The National Offender Management Service Standardizes on BusinessObjects XI Release 2; Business Objects Delivers Accurate, Timely Data for More Efficient and Effective Management of Offenders and Improved Public Protection.

SAN JOSE, Calif. & PARIS -- Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ)(Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 -- BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that the UK's National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has standardized on BusinessObjects(TM) XI Release 2, the industry's most advanced and complete BI platform.

BusinessObjects XI Release 2 will provide NOMS with an integrated solution for enterprise information management, reporting, analysis, and performance management. These capabilities will enable NOMS to deliver C-NOMIS, an end-to-end offender management system that consolidates more than 200 disparate prison and probation service databases to provide a single, accurate profile of an offender. Eventually, more than 80,000 users within the criminal justice community, including courts, prison and probation services, police forces and other partner organizations, will be able to share up-to-the-minute information for more efficient and effective management of offenders.

The C-NOMIS Case Management system is based on a COTS package called TAG from Syscon Justice Systems Ltd under contract with EDS.

"A key factor in our decision to standardize on Business Objects was its ability to provide one platform for data integration, data integrity and business intelligence," said Roy Suffield, C-NOMIS Project Director. "With C-NOMIS, we are using Business Objects to provide immediate access to an integrated view of trustworthy information for each offender. This powerful offender intelligence system will help transform the way correctional services staff receive information, improving productivity and enabling them to make more informed decisions which in turn will help them better protect the public. The expected time and operational cost savings are significant, in the region of GBP 50 million per year. In addition, C-NOMIS will be integral to helping NOMS achieve targets to reduce re-offending by 10% by the end of the decade."

Previously, the same offender information would be captured in various locations, leading to inaccuracies and making reporting a slow process, with information up to 24 hours out-of-date. All this creates extra workload. The eventual aim is to facilitate the sharing of data so that it is only captured once, be that when a person is prosecuted, sentenced or punished. Business Objects will enable C-NOMIS to provide all the people working with an offender with one view of accurate, up-to-date information for that person.

BusinessObjects(TM) Data Integrator XI will be used to extract data out of multiple prison and probation services databases and move it into an Oracle data warehouse for a consolidated view of an offenders' records. In addition, as an integrated part of this process, Business Objects Data Quality solutions will perform data cleansing on records for more than 200,000 offenders including name, address, date of birth, national insurance number and medical files, to remove duplication and ensure they are accurate, consistent and complete. Once information has been migrated and cleansed users will be able to easily analyze this single source of reliable data and generate and distribute reports using Web Intelligence(TM) XI and Crystal Reports(R) XI from Business Objects.

This visibility will change the future of offender management, enabling improved monitoring and management of offenders and helping criminal justice staff do their jobs more efficiently in order to improve rehabilitation and cut re-offending rates. It will be critical to the success of recently introduced legislation which allows certain custodial sentences to be taken over a longer period of time and not on consecutive days. Having a single system that allows both the prison and probation services to quickly know where an offender is at any one time is imperative for security reasons.

"Criminal justice organizations throughout the world rely on BI software from Business Objects to increase operational efficiency and improve performance," said Maurizio Carli, senior vice president and general manager EMEA at Business Objects. "By standardizing on BusinessObjects XI Release 2, NOMS now has a unified infrastructure in place that meets all of its information management and business intelligence needs. As a result, NOMS now has a single source of trusted information which can easily be shared across organizational boundaries, giving users confidence they are making decisions based on the most complete and accurate information available."

About the National Offender Management Service

The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) was created in 2004 in response to The Carter Review -- a Number 10, Treasury and Home Office review of the UK's correctional services. The Carter Review stated there should be end-to-end management of all offenders, whether they are serving sentences in prison or the community, in order to cut re-offending rates and improve rehabilitation.

As a new single service, NOMS, is responsible for designing interventions and services for offenders that are designed to reduce reoffending and protecting the public. It brings together the work of correctional services including prisons and probation. It ensures that court sentences are effectively implemented across organizational boundaries and that the focus is on end to end management of the offender.

A range of organizations from all sectors work with NOMS to contribute to its aims by providing services which include offender management, custody, community punishments, and programmes and interventions. NOMS has a combined workforce of approximately 70,000 people with a budget in excess of GBP 4bn. At any given time, NOMS will be dealing with about 225,000 offenders, both in custody and in the community.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 35,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

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