Business Objects Announces Continued Growth of Indirect Channels; Signs New Partners; More than 500 Partners Worldwide that Package, Resell, and Service Business Objects Suite of Decision Support Tools

Business Wire, August 13, 1997

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 1997--Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, today announced that it has added more than 50 new partners since the beginning of 1997, increasing its program to over 500 partners worldwide.

Indirect sales for the company grew to approximately 35% in the first half of 1997.

"We are excited to see this continued growth of our partners program," said Dave Ellett, chief operating officer at Business Objects. "Indirect sales are an important part of our sales strategy and we are fortunate to have such an assortment of high caliber partners working with us to provide mutual customers with a complete decision support solution."

About the Business Objects Partners Program

The Business Objects Partners Program consists of partners in five categories: application VARs, resellers and distributors, system integrators, consulting and training partners, and technology alliance partners.

Application VARS

Application VARs are client/server application providers that have recently signed agreements to integrate BusinessObjects within their own products. New application VARs include:

Algorithimics Inc., Fraser Williams, Interactive Medical Services,

PACE Health, Powercerv, Management Systems, ReadQ Systems Inc.,

Turnkey Business Solutions, Unidata, The Accounting House, Baum

Hart & Partners, Chase Computers, Clinical Data, Custima Ltd.,

Oakwood Consultants Ltd., Open System Group Ltd., Orchard Software,

QSA, Rolfe & Nolan, Swallow Information Systems and Consultancy,

Intex, Promatis, and Generix.

Resellers, Distributors, and Systems Integrators

Resellers, distProfound Consulting, Sequent, Softworks

Consulting, Metier, Technology Transfer Group Inc., Bay Networks,

S.A., Panama

Consulting and Training Pdes a complete suite of decision support tools ded under the ticker symbol BOBJY. -0-

Note to Editors: BusinessObjects, BusinessQuery, BusinessMiner, and WebIntelligence are trademarks of Business Objects S.A. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

A full-text copy of this announcement may be obtained by calling the company's fax retrieval line at 800/414-2114 and selecting option "two." The announcement may also be downloaded from the Web; access http://www.businesswire.com/cnn and search on "Business Objects." Business Objects product inquiries should contact 800/527-0580.

CONTACT: Business Objects

Danielle Dawson, 408/953-6108