Business Objects and IBM to Extend Mainframe Connectivity for BusinessObjects Data Integrator.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. -- OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Agreement Extends Breadth and Depth of Product Integration Between Business Objects and 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) 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), today announced an OEM agreement whereby Business Objects will embed and resell IBM's mainframe connectivity software with BusinessObjects(TM) Data Integrator, an enterprise-class data integration platform. The integration of IBM's DB2(R) Information Integrator Classic Federation for z/OS with BusinessObjects Data Integrator Business Objects's Data Integrator is a data integration and ETL tool that was previously known as Acta. The Data Integrator product consists primarily of a Data Integrator Job Server and the Data Integrator Designer. enables organizations to easily access data and metadata on their mainframe systems and deliver quality information to users of reporting and analytic solutions. As much as 70% of the world's digital information currently resides in mainframe-based data sources. This legacy data is often difficult to combine with other information stored in relational databases. In the past, companies have either had to go through the time consuming and costly process of converting the legacy data, or chose to ignore that data altogether. Now, with the combined solution, organizations can easily access data from both relational and non-relational sources spread across many different types of platforms, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and databases. This helps to ensure data consistency Data consistency summarizes the validity, accuracy, usability and integrity of related data between applications and across the IT enterprise. This ensures that each user observes a consistent view of the data, including visible changes made by the user's own transactions and across massive amounts of data, and speeds up query times across these disparate systems. As the technology leader in mainframe connectivity, IBM provides customers of BusinessObjects Data Integrator with a high performance interface to mainframe data sources that empowers both background data extraction as well as a means of capturing changes to data in real time that automatically reformats the data for use by Data Integrator. This combination addresses the broadest set of data movement requirements: bulk data movement, selective extraction, change-only real-time data delivery, and more. "This agreement enables organizations to more easily leverage DB2 Information Integrator Classic Federation with the Business Objects data integration platform," said Nelson Mattos, Director, Information Integration, IBM Software Group. "The combined solution helps users make better business decisions by enabling them to gain a unified view of information, regardless of differences in data format, data location, or access interfaces." BusinessObjects Data Integrator enables organizations to access, integrate, transform, and deliver enterprise data for reporting, query and analysis, analytic applications, and performance management. A key component of the full Business Objects business intelligence suite, Data Integrator accelerates data warehouse development, while easing the maintenance and management of the overall BI deployment. Administrators are able to easily manage changes to the data, reports, or management dashboards, while ensuring that business users are working with timely and accurate information in their reports and analytics. "The concept of 'information accountability' has become a hot topic in IT departments and executive boardrooms for companies of all sizes, as they are realizing the importance of making decisions based on complete and quality data," said Sachin Chawla, vice president of data integration technology at Business Objects. "Our agreement with IBM is great news for our customers, as it gives them even greater ability to simplify and speed data movement and data sharing across the enterprise. Our tight integration with IBM will help customers to more efficiently use their entire range of information assets to improve decision making." In addition to this OEM agreement, Business Objects, a Premier Partner of IBM PartnerWorld for Developers, has several joint technology, sales, and marketing agreements with IBM. For example, Business Objects solutions are embedded with WebSphere Studio, Rational Software, and Tivoli Software products, as well as integrated with Lotus Workplace for Business Controls and Reporting, and On Demand Workplace for Retail solutions from IBM. For additional information on data integration solutions from Business Objects, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/dataintegration/. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. Business intelligence 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 See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (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 customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) systems. Popular uses of BI include enterprise reporting, management dashboards and scorecards, customer intelligence applications, 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. In December 2003, Business Objects completed the acquisition of Crystal Decisions, the leader in enterprise reporting. The combined product line includes software for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, analytic applications, and data integration. In addition, Business Objects offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects. Business Objects has more than 24,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is traded under the ticker symbols Nasdaq:BOBJ and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250-BOB). 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 http://www.businessobjects.com. 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