives. I am very pleased to have Craig Lewis join the Business Objects team." "I'm excited to join the market leader in business intelligence and its impressive management team," said Craig Lewis, group vice president, worldwide strategic accounts. "As a company, we will drive our growth through customer obsession. By strengthening our commitment to strategic accounts, we ensure a successful, win-win outcome for everyone." Lewis has more than 15 years of sales experience and has continuously exceeded expectations for building and leading sales teams focused on customer success and business value. Prior to joining Business Objects, Lewis worked for Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. as vice president, enterprise accounts and alliances group, the worldwide Cadence strategic accounts sales and support team. This group exceeded revenue and growth expectations within Cadence and significantly raised the level of customer relationships. In addition, Lewis has held executive officer and senior sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a positions within the semiconductor industry. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business intelligence lets organizations access, analyze, and share information internally with employees and externally with customers, suppliers, and partners. It helps organizations improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings. The company's products include BusinessObjects(TM) 2000, the industry's leading integrated business intelligence toolset and platform; and BusinessObjects(TM) Analytics, an integrated suite of enterprise analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. . Business Objects pioneered the modern BI industry in 1990 by inventing a patented "semantic layer Semantic Layer The semantic layer is a business representation of corporate data that helps end users access data autonomously using common business terms. Developed and patented by Business Objects, it maps complex data into familiar business terms such as product, " that insulates users from the complexity of databases. In 1995, the company was first to focus on enterprise-scale BI deployments and today supports customers with more than 20,000 users. The company moved aggressively to the internet in 1997 by pioneering the market for BI extranets, a market that it continues to lead today. In 2000, the company delivered the industry's first interactive mobile BI solution. Today, Business Objects continues to innovate, creating and delivering a unique vision for enterprise analytic applications. Business Objects has more than 15,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and 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. (Sicovam code 12074). It is included in the SBF SBF Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (Franciscan School of Biblical Investigations; Jerusalem, Israel) SBF Small Block Ford (automotive engine) SBF Single Black Female SBF Société des Bourses Francaises 120 and IT CAC See Consumer Advisory Council. 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408/953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. A full-text copy may be downloaded from the web; access http://www.businesswire.com/cnn and search on "Business Objects." Business Objects product inquiries should contact 800/527-0580. |
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