Expedia, Inc. Flies First Class with BusinessObjects Enterprise 6
San Jose, Calif. – April 13, 2004 – More than 16 million travelers turn to Expedia, Inc. each month to build and book the perfect trip. Whether it is a dream vacation to Italy, or business travel to a conference in Chicago, Expedia™ helps its customers plan and book everything to make the trip a success. In order to keep those customers happy and returning to do more business, Expedia, Inc., the world’s leading online travel service, has turned to Business Objects, (Nasdaq: BOBJ Euronext Paris ISIN code FR0004026250-BOB), the world’s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, and its industry leading suite of products, BusinessObjects™ Enterprise 6.
Expedia, Inc. has selected BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 as its enterprise business intelligence standard. Business Objects will first be rolled out to the corporate travel division at Expedia to help build and deliver detailed reports for their clients. These reports contain a complete, customized view of Expedia’s overall business with an individual corporate customer. Using BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 to access data from its Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse, Expedia can quickly build and deliver robust business reporting that enables employees to effectively manage their client’s business. Expedia is also planning to implement an enterprise-wide reporting application using the BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 suite of products.
“Expedia has selected Business Objects to allow easy, self-service reporting on our data repositories,” said Mike Adair, senior vice president, Expedia Information Technology. “There is a real need to put users in the driver’s seat, to allow them to create their own reports, and empower them with information.”
“Expedia understands it is not in the report writing business,” said Dave Kellogg, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for Business Objects. “Business Objects helps Expedia by providing consistent information across the enterprise. Business intelligence allows employees to help themselves to information and deliver it to customers in a timely manner.”
About Expedia, Inc.
Expedia, Inc. is the world’s leading online travel service and the fourth largest travel agency in the U.S. Expedia’s award-winning Expert Searching and Pricing (ESP) technology delivers the most comprehensive flight options available online. ESP also allows customers to dynamically build complete trips that combine flights, Expedia® Special Rate hotels and other lodging, ground transportation, and destination activities. Expedia operates Classic Custom Vacations®, a leading distributor of premiere vacation packages to destinations such as Hawaii, Mexico, Europe and the Caribbean; and Expedia® Corporate Travel, a full-service corporate travel agency. Expedia, Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary, Travelscape, Inc., operates WWTE™, bringing complementary cross-sell and dynamic packaging booking functionality to third parties on a private-label basis. Expedia can be found on the Web at www.expedia.com. Expedia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI). CST: 2029030-40.
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.
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