Business Objects Rated Number One by Readers of Intelligent Enterprise
San Jose, Calif. - November 7, 2003 -- For the third year in a row, readers of Intelligent Enterprise have recognized Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, as a winner of an Intelligent Enterprise 2003 Readers' Choice Award. This award honors companies whose products best enable organizations to deploy strategic applications that collect, analyze, and deliver business information to improve performance and maximize customer relationships. Subscribers to Intelligent Enterprise voted BusinessObjects™ Developer Suite, part of the integrated BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 product suite, as the top product in the BI Application and Development Tools category.
"Intelligent Enterprise readers have selected BusinessObjects DeveloperSuite as one of the best strategic IT products on the market," said David Stodder, editor-in-chief of Intelligent Enterprise. "This honor gives testimony to Business Objects contribution to an organization's strategy that enables an intelligent enterprise."
"We are pleased to have won an Intelligent Enterprise Readers' Choice Award for the third year in a row," said Bernard Liautaud, CEO of Business Objects. "We are always gratified when the users of our products honor us. As the world's leading provider of business intelligence, we understand that significant competitive advantage comes from analyzing and acting upon data to gain more visibility into the business and take action to improve enterprise performance. We are happy to see the readers of Intelligent Enterprise embracing BusinessObjects Developer Suite, which is an important component of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, our industry-leading integrated business intelligence (BI) suite."
Voting was open exclusively to the more than 80,000 Intelligent Enterprise subscribers. Results will be published in the November 18, 2003 issue of Intelligent Enterprise Magazine. Readers made their choices among several categories of products in the four Intelligent Enterprise technology focus areas: intelligence, integration, infrastructure, and collaborative commerce. Readers also voiced their opinions about their most important reasons to buy strategic software right now. Visit www.intelligententerprise.com for the full story.
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Published 18 times annually, Intelligent Enterprise is the only magazine dedicated to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves an exclusive audience of 100,000 business and IT professionals who plan and deploy the strategic applications their companies depend on to improve decision making, enhance business performance, and maximize the value of customer relationships. It provides both the context and the technical detail needed to take strategic business applications from concept to deployment, covering such interlocking technology categories as: application development, business intelligence and data warehousing, data management, enterprise application integration, enterprise/e-business applications, CRM and customer analytics, knowledge management, scalable server hardware, enterprise storage, and systems and applications management. For more information, contact Tara Gibb at 650-513-4566 or tgibb@cmp.com. Access free subscriptions from the Web site at www.intelligententerprise.com.
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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.
