University of Notre Dame Standardizes on Business Objects
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sept. 7, 2004 - Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250-BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that the University of Notre Dame has standardized on a BI solution from Business Objects. A customer of Business Objects since 1998, the university is in the process of upgrading and expanding its current deployment, which includes WebIntelligence® and BusinessObjects™ Dashboard Manager, to better track, understand, and manage performance.
Notre Dame will use Business Objects to access and analyze performance data across operational areas, including finance and human resources, student demographics and performance, financial aid, and fund raising, as well as academic programs and research. The university will also create customized dashboards to enable top administrators to view relevant key performance metrics, receive automatic alerts regarding pre-defined events, and click on individual metrics to explore underlying data.
“Notre Dame is expanding its use of Business Objects solutions to provide access to information that is accurate, timely, consistent, and of strategic value,” said Gordon Wishon, CIO at Notre Dame. “The implementation will give Notre Dame a set of analytic tools that allow decision makers to detect trends and explore the effects of changing parameters in multiple scenarios.”
“Notre Dame is breaking new ground in adopting business intelligence to manage enterprise performance in every area of an academic institution,” said Greg Lorden, vice president of Government for Business Objects. “Business Objects solutions are directly contributing to the improved operation of one the nation's most admired educational institutions, in a way that has far-reaching implications for the way universities operate.”
About Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame, founded in 1842 by a priest of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, is an independent, national Catholic university located at Notre Dame, Indiana, adjacent to the city of South Bend and approximately 90 miles southeast of Chicago.
Admission to the University is highly competitive, with five applicants for each freshman class position. Sixty-five percent of incoming freshmen were in the top five percent of their high school graduating classes.
The source of the University's academic strength is its faculty, which since 1988 has seen the addition of more than 200 new members and the establishment of some 80 new endowed professorships. Notre Dame faculty members have won 16 fellowships form the National Endowment for the Humanities in the past four years, more than any other university in the nation.
With 1,250 acres containing two lakes and 136 buildings with a total property replacement value of $2 billion, Notre Dame is well known for the quality of its physical plant and the beauty of its campus. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the 14-story Hesburgh Library with its 132-feet-high mural depicting Christ the Teacher, and the University's newly renovated 124-year-old Main Building with its famed Golden Dome are among the most widely known university landmarks in the world. For more information, please visit http://www.nd.edu.
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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