Opodo Selects Business Objects as Its Enterprise Business Intelligence Standard.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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)--June 2, 2003 Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ) Leading Online Travel Service Chooses Business Objects to Optimize Operations and Strengthen Customer and Partner Relationships Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Opodo, an online travel service owned by nine of Europe's leading airlines, has selected Business Objects as the enterprise business intelligence standard across its European operations. Opodo is using a solution from Business Objects to gain an integrated view of information on all areas of its business, in order to optimize operational performance and make improvements to benefit its online travel community. The contract includes BusinessObjects(TM), the integrated query, reporting, and analysis solution for the enterprise, and WebIntelligence(R), the web-based BI solution from Business Objects, to access and analyze information that will drive sales productivity, customer service, and profitability and marketing initiatives. This includes analysis of the vast amounts of customer, purchasing, and partner data on Opodo's website, which spans over 400 airlines, 30,000 hotel properties, and a fleet of over 750,000 rental cars. Opodo is also using Business Objects BI solutions to monitor key business performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. via a dashboard that is available on the company intranet. This is helping the company to track, understand, and manage how the organization is performing against both day-to-day and strategic corporate goals. Furthermore, Opodo has licensed BusinessObjects Broadcast Agent(TM), an intelligent enterprise information delivery server, to automate the regular delivery of personalized reports via the web and email to both users internally and to partner airlines and hotels. "Business intelligence is a strategic initiative at Opodo, helping to drive the growth of the company," said Stuart Walters, chief information officer of Opodo. "Information is the lifeblood of our organization, and Business Objects BI solutions enable us to analyze and act upon that information in order to optimize operational efficiency and drive customer satisfaction. Online travel is set for major growth over the next few years and Business Objects will play a key role in helping Opodo to maximize that market opportunity." "In the competitive online travel industry, having the ability to access and analyze important customer, sales, and operation information is invaluable," said Dave Kellogg, senior group vice president of worldwide marketing at Business Objects. "Using Business Objects, Opodo is now able to track, understand, and manage their enterprise performance and increase the level of service offered to customer and partners." About Opodo Opodo launched its first site (www.opodo.de) in Germany in November 2001, its UK site (www.opodo.co.uk) in January and its French site (www.opodo.fr) in April 2002. Opodo is owned by nine of Europe's leading airlines -- Aer Lingus Aer Lingus is Ireland's national airline. Based in Dublin, it operates 41 Airbus aircraft serving Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East. The airline is 28% owned by the Irish government; it was floated on the Dublin and London Stock Exchanges on 2 October 2006, , Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde , Alitalia, Austrian Airlines Austrian Airlines AG is the flag carrier airline of Austria, headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled sevices to over 130 destinations. Its main base is Vienna International Airport, with a hub at Innsbruck Airport.[1] In 2006 Austrian had 10 million passengers. , British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. , Finnair, Iberia, KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) and Lufthansa and by leading Global Distribution System (GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards ) and travel industry technology provider, Amadeus. Opodo addresses the real needs of today's traveller by offering an unbiased and competitively priced online travel service for world travel, with access to flights from over 400 airlines, 30,000 hotel properties and a worldwide fleet of over 750,000 hire cars, as well as travel insurance. Further information about Opodo is available at www.opodo.com. About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading provider of enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business Objects enables organisations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance. The company's solutions leverage the information that is stored in an array of corporate databases, enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ), and customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) systems. Popular uses of BI include management dashboards and scorecards, enterprise performance management applications, customer intelligence applications, enterprise reporting, financial reporting, and both customer and partner extranets. These solutions enable companies to gain visibility into their business, acquire and retain profitable customers, reduce costs, optimise the supply chain, increase productivity and improve financial performance. Business Objects provides the industry's most integrated business intelligence suite, called BusinessObjects Enterprise 6. This suite includes the industry's best web query, reporting, and analysis; the most advanced and complete suite of analytic applications; and the best connectivity to packaged applications. Business Objects has more than 17,500 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (Euroclear code 12074). It is included in the SBF SBF Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (Franciscan School of Biblical Investigations; Jerusalem, Israel) SBF Small Block Ford (automotive engine) SBF Single Black Female SBF Société des Bourses Francaises 120 and IT CAC See Consumer Advisory Council. 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 01628 764 600 and www.uk.businessobjects.com. BusinessObjects is a trademark and WebIntelligence is a registered trademark of Business Objects S.A. in the United States and/or other countries. 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