Total Selects BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 as its Business Intelligence Standard
SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 16, 2003 -- Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris, Euroclear code: 12074), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Total (NYSE: TOT; Euroclear code 12027), the world's fourth largest oil and gas company has selected BusinessObjects™ Enterprise 6 as its corporate standard for all business intelligence projects throughout the company. Total will be using several components of the end-to-end suite from Business Objects, including BusinessObjects Data Integrator, BusinessObjects™, WebIntelligence®, and BusinessObjects BW Universe Builder, to track, understand, and manage operational data from several source systems, including a major ERP installation. Total will also be using professional services and education services from Business Objects.
"Standardization is not an instrument for wielding power but for generating profits," said Philippe Chalon, chief information officer at Total. "I consider that a certain level of standardization is absolutely fundamental. Whatever division is producing the data - exploration, Production, refining, marketing, or chemicals, standardization on Business Objects enables each user to gain from everybody else's skills and experience. It creates great synergies for the entire company."
A customer since 1991, Total has deployed more than 6,000 Business Objects licenses in NT and Unix environments, in all divisions and business areas: finance, HR, sales, and technical data. The group uses the complete integrated Business Objects suite, from Data Integrator, and connectivities with the group's other packaged applications through to query, reporting, and analysis tools in full client or web mode. Total also uses BusinessObjects BW Universe Builder to automatically generate universes from its SAP BW data sources.
"Total is a significant validation of the vision for BI that we are offering our customers," said Bernard Liautaud, chairman and chief executive officer of Business Objects. "By providing the industry's most complete and integrated suite of Products, global industry leaders like Total can standardize on one BI platform. This allows Total one single interface to access key data sources like SAP, allowing Total to obtain faster and greater enterprise performance gains. We look forward to continue working with Total to deliver a business intelligence solution that plays a valuable role in their company's performance."
"Business Objects gives us a powerful and totally transparent business intelligence solution for managing and processing the data produced by our ERP software," added Chalon. "There are two guiding principles to standardization, and Business Objects will allow us to achieve both: rationalization and economies of scale."
About Total
Total is the world's fourth-largest international oil and gas company. Its operations cover the entire oil and gas chain, from exploration and Production and the gas downstream to trading, shipping, refining and marketing, as well as chemicals. Total employs 121,000 people worldwide. http://www.total.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.
