Business Objects and Longview Solutions Announce Product Integration for Enterprise Performance Management.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif. and TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2004

Combination of Industry-Leading Financial Applications and

Business Intelligence Solutions Helps Customers Improve Performance

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ)(Euronext Paris ISIN code FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, and Longview Solutions, a leader in financial planning, budgeting, and consolidation, today announced that the two companies have integrated Business Objects performance management products with Khalix(R) by Longview Solutions.

Khalix is a leading performance management application suite that drives quick and accurate delivery of all finance functions, including planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, consolidation, and analysis. BusinessObjects(TM) Performance Manager and BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager provide a view of the business via a dashboard containing alerts, scorecards, analytics, and reports. This enables users to monitor key business metrics, analyze performance issues, and set goals to get their operations back on track.

By providing integration between their respective product suites, Business Objects and Longview Solutions are making it easy for joint customers to implement a complete enterprise performance management solution that leverages their existing technology investment. This approach to EPM helps organizations to drive performance management initiatives with maximum flexibility, in order to achieve a rapid return on their investments.

"The integration with Longview Solutions allows companies to improve performance by leveraging the industry leading financial planning, budgeting, and consolidation capabilities of Khalix, with our enterprise business intelligence suite of products," said Dave Kellogg, senior group vice president of worldwide marketing at Business Objects. "This integration is the next step in our partnership announced last spring, and reinforces our goal of offering an open enterprise performance management solution. Business Objects enables companies to choose the best-of-breed financial applications that best suit their business and technical needs, while maintaining its focus on delivering the core BI competencies of reporting, query and analysis, and performance management."

"This is an important strategic step in our quest to ignite the power of finance to improve the performance of the entire enterprise," said Terence Wallis, vice president of strategic alliances at Longview Solutions. "The relationship with Business Objects gives our joint customers an integrated solution to manage business operations and finance. We look forward to continued success in serving our customers."

Longview is a charter member of the Business Objects Open Financial Applications Initiative launched in April 2003. In addition, Longview Solutions has an OEM partnership with Business Objects whereby Longview Solutions can license and sell Business Objects software.

About Longview Solutions

Longview Solutions makes software that leading companies use to drive performance with speed, visibility and financial integrity. Khalix(R) by Longview Solutions, is an integrated application that supports the diverse needs of the CFO, including Management Reporting, Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Modeling, Consolidation, and Analysis. LRAL(TM) by Longview Solutions, is a software application that leading companies use to teach, evolve, control and manage organizational knowledge. With a single repository of company knowledge LRAL users can quickly and accurately collaborate, share policies and procedures, learn, develop content, be assessed and certified.

Since 1994, Longview Solutions has established presence in Toronto, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Jose, Atlanta, London and Madrid. Longview Solutions' customers include a growing list of global companies who are leaders in their respective industries. For further information please see: www.longview.com.

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 (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) 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 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408-953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com.

BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects S.A. in the United States and/or other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they aassociated.