Business Objects and IBM Sign Reseller Agreement for Delivering Leading Business Intelligence Solutions in North America.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. 3, 1999-- New Agreement Extends Successful European Marketing Partnership Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, today announced that IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) will resell re·sell tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells 1. To sell again. 2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. Business Objects products 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 Canada. With this agreement, IBM sales representatives can now better serve the needs of their customers by reselling Business Objects software for query, reporting, and analysis as part of IBM's end-to-end business intelligence solutions. This agreement expands the two companies' marketing partnership where IBM has been reselling Business Objects software throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and countries comprising the former Soviet Union. In these regions, since mid-1997, IBM has sold tens of thousands of licenses of the BusinessObjects(tm) full-client and WebIntelligence(tm) thin-client decision support tools. To help companies access, analyze, and share vital customer information, IBM is bundling BusinessObjects with DecisionEdge for Relationship Marketing. DecisionEdge for Relationship Marketing, which includes hardware, software, consulting, and services, is IBM's solution for corporations seeking to better manage their customer relationships. "All companies have customer data. What separates the successful companies from the rest is what they do with it," said Charles Chang, general manager of Business Objects Americas. "Truly customer-focused companies enable their marketing employees to gain business value from their data in whatever means is most relevant and most powerful. We're very excited to be working with IBM and its DecisionEdge solutions to open up enterprise stores of customer data that deliver highly effective marketing business intelligence." "IBM is one of our largest channels to market in Europe," added Chang. "We hope this agreement will help extend that success to the other side of the Atlantic." "Decision Edge is a framework that allows companies to easily access customer data to better understand customers' needs," said Ben Barnes This article is about an American politician. For the English actor of the same name, see Ben Barnes (actor). Ben Barnes (born April 17, 1938) is an American politician and lobbyist, who was once the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and the , general manager, IBM Global Business Intelligence Solutions. "Business Objects plays an important role in our leading business intelligence solutions." Business Objects products will be marketed by IBM Authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: Software Representatives under IBM's Software Vendor Marketing Partnership and under the terms of the Business Objects logo and license agreement. IBM representatives are able to resell Business Objects software bundled with offerings such as DecisionEdge. To date, IBM has announced DecisionEdge solutions for the finance, utilities, telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , and insurance industries. For more information about IBM's DecisionEdge solutions, visit www.ibm.com/bi. 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 A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. , 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 (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S administration for both client/server and Internet environments. Business Objects has sold more than 1,080,000 licenses to over 7,600 organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide. Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408/953-6000 or on the World Wide 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. Note to Editors: BusinessObjects is a trademark 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. |
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