Business Objects and SAP Announce Southwest Europe Software Bundle Agreement.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 1999--

SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) and BusinessObjects

package available to customers in France, Spain, Belgium, and

Luxembourg

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, and SAP announced today a software bundle program that will bundle BusinessObjects(tm) software for enterprise query, reporting, and analysis with SAP Business Information Warehouse(tm) (SAP BW(tm)).

The sales and marketing program will target both SAP and Business Objects customers in France, Spain, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The joint promotion between these two companies builds on Business Objects certification of its SAP BW interface in December 1998.

The bundle will offer customers an integrated business intelligence solution pairing Business Objects software with the SAP BW data warehouse solution. SAP Business Information Warehouse comes with all elements required for installation, use, ongoing changes, and maintenance for an enterprise data warehouse solution, including: -0-

--   SAP Business Information Warehouse Server delivered with an
     Administrator Workbench for fully managing the data warehouse
     environment
--   Automatic extraction capability for SAP R/3(R) including a
     generic data extractor for R/3
--   A preconfigured business content including business scenarios,
     repository, multidimensional InfoCubes and preconfigured query
     cubes
--   Business Explorer, a new front-end reporting tool using
     Microsoft(R) Excel 97 and the SAP BW OLAP engine
--   Business Applications Programming Interfaces (BAPIs)

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SAP BW also provides the ability to import and incorporate business content such as industry performance benchmarks and other forms of external market information.

BusinessObjects gives users of SAP BW additional decision support functionality including: -0-

--   Web-based access and distribution of SAP BW data
--   Access to multiple data sources including SAP BW
--   Offline report analysis
--   Report server capabilities including scheduling and distribution

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"We are pleased to work with Business Objects in Europe on this special business intelligence offering for our companies' joint customers," said Philippe Monchauzou, business intelligence business unit manager, SAP southwest Europe. "Together our two companies can give our customers a best-of-breed enterprise approach to their data warehousing and decision support needs."

Certified for use with SAP BW, the BusinessObjects interface will offer customers the benefits of OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) data queries including: -0-

--   Leverage of SAP BW security and metadata. By utilizing the SAP
     preferred and supported access method (ODBO interface), users of
     BusinessObjects are able to take advantage of SAP BW security
     features and can easily access BW metadata.
--   Interactive OLAP analysis. Users of BusinessObjects will be able
     to perform alternative "slice and dice" and drill-down analysis
     directly against SAP BW InfoCubes. This analysis will let users
     take full advantage of SAP BW OLAP environment and
     performance-enhancing features.

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"Throughout our companies' relationship, we have found that SAP and Business Objects work well together from both a technological standpoint, and also a sales and marketing standpoint," said Jill Henry, SAP alliances director, Business Objects. "So it makes good sense for both companies to pool their marketing resources to serve our European customers."

SAP and Business Objects are planning a customer road show in southwest Europe during the month of September in Brussels, Paris, Madrid, and Barcelona to demonstrate the joint offering.

About SAP

SAP, the world's largest enterprise software company, provides companies of all sizes with business solutions that deliver A Better Return on Information(SM). SAP products and services integrate an organization from financials and human resources to manufacturing and sales and distribution. This integration enables companies to optimize supply chains, strengthen customer relationships, and make more accurate management decisions. Founded in 1972, SAP today leverages a global network of people, processes, and products to assure customer success. SAP is listed on several exchanges including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." The SAP world wide web site can be found at http://www.sap.com.

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, data mining, and DSS administration for both client/server and internet environments. Business Objects has sold more than 1,180,000 licenses to over 8,100 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 BOBJ.

SAP, R/3, SAP Business Information Warehouse, SAP BW, and all SAP product and service names herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG. Microsoft is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. BusinessObjects 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.