BusinessObjects 5.0 Supported by Industry Leaders.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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1998--Industry leaders today announced their support for BusinessObjects(tm) 5.0, the first decision support system (DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S ) to provide analytical reporting by combining scalable 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. with integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ). (Editor's note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : see related news release dated November 3, 1998.) BusinessObjects 5.0 provides users with the following five key advantages over existing enterprise reporting and DSS offerings: powerful, interactive and easy reports; self-service information access; scalable report and broadcast server; seamless application integration; and minimal total cost of ownership. This new release of BusinessObjects has received key support from several of the company's strategic technology partners. Baan "Business Objects is a member of BaanCAPPS, an alliance program we put in place to give our customers certified, compatible third-party solutions," said John Rajeski, software alliance manager, Baan. "With this new release of its enterprise decision support system, Business Objects brings to the market an innovative solution for analytical reporting." 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) "With new features for improved on-report analysis and easier OLAP functionality, BusinessObjects 5.0 will offer our joint DB2 customers powerful, interactive, and easy reporting for their enterprise applications," said Donna Troy Donna Troy is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Universe. As Wonder Girl, she was one of the founding members of the Teen Titans. Over the years, her origin story has been changed several times, and she has battled evil under various different identities. , vice president, Global Solutions Developer Alliances, IBM. "We congratulate Business Objects on this new product release and look forward to continuing our business intelligence efforts with the company." Microsoft "By embedding Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) A subset of Visual Basic that provides a common language for customizing Microsoft applications. VBA supports COM, which allows a VBA script to invoke internal functions within Excel, Word and other COM-based programs or to make use of ) in its new release, Business Objects is taking a major step toward offering its customers seamless integration with both Microsoft and other VBA-enabled applications," said Neil Charney, lead product manager for VBA and Microsoft Office Developer, Microsoft Corp. "VBA will also help BusinessObjects 5.0 customers easily tailor their decision support applications to gain new business intelligence value from their existing data." Oracle "Business Objects is a member of Oracle's Warehouse Technology Initiative (WTI WTI West Texas Intermediate WTI Western Transportation Institute (Montana State University) WTI World Tribunal on Iraq WTI With The Idea (used in chess to point to the idea behind a specific move) ), a strategic partner program we put in place to ensure our customers have technically integrated data warehouse solutions," said Crystal Young, program director for WTI, Oracle Corp. "WTI provides Business Objects with confidential briefings on our database direction, which ensures future compatibility and investment protection with each new product release." 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 955,000 licenses to over 7,000 organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide. Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408-953-6000 or on the world wide web at http://www.businessobjects.com. The Company's stock is publicly traded 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 BOBJY. 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. |
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