SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 23, 2003 -Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced widespread channel partner support for the launch of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, the new version of its industry-leading BI suite that enables organizations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance.
BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 delivers an end-to-end business intelligence solution that provides functionality unmatched in the industry. Partners will benefit from key features including the best web query, reporting, and analysis solution; the most advanced and complete suite of analytic applications; the best connectivity to packaged applications; and is the most integrated BI suite. Business Objects, with the support of its industry-leading partners, offers joint customers a business intelligence solution to meet the demands of today's leading organizations.
BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 has received key endorsements from a large number of the company's industry-leading channel partners, including:
Accruent
"Over the past five years, Business Objects has provided Accruent with a steady stream of new value-added components," said David Nelson, vice president of strategic accounts at Accruent. "Enterprise 6 is the most significant addition yet - bringing complete web-based BI analytics to our real estate and contract management solutions for Fortune 500 clients. Clients such as Lockheed Martin, RiteAid, Siemens, and others will be able to use these tools to understand trends and sub currents in managing their operations. With these new insights, they'll do so much more than write reports - they'll anticipate opportunities and plan accordingly to capture them and add bottom line value to their enterprise."
Base Consulting Group
"The improvements in Enterprise 6 enhance our ability to offer customers a truly integrated, enterprise-class BI solution to meet the diverse needs of today's global companies," said Chris Wheaton, EVP at BASE Consulting Group. "BASE has one focus: end-to-end business intelligence and data warehousing solutions. We have successfully partnered with Business Objects for many years because their leading-edge BI technologies play an integral part in the solutions we provide. We look forward to helping our clients take advantage of the enhanced functionality in BusinessObjects Enterprise 6."
Chateaux Software
"The wisdom of our decision to focus on Business Objects eight years ago has been reaffirmed with the launch of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6," said Kenneth Zimmerman, founder and president of Chateaux Software. "Our customers don't just rely on us to ensure their investments are well timed and well executed; as they mature in their use of Business Objects products, they expect an achievable ROI. Enterprise 6 provides a logical evolution of the Business Objects business intelligence suite, and the products and services we can offer remain appropriately timed on the adoption curve. This allows for easily understood integration of new releases, while propelling our clients ahead of their less well-equipped competitors."
DataLan Corporation
"BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 completes the migration of the suite from traditional desktop reporting to providing true business intelligence through the web," said Mark Marotta, business intelligence practice manager at DataLan. "Customers can now fully integrate business intelligence into enterprise-wide initiatives paving the way for true enterprise performance management. DataLan Corporation provides business solutions in the areas of access, business intelligence, and collaboration. Business Objects has been the keystone of our BI solutions, and the enhancements in Enterprise 6 gives us the opportunity to better leverage our skills in access and collaboration to build business solutions vastly improving the intelligence and speed of our client organizations."
Experio
"Experio Solutions recognizes the value and mutual synergy gained by partnering with a global leader in business intelligence solutions like Business Objects," said Scott Gamster, business intelligence and data warehousing practice leader at Experio Solutions. "BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 offers an industry-leading suite of integrated business intelligence products that enhance our ability to develop effective solutions for our clients to better track, understand, and manage enterprise performance. By working with Business Objects, Experio Solutions is able to combine best-of-breed technologies to form an end-to-end, business intelligence solution."
MONTAGE .DMC
"As a partner of Business Objects, we are thrilled to be in a position to be working with an enterprise-class business intelligence suite that will enable our customers to realize improvements in their decision making capabilities," commented David Hall, president of MONTAGE.DMC, the IT services division of AT&T Canada.
OBE Technologies
"Business Objects has always had great vision and a leading suite of business intelligence products," said Richard Adams, president of OBE Technologies. "With BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, they clearly have the most advanced business intelligence suite in the market. Our customers and partners are absolutely delighted with what they have seen and we expect a significant increase in business with this technology."
RZ Solutions
"For our customers, the ability to have a cost-effective, viable, end-to-end solution to provide web-based reporting, analytics, and information delivery is important," said Tom Hymanson, CEO of RZ Solutions. "BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 will not only increase the ability of our clients to effectively analyze information within their own companies, but also significantly reduce costs associated with deploying and sharing information with their employees, clients, partners, affiliates, and others. The release of Enterprise 6, which contains enriched end-user functionality, a solid architecture, and an administration layer which leads the industry, demonstrates to both its partners and the marketplace that Business Objects will continue to be the industry software leader in business intelligence, data integration, and analytic applications."
Saama Technologies
"Throughout our long partnership, Business Objects has consistently innovated and defined the business intelligence market. Enterprise 6 is no exception," said Larry Rosenblum, practice director at Saama Technologies, a premier business intelligence systems integrator. "By making enterprise performance management the cornerstone of business intelligence, Enterprise 6 enables Saama to offer our clients solutions that help them track performance, as well as effectively understand and manage the critical drivers behind achieving their goals."
Solution Builders
"With Enterprise 6, Business Objects has significantly enhanced its Web offering giving users full-featured, browser-based reporting and analysis," explained Nick Coniglio, vice president of service delivery for Solution Builders. "The solution features improved stability and performance, and advanced functionality that makes the software easier to customize. These improvements enhance our ability to extend the product to meet specific customer needs and help us provide Business Objects customers with cross-functional BI solutions that rapidly add value."
ThinkFast Consulting
"We are excited about the enhanced capabilities that BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 provides through the integration of best-of-breed technologies to support end-to-end, enterprise-class business intelligence solutions," said Tom Phelps, president of ThinkFast Consulting, Inc. "As a leader in delivering enterprise-wide performance management solutions across a range of industries, including Consumer Products, Energy, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Retail, ThinkFast Consulting is excited to support our clients to seamlessly connect all views of their business for more profitable decision-making, as well as to gain instant visibility into their most important Key Performance Indicators."
Xenon Consulting
"As a long time partner of Business Objects, Xenon Consulting has been able to deliver solutions to our clients using an integrated suite of Business Intelligence tools," said Pia Thompson, managing principal at Xenon Consulting, Inc. "Enterprise 6 continues to afford us the ability to provide our clients with a combination of build and buy technologies that are integral factors to their success. From executive dashboards which highlight key company performance indicators to up-to-date reports that provide key managers the ability to tightly manage spending, partnering with Business Objects has given us a leading edge in our market."
