BusinessObjects Wins First Place for Decision Support and OLAP in the 1996 Oracle Technical Journal Best Product Awards; BusinessObjects Awarded Gold Star Over Competition; Top Choice Among Oracle Technical Journal Readership.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)--Oct. 2, 1996--Business Objects (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BOBJY), the world's leading provider of 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. ) tools, today announced that the Oracle Technical Journal's (OTJ OTJ On the Job (training) OTJ Office of Tribal Justice OTJ Osteotendinous Junction (muscle-tendon junction) OTJ Outstanding Transaction Journal OTJ on the Job Training ) Annual Best Products Awards presented BusinessObjects with a gold star in the Decision Support and OLAP category. BusinessObjects ranked first over competitive products including PowerPlay from Cognos, Forest & Trees from Platinum, and several others. The product awards were voted on by readers of OTJ this Spring, and awarded in the Fall issue. BusinessObjects 4.0 is the world's leading integrated query, reporting, and OLAP tool that helps mainstream users make better business decisions on information stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. "We are honored that BusinessObjects has been awarded OTJ's gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize ," said Dave Kellogg, vice president of corporate marketing at Business Objects. "BusinessObjects is the number one decision support tool as voted by the users of the market-leading relational database management system relational database management system - relational database ." OTJ is a quarterly technical publication for users of Oracle products. It is an independent publication, not affiliated with Oracle Corporation. The award winners are listed in the Fall 1996 issue of OTJ. Out of 339 products and eight categories, only 33 products made it to the medal status. About Business Objects Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY) is the world's leading supplier of integrated query, reporting, and OLAP tools. The company's flagship product, BusinessObjects, provides mainstream business users with access to information stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent decision support tools in 1990 by introducing the first product to use a "semantic layer." This patented technology maps complex database schemas to a business representation understandable by non-technical end users. Business Objects led the overall decision support tools market in 1995 with software license revenues of $48.7M, and outsold out·sold v. Past tense and past participle of outsell. its nearest query and reporting tools competitor two-to-one according to IDC. BusinessObjects is in use at over 3,200 organizations in over 60 countries, and has sold more than 350,000 licenses around the world. More information on Business Objects can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.businessobjects.com. -0- Note to Editors: BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects SA. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. CONTACT: BUSINESS OBJECTS Miriam Standish, 408/953-6105 mstandis@busobj.com or BLANC & OTUS Danielle Dawson, 415/512-0500 ddawson@bando.com or investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Lisa Herbst, 408/953-6024 |
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