Data Advantage Group Extends MetaCenter Functionality by Integrating Business Objects Developer Suite Products.

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2001

Data Advantage Group Integrates MetaCenter(TM) with Business Objects

and Joins Business Objects North American Channel Program

Data Advantage Group, a leader in Analytic Data Management (ADM) will integrate Business Objects' (Nasdaq:BOBJ) business intelligence technologies with its flagship product, MetaCenter to offer an enhanced data warehouse and business intelligence solution to joint customers. Data Advantage Group, Inc., today announced it has also joined the Business Objects North American Channel Partner Program as an application provider. Earlier this year Data Advantage Group announced its full integration with the Informatica(R) Data Integration Platform. The company also joined the Informatica Partner Program.

Data Advantage Group will integrate the BusinessObjects(TM) Developer Suite, a complete platform for building e-business intelligence applications, with MetaCenter, a metadata-based ADM platform. The integration will enable users to access, analyze and share business and technical information across multiple applications.

MetaCenter consists of Analytic Data Management(ADM) software and a metadata portal providing business and technical users insight into their enterprise with cross-platform, cross-application visibility and analytics. The complete solution enables companies to capture, manage and analyze metadata for streamlining the design, development and deployment of business intelligence solutions. Businesses can extend their analytic capabilities by creating custom metadata repositories and/or utilizing seamless integration with ETL, BI and Case Tool applications, through capturing required information to develop, maintain and analyze decision support systems.

MetaCenter key features include:

-- Bi-directional integration and unlimited extensibility with ETL, BI &
Modeling applications

-- Data duplication avoided, eliminating synchronization issues

-- Custom define metadata repositories with unlimited metadata types

-- Web-enabled for convenient and simple metadata access

-- Impact analysis identifies object relationships for change management

-- Data Lineage identifies the true source of data

-- Analyze metadata with over 20 customizable reports or create your own

-- Compare repositories, folders and objects for migration analysis

-- Monitor load progress with the Load Console feature

-- Receive real time pager and email alerts when events meet customized
thresholds

"Our partnership with Business Objects represents a giant step forward towards our goal to deliver next-generation analytics management. By seamlessly integrating with industry-leaders such as Business Objects, we are able to provide end-users with unprecedented visibility across their enterprise of applications," said Geoffrey V. Arone, vice president of Business Development for Data Advantage Group.

"We are pleased to partner with leading ADM providers like Data Advantage Group," said Bill Robinson, vice president of North American sales for Business Objects. "Our partnership will enable our joint customers to take advantage of a broad range of business intelligence capabilities to improve their overall decision making process." Through the alliance, Data Advantage Group will also become a member of the Business Objects North America Channel Partner Program and will train its business intelligence consultants and software developers on Business Objects software.

About Data Advantage Group, Inc.

Data Advantage Group provides ADM products and services enabling companies to design, develop and maintain enterprise information systems. Clients include: Arrow Electronics, Bell Atlantic, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Kana Communications and Liberty Mutual. For more information call 415/469-4300, or visit their web site at www.dataag.com.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions. The company coined the term e-business intelligence in 1998 to describe the intersection of business intelligence and the Internet. Using e-business intelligence, organizations can access, analyze, and share information in intranet, extranet, and e-business environments. In intranets, the company's products provide employees with information to make better business decisions, and are used in environments ranging from workgroups of 20 users to enterprise deployments exceeding 20,000. In the extranet environment, the company is pioneering the use of e-BI in applications that allow organizations to build stronger relationships by linking customers, partners, and suppliers via the Internet. In addition, the company's products can improve the performance of an e-business by providing reporting and analysis against the ever-expanding amount of transaction and profile data that is collected each day throughout the World Wide Web.

Founded in 1990, Business Objects pioneered the modern business intelligence industry by inventing and patenting a "semantic layer" that insulates users from the technical complexity of database systems. Today, the company has over 12,400 customers in more than 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris: code Euroclear France 12074, and included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408/953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com.

Note to Editors: BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects SA. Data Advantage Group and MetaCenter are trademarks of Data Advantage Group, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.