BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0 Endorsed by Industry Leaders; Business Objects Partners Support Industry's Leading Integrated Query, Reporting, and Online Analytical Processing Tool

Business Wire, March 25, 1996

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 1996--Business Objects, a leading provider of enterprise decision support tools, today announced support from key industry-leading information technology providers for its latest product offering, BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0.

Announced today, BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0 is the industry's leading integrated query, reporting, and online analytical processing (OLAP) tool.

Business Objects partners announcing support include industry- leading hardware companies, software vendors, data warehouse companies, systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs), and value-added resellers (VARs). These partners are committed to working with Business Objects to deliver advanced decision support solutions with robust multidimensional analysis capabilities, enabling joint customers to better leverage their technology investments.

Key partners endorsing BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0 today are:

-- Arbor Software -- Computer Professionals, Inc. -- Corporate Systems -- Digital Equipment Corporation -- Hewlett Packard -- IBM -- Informix -- NCR (formerly AT&T GIS) -- Oracle Corp. -- Prism Solutions -- Pyramid Technologies -- Red Brick Systems -- Silicon Graphics, Inc. -- Sybase -- Tandem Computers Inc. -- Unisys -- Vantive

"The show of support for BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0 from top industry solutions providers reflects the growing customer need to fully leverage decision support investments, such as a data warehousing," said Bernard Liautaud, president and CEO of Business Objects. "By delivering a new level of analysis capabilities to the mainstream business user, we are raising the bar for decision support software."

"We are committed to making our partners successful with BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0 by providing them with the most advanced integrated query, reporting and analysis technology available today," said Denis Payre, chief operating officer for Business Objects. "We will continue to work closely with our partners to deliver comprehensive decision support solutions to our mutual customers."

About Business Objects

Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJY) is a leading provider of enterprise decision support tools that delivers access to data stored in corporate databases, data warehouses, and packaged applications. The company pioneered the market for business-intelligent decision support tools in 1990 with the introduction of its flagship product, BUSINESSOBJECTS, the first decision support tool to use a "semantic layer" to map complex database schemas to a business representation understandable by mainstream business users.

Business Objects generated over $60M in revenue in 1995, concluding its fifth consecutive year of more than 100% revenue growth. BUSINESSOBJECTS has been licensed in more than 40 countries to over 2,600 customer sites and 130,000 users worldwide. -0-

Note to Editors: BUSINESSOBJECTS is a trademark of Business Objects S.A. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

-- BUSINESSOBJECTS Product Inquiries can be sent to Business Objects at 800/527-0580 or on the World Wide Web at http://www.BUSINESSOBJECTS.com.

-- Please see additional press releases "Business Objects Announces BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0", "Business Objects Announces BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0 SUPERVISOR and DESIGNER Modules", and "Business Objects Announces BUSINESSOBJECTS 4.0 USER Module"

CONTACT: Business Objects

Tracy Eiler, 408/973-9300

teiler@busobj.com

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Dana Larson, 415/512-0500 x241

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