Corporate Profile for Business Objects, dated May 3, 1996.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published date: May 3, 1996 Company name: Business Objects
Address: 20813 Stevens Creek Blvd., Ste. 100
Cupertino, CA 95014
Telephone No.: 408/973-9300 Chief Executive Officer: Bernard Liautaud Chief Financial Officer: Bob Verheecke Investor Relations Contact: Lisa Herbst Business number: 408/864-2070 Public Relations Contact: Tracy Eiler Business number: 408/864-2085 Trading symbol: BOBJY -- NASDAQ Industry: High-Tech Company description: Business Objects is a leading provider of enterprise decision support tools that deliver access to data stored in corporate databases, data warehouses and packaged applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent decision support tools in 1990 with the introduction of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , BUSINESSOBJECTS, the first decision support tool to use a "semantic layer" to map complex database schemas to a business representation understandable by mainstream business users. Business Objects generated over $60M in revenue in 1995, concluding its fifth consecutive year of more than 100% revenue growth. BUSINESSOBJECTS has been licensed in more than 50 countries to over 2,900 customer sites and 160,000 users worldwide. Business Objects partners with more than 350 leading third-party vendors including Arbor Software, Hewlett-Packard, 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) , Informix, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Prism, Red Brick, Sun and Sybase. Strategic resellers include Bull, Digital, Fujitsu, 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 , Price Waterhouse, Sequent, SHL SHL Shift Logical Left SHL Schweizerische Hochschule für Landwirtschaft (German: Swiss College of Agriculture) SHL Southern Hockey League SHL Silver Haired Legislature SHL Single Hidden Layer (neural networks) , Siemens Nixdorf, Toshiba and Unisys. More information on Business Objects can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.businessobjects.com. CONTACT: Business Objects |
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