Informix Business Solutions and Business Objects Expand Partnership to Deliver Complete Vertical Business Intelligence Solutions.

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WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2000

Informix Business Solutions Furthers Strategy of Widespread

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Informix Business Solutions, an independent operating company of Informix(R) Corporation (NASDAQ: IFMX), today announced an expansion to its strategic partnership with Business Objects, the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, that will enable Informix telecommunications customers to access, analyze, and share vital information for wireless businesses.

Informix is integrating BUSINESSOBJECTS(TM)INFOVIEW, BUSINESSOBJECTS SET ANALYZER(TM), and BUSINESSQUERY(R) for Excel products with Informix Business Solutions' Telco Success for Wireless and Axielle(TM) e-Intelligence Portal. This integration extends the original alliance between Informix and Business Objects established in 1998 that included combining Informix Business Solutions' DataStage(R) with Business Objects technology. Informix also plans to join Business Objects Open Portal Initiative, which provides organizations with maximum flexibility for deploying portal solutions throughout their enterprises.

The new integration will offer customers needed tools to recognize a `return on information' by creating and profiting from their information assets. The powerful combination provides e-business users with meaningful business information, right at their desktop, when they need it. The expansion of this alliance represents an additional step in Informix Business Solutions' aggressive program of integration with best-of-breed applications for e-business intelligence and solutions.

"This expanded partnership with Business Objects highlights our strategic vision to offer customers open solutions that easily integrate with complementary products in distinct vertical markets including telecommunications, retail, banking and media," said Mikael Wipperfeld, vice president of marketing, Informix Business Solutions. "The integration of Business Objects leading products with our platform-independent solutions enables customers to maximize the value of their information assets."

The two companies will provide users with the ability to gain business intelligence value from data stored in warehouses built using the Informix Business Solutions' Telco Success for Wireless data models, and DataStage, a single data integration solution for moving data within and between virtually any environment. Among the Business Objects products utilized through this partnership are: INFOVIEW, a business intelligence portal that collects and consolidates business intelligence information and presents it in a secure and personalized view; SET ANALYZER, selection tools for customer segmentation; and BUSINESSQUERY, a tool that provides users with an easy way of integrating corporate data into personal Excel spreadsheets.

"Our partnership with Informix Business Solutions is an important asset as we continue to provide the most comprehensive and innovative business intelligence solutions to our customers that can run on various environments including internet, extranet, portal, and wireless," said Mark Tice, group vice president of global alliances, Business Objects. "The integration of leading technologies offered by both companies enable our customers to make better business decisions by accessing, analyzing, and sharing their mission-critical business intelligence."

Customers of both companies can also utilize Informix Business Solutions' Axielle e-Intelligence Portal, which connects decision-makers across an organization's enterprise to information and applications, regardless of source or location, and enables users to share this information through both Web and wireless interfaces. Its unique XML-based Business Information Directory (BID) allows users to categorize and search their information assets, delivering the necessary results in a device-independent fashion anywhere and anytime.

The comprehensive business intelligence architecture derived from this partnership offers users the analytic framework to answer critical questions about their customers, including detailed information on customer preferences, customer churn rates, profitability and usage. Specific functionality includes drill-down into specific data sets, execution of ad hoc queries and sophisticated management reporting.

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 11,500 customers in more than 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and PARIS BOURSE: code SICOVAM 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.

About Informix

Informix' Solutions Business, an independent operating business of Informix Corporation (NASDAQ: IFMX), offers an integrated suite of database and platform-independent software solutions and infrastructure for integrating content, e-commerce, and analytics that enable customers to succeed in the new economy.

(c)2000 Informix Corporation. All rights reserved. The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its affiliates, one or more of which may be registered in the U.S. or other jurisdictions: Informix(R), Axielle(TM), and DataStage(R).

BUSINESSOBJECTS is a trademark of Business Objects SA. SETANALYZER is a trademark of Business Objects SA. BUSINESSQUERY for Excel is a registered trademark of Business Objects SA. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.