SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 23, 2003 -Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced widespread global technology and systems integration 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.
Enterprise 6 delivers an end-to-end business intelligence solution that provides functionality unmatched in the industry. 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. Joint customers 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.
Several of the company's premier technology and systems integration partners have expressed their support for the launch of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, including:
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
"The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group is one of the world leaders in management consulting and IT services, dedicated to helping its client companies to develop and transform their organizations at every step of the value chain," said François Mazon, CEO of CGE&Y France. "Today, CGE&Y is the market leader in helping large organizations, such as Credit Commercial de France, France Telecom, Carrefour, Electricité de France, and Ford successfully implement business intelligence solutions. With the enhanced features in enterprise analytic applications and improved web functionality of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, we will strengthen our leadership position helping more and more customers to take full advantage of these new capabilities and maximize their ROI."
Hewlett-Packard
"BI and advanced analytics like those offered by Business Objects are clearly becoming more of a priority as companies seek to maximize their return on investment," said Bruno Castejon, director of customer relationship management and business intelligence solutions, HP Enterprise Systems Group. "By working with Business Objects to optimize Business Objects solutions on HP-UX 11i, HP helps offer customers worldwide a jump-start into extending the value of BI on an enterprise scale. "
Microsoft
"The business intelligence market is one of the fastest growing segments in the software industry, as leading companies have recognized the increased need to access and analyze their corporate data," said Graham Clark, GM of ISV partners at Microsoft. "BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 combined with the Microsoft Platform will enable customers to be 'connected' to critical business information on any device and in a format which they can easily act upon."
