Business Objects and CSC Sign Reseller Agreement; CSC Also Licenses BusinessObjects for Internal Use.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)--Aug. 22, 1997--Business Objects (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, and Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSC (Card Security Code) A three- or four-digit number printed on the back of credit cards for security purposes. Called "Card Verification Value" (CVV) by Visa, "Card Validation Code" (CVC) by MasterCard and "Card Identification (CID) by American Express and Discover, ) today announced that they have signed an agreement whereby CSC becomes an authorized reseller of Business Objects products throughout the Americas. Business Objects products enable non-technical users to access and analyze data stored in corporate data warehouses, data marts, and packaged applications. Business Objects offers both a full-client suite of DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S tools including BusinessObjects, BusinessMiner, and BusinessQuery, as well as its new thin-client solution, WebIntelligence. Business Objects products will be resold by CSC and will be offered as an option in CSC data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse system integration projects. One of the world's largest professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firms, CSC provides management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects , systems integration, and outsourcing for a wide range of commercial corporations and government agencies. "We are extremely pleased to have a world-class organization such as CSC distribute our products," said Dave Kellogg, vice president of corporate marketing at Business Objects. "With CSC's global presence and significant expertise in designing and implementing winning data warehouse solutions, we are certain to provide the best possible data warehousing and decision support solution for our mutual customers." "We are glad to be able to give our customers access to Business Objects DSS products," said Carol Lipson, Director, Alliance Program at CSC. "By reselling Business Objects, we are providing our customers both an integrated suite of full-client decision support tools as well as thin-client DSS." CSC Uses BusinessObjects with Oracle Financials CSC has also chosen BusinessObjects as the query, reporting, and analysis tool to work with Oracle Financials applications. Approximately 250 members of the CSC management team will have BusinessObjects on their laptops to enable them to manage their profit and loss (P&L) ledgers. "We chose BusinessObjects because it is a well integrated decision support tool. We like the fact that we could get query, reporting, and analysis all from one very intuitive product," said Manu Tandon, senior consultant at CSC. "BusinessObjects will enable us to meet our data access, distribution, and analysis requirements." About CSC CSC had $5.8 billion in revenue for the 12 months ended June 27, 1997. Headquartered in El Segundo, California
El Segundo is a city in Los Angeles County, California on the Santa Monica Bay, incorporated on January 18, 1917. The population was 16,033 at the 2000 census. , CSC has nearly 44,000 employees in more than 600 offices worldwide providing clients with a wide range of professional services including: management consulting, information systems consulting and integration, and operations support. The Banking and Consumer Finance Division of CSC Financial ServicesGroup is located in Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). The City of Dallas (pronounced [ˈdæl.əs] or [ˈdæl. . About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools. Business Objects products provide non-technical business users with access to information stored in data warehouses, data marts, and packaged business applications. Business Objects provides a complete suite of decision support tools including query, reporting, online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. , data mining, and DSS administration for both client/server and internet environments. Business Objects has sold more than 575,000 licenses to over 5,000 organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide. Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408/953-6000 or on the worldwide web at http://www.businessobjects.com . The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors BOBJY. -0- Note to Editors: BusinessObjects, BusinessQuery, BusinessMiner, and WebIntelligence are trademarks of Business Objects SA. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. A full-text copy of this announcement may be obtained by calling the Company's fax retrieval line at 800/414-2114 and selecting option "two." The announcement may also 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. CONTACT: BUSINESS OBJECTS Danielle Dawson, 408/953-6108 or CSC Bernie Thiel, 216/449-3600 |
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