Business Objects and Teradata to Deliver End-to-End Business Intelligence for Retailers; Expanded Relationship Will Produce Integrated BI Solutions for Improved Data Analysis and Decision-Making.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. & PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. & ORLANDO, Fla. -- 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) and Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (company) NCR Corporation - Electronics company mainly active in the midrange server market. NCR was founded 1884 as National Cash Register Company. It joint the computer industry in th 1950s. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers ), today announced an expanded partnership to jointly develop and deliver an end-to-end business intelligence (BI) offering for Teradata's(R) Retail Decisions solution. Business Objects is the world's leading providers of BI solutions, and Teradata is the global leader in enterprise data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse . As part of the agreement, BusinessObjects(TM) XI provides a BI platform to build queries, reports and dashboards that fit a retail business user's analytic requirements for Teradata Retail Decisions. The combined solution enables retailers to answer business questions in various functional areas such as sales, inventory and vendor analysis, seasonal planning, merchandising, promotions, customer behavior, product assortment and pricing. "Today's database and storage technologies have allowed retailers to gather mountains of data on products, customers, vendors and operations, to the point where their capability to store data has exceeded their ability to use the data effectively," said Robb Eklund, vice president of segments industry solutions at Business Objects. "In the fast-paced and competitive world of retailing, it takes a tightly integrated world-class business intelligence and enterprise data warehousing solution to transform this data into actionable insight. This relationship combines Teradata's proven retail expertise and analytics and best-in-class enterprise data warehousing technologies with Business Objects' broad suite of enterprise business intelligence solutions. Together, we enable retailers to improve performance by better understanding which items, locations and vendors contribute the most to sales and profitability." "Retailers who choose Teradata solutions do so to gain a unique consolidated view of their business across any functional areas and to ensure this view is comprehensive, consistent and accurate," said Rob Berman, vice president, retail industry, Teradata. "With this expanded partnership, Teradata and Business Objects are offering retailers a more flexible and operations-friendly solution which promotes the ability to make better, faster decisions that directly affect top-line revenues, decrease costs and improve customer satisfaction." Teradata and Business Objects have been business partners since 1996. The two companies already share a customer base of more than 300 companies across multiple industries, including retail, communications and manufacturing, many of which are active participants in the Teradata Advisory Group (TAG). The TAG helps define and prioritize pri·or·i·tize v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem v.tr. To arrange or deal with in order of importance. v.intr. the overall integration roadmap between the companies' technologies and provides input on which Teradata features and functions are to be incorporated by the Business Objects product team in the future. This agreement continues to strengthen the existing global marketing, sales and engineering relationship between Business Objects and Teradata. Teradata will continue to resell Business Objects software and services, including the new Retail Decisions offer on Business Objects XI. This makes it easier for Teradata customers to leverage their existing Teradata platform with the industry-leading BI software from Business Objects. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision-making and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete platform for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. . Business Objects has built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and also 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. About Teradata Division Teradata (www.teradata.com), a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR), is the global technology leader in enterprise data warehousing, analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. and data warehousing services. Organizations around the world rely on the power of Teradata's award-winning solutions to get a single, integrated view of their business to enhance decision-making, customer relationships and profitability. About NCR Corporation NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with their customers. NCR's ATMs, retail systems, Teradata(R) data warehouses and IT services provide Relationship Technology(TM) solutions that maximize the value of customer interactions and help organizations create a stronger competitive position. Based in Dayton, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. , NCR (www.ncr.com) employs approximately 28,300 people worldwide. NCR and Teradata are trademarks or registered trademarks of NCR Corporation 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 other countries. 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