Business Objects Awards Customers for Excellence in Business Intelligence
Business Objects International User Conference, Phoenix, AZ - November 11, 2003 -- Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ Euronext Paris ISIN code FR0004026250-BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today honored five companies that are using business intelligence to provide real time insights into their business performance. This year's winners of the Business Objects Customer Excellence Award - DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Jenny Craig, Inc., Morgan Stanley, Unisys, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - represent diverse industries, but share a common objective. All rely on business intelligence solutions from Business Objects to maximize business performance to manage common goals, track and act on metrics that matter, and make smarter decisions that translate into improved organizational performance.
As part of this year's awards, Business Objects also presented the CIO Leadership award to Reese Harasawa of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, for his leadership in using Business Objects solutions to create an innovative enterprise performance management system. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi uses Business Objects to monitor and analyze the performance of the business from several different perspectives to improve profitability and customer satisfaction. Mr. Harasawa and the five winning customers were honored today at the 2003 Business Objects International User Conference in Phoenix, AZ.
"With over 18,000 customers today, Business Objects plays a vital role in helping companies around the world improve their performance," said Bernard Liautaud, CEO of Business Objects. "The five customers we are honoring today represent innovative and dynamic companies that are great examples of the value business intelligence can bring to an organization. These companies have gone far beyond simple access and delivery of information - they are using Business Objects to align their organization around metrics and goals, and improve overall performance."
Following is a brief description of this year's winners:
Jenny Craig, Inc.: Jenny Craig has deployed BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 for enterprise performance management. The company uses Business Objects to track, understand, and manage several areas of its business, including client progress, client loyalty, direct marketing, and financial analysis. The weight management provider uses BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 for daily reports for managers to track key performance indicators, and for analysis of customer profiles and marketing efforts. Jenny Craig began using Business Objects as its standard query, reporting and analysis solution three years ago. Two years later, the business intelligence implementation became a corporate-wide initiative when they integrated customer, financial, and marketing data. The initiative has helped the weight management provider better understand the needs of its clients, improve the performance of its business, and manage it 649 client centers worldwide.
Morgan Stanley: Morgan Stanley, a global financial services firm, has rolled out BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 to more than 14,000 users as part of its world-class CRM project to support the Individual Investor Group. With BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, knowledge has been put into the hands of the people who interact with customers - specifically the financial advisors and sales support personnel. Business Objects solutions power the Business Intelligence System (BIS) at Morgan Stanley to provide a holistic view of clients that enables the sales force to better understand and better meet the needs of their clients. For example, Morgan Stanley's financial advisers can now get a 360-degree view of each client through a menu of reports accessed via the company intranet, and sort through insightful client-centric knowledge derived often through predictive modeling. Senior management also has access to an array of summary level reports that focus on key performance areas and can be viewed at any organizational level.
Unisys: BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 is the global BI standard at Unisys, a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Unisys boasts more than 8,000 users of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 in more than 50 countries. Employees use Business Objects in several departments, including finance, human resources, marketing, sales, and supply chain. For example, using WebIntelligenceÒ the integrated query, reporting, and analysis solution for the web, employees in the finance department access a company-wide intranet to gather the latest information on orders, backlog, revenue per country, and per product. Managers in the supply-chain division rely on the intranet to analyze where the order is located during the shipment process, and when it will be delivered. In addition, BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 gives Unisys the power to provide the latest reports to its field sales representatives so they are on top of forecasting and the sales pipeline.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): In an effort to more easily track, understand, and manage the large amounts of information available from the organization's multiple data sources, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has deployed an enterprise performance management dashboard using Business Objects solutions. The Business Objects dashboard provides fast access to financial data, and will soon provide access to environmental data. This will streamline the agency's existing reporting capabilities and provide executives with a graphical interface for analyzing key performance indicators.
CIO Leadership Award- Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Reese Harasawa, CIO of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, is the recipient of this year's CIO Leadership Award. Mr. Harasawa led the implementation of an enterprise performance management system accessed by thousands of employees across all departments at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, a leading commercial and investment banking institution serving global financial markets. Using Business Objects solutions, users at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi can access information to help increase revenues and profits through improved understanding of profitable customers. In addition, BTM uses Business Objects solutions to improve resource deployment by aligning skill sets and resources with their business strategy and environment.
This year marks the 6th annual Business Objects Customer Excellence Awards, a program created to recognize successful and innovative Business Objects customers. Last year's winners were ABN AMRO Bank, EDS, France Telecom, Lands' End, and MasterCard International.
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.
