Business Objects and Salesforce.com Expand Partnership to Deliver On Demand Business Intelligence via the AppExchange.Industry's Leading Business Intelligence Provider Brings Advanced Reporting and Dashboard Solutions to Salesforce.com Customers SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- 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), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, and salesforce.com (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced new Business Objects reporting and dashboard capabilities available on AppExchange for salesforce.com customers. New connectivity between Salesforce and Business Objects empowers customers to create sophisticated Crystal reports with data in their Salesforce applications and share reports over the web with authorized users. In addition, Business Objects is announcing a beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of business widgets on AppExchange which will extend users' ability to easily interact with Salesforce data and measure business performance directly from their desktop. "This announcement shows our continued momentum as the leader in on demand business intelligence," said Steve Lucas Lieutenant-General James Steve Lucas, C.M.M., C.D. (b. 24 February 1952 Toronto, Canada) was the commander of the Canadian Forces Air Command and Canadian Chief of the Air Staff until 2007. In 2001, he was made a Commander of the Order of Military Merit. , vice president of strategic markets at Business Objects. "Business Objects understands that today's customer expects to get information with just the click of a mouse. A key to reaching this goal is to continue developing easy-to-use on demand BI which customers can use in everyday applications. Deepening our relationship with salesforce.com brings customers closer to the information they need to better understand their customers and improves sales effectiveness. We're making it easy for organizations to access BI directly within Salesforce via the AppExchange." "We share a vision with Business Objects of making business information and applications available on demand to anyone, anywhere in the world," said Marc Benioff Marc Benioff (b. 1964) is Chairman & CEO of Salesforce.com, a leading CRM company he founded in March 1999. Born Marc Russell Benioff on September 25, 1964 in San Francisco, California USA. , chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at salesforce.com. "Business Objects has a strong tradition of simplifying business intelligence and providing powerful, easy-to-use BI solutions. Our continued partnership brings the power and ease of Crystal Reports, the industry standard in reporting, to the entire on-demand salesforce.com community." Deeper Integration of Crystal Reports and Salesforce Simplifies Reporting Today Business Objects introduces enhanced connectivity between crystalreports.com, the leading on-demand report sharing service, and salesforce.com on-demand applications. This integration enables customers to view and refresh reports directly inside Salesforce and allows users to easily and securely distribute reports online. To view, refresh, share, and schedule reports, authorized users simply click on the tab marked "crystalreports.com" within the Salesforce interface. This integration between Salesforce and crystalreports.com also enables customers to view Crystal reports created with Salesforce data alongside Crystal reports based on other data sources. By bringing all Crystal reports -- regardless of the data source -- into crystalreports.com, customers can conduct side-by-side comparisons. Providing customers with one place to view all their Crystal reports gives customers more holistic insight into their overall performance. Business Objects has also delivered a new connector between Crystal Reports XI and Salesforce that allows customers to design Crystal reports that draw on any Salesforce data. Using this connector, along with Crystal Reports XI, customers can create powerful, flexible reports within Salesforce. In addition, customers will have access to pre-built reports including pipeline forecasting, sales by geography and product segmentation. Crystal Reports has been the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. reporting standard for over a decade. Now all salesforce.com customers can leverage the world's leading reporting solution across their CRM deployments. New Business Widgets from Business Objects Enable Real Time Access to Salesforce Data Business Objects is also announcing new business widgets for salesforce.com customers. Widgets are small graphical windows that act as a desktop portal for customers to enter, retrieve, and measure data from Salesforce. Business widgets will help salesforce.com customers reduce the time needed to complete everyday tasks such as: add sales opportunities, track closed revenue, look up contacts, spot neglected leads, and monitor key sales metrics. Because widgets maintain connectivity to Salesforce, they can be instantly refreshed with Salesforce data. These widgets were created using Crystal Xcelsius, the leading data visualization See information visualization. software for creating interactive presentations and business dashboards from Business Objects. Availability Crystalreports.com for salesforce.com and the Crystal Reports connector are generally available now and can be purchased via the salesforce.com AppExchange. For more information, please visit: www.crystalreports.com/salesforce. A beta version of the business widgets from Business Objects is scheduled to be available to salesforce.com customers in late Q4 via the salesforce.com AppExchange. About salesforce.com Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. Apex, salesforce.com's on-demand programming language and platform, enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful new on-demand applications, and for the first time, to write and run their own code hosted with the security, reliability, upgradeability and ease-of-use of salesforce.com's industry-leading multi-tenant service. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings. As of July 31, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 24,800 customers and approximately 501,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ), America Online See AOL. 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Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. 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 "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 39,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects[TM] XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects. Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com. The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Intelligent Question, and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects in the United States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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