Centerpulse Selects Business Objects for
End-to-end Business Intelligence Solution
SAN JOSE, Calif. - May 5, 2003 -- Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Centerpulse (NYSE: CEP) has selected Business Objects for its end-to-end business intelligence solution. Centerpulse, a worldwide provider of medical and dental implantable Products, will use Business Objects to track, understand, and manage key performance metrics from multiple data sources throughout the organization.
The solution combines the power of Business Objects query, reporting, and analysis Products - BusinessObjectsT and WebIntelligence® -- with its enterprise-class data integration Product, BusinessObjectsT Data Integrator. Centerpulse required a solution that could access and integrate data from multiple sources, including Oracle Applications, Manugistics, and a variety of externally purchased datasets including demographic and market share statistics.
End-to-end with One Vendor
"Business Objects is a more complete solution," said Michael Porter, data warehouse project manager at Centerpulse. "It's far superior in enabling us to integrate data from all the sources we use, apply the precise analysis we require, then produce the reports that are the most useful to our users. It's a true end-to-end solution - a single way to deliver vital data from all sources to all users -- and we are seeing a greater return on investment in key parts of our information infrastructure."
"Centerpulse is a great example of how we are delivering on our vision of end-to-end business intelligence," said Dave Kellogg, senior group vice president of worldwide marketing at Business Objects. "More and more, companies are selecting Business Objects as their enterprise standard because they recognize there is only one vendor that can offer best-of-breed in both data integration and business intelligence Products. One vendor, one integrated suite of Products, and one support and maintenance path, to help them reach and exceed their enterprise performance goals."
In the project's first phase, Centerpulse is using the solution at its Orthopedic and Dental Divisions. A customer of Business Objects since the early 1990s, Centerpulse is working toward complete data integration, reporting on performance data - sales, demographics, and market share -- from a data warehouse and third-party sources.
About Centerpulse
Centerpulse is one of the world's leading medical technology companies with more than 1 billion CHF (US$744 million) in sales. The company, which develops medical devices, instruments and biomaterials for the global health care market, became publicly traded in 1997 (NYSE: CEP / Zurich Stock Exchange: CEP). Centerpulse is headquartered in Zurich and has three business units: Orthopedics in Winterthur, Switzerland and Austin, Texas; Spine in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Dental in Carlsbad, California. More information is located at www.centerpulse.com.
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 gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects™ XI, offers the BI industry's most complete and trusted platform for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports®, the industry standard for enterprise reporting. Business Objects has built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and also offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.
Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com.
