Business Objects Awards Five Customers For Excellence In E-Business Intelligence

Business Wire, Oct 19, 1999

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 19, 1999--

Eli Lilly, John Deere Health, Penske Logistics, T. Rowe Price, and TECHMAR Communications Recognized at Business Objects User Conference

As the world economy transitions to e-business, the ability to manage the information explosion and communicate with employees, customers, and partners over the internet becomes absolutely critical. Successful companies today recognize this opportunity and are deploying innovative e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions. These solutions represent the convergence of the internet and business intelligence, and allow people to access, analyze, and share information either within an enterprise via an intranet or beyond and enterprise via an extranet.

Today Business Objects presented the Business Objects Excellence Award to five of its customers who are capitalizing on the e-BI opportunity to gain competitive advantage, increase profits, and improve customer relationships. Eli Lilly and Company, John Deere Health, Penske Logistics, T. Rowe Price, and TECHMAR Communications were recognized at the 1999 Business Objects International User Conference in San Diego, California.

"Business Objects congratulates today's winners, who are innovative and visionary leaders in driving e-BI solutions," said Bernard Liautaud, president and chief executive officer of Business Objects. "We are very excited about the incredible momentum behind e-BI, and our customers from every industry who leverage our technology to do amazing things for their businesses."

This year marks the second annual Business Objects Excellence Awards, a program created to recognize successful and innovative Business Objects customers. This year's judges included Sandy Reed, editor in chief, InfoWorld; Wayne Eckerson, director, Patricia Seybold Group; and executives from Business Objects.

The following is a brief description of this year's winners:

- Eli Lilly and Company: Eli Lilly and Company has more than 5,000 Business Objects users in 62 countries around the world, making it one of the largest deployments in the Business Objects customer base. Lilly's Business Objects intranet links users across the enterprise, including the finance, human resources, manufacturing, and marketing departments.

- John Deere Health: In one year this healthcare provider deployed BusinessObjects and WebIntelligence to over 230 users in more than 20 departments. These business-line managers across the company are able to track critical information, and are using it to improve customer service and win new business.

- Penske Logistics: Penske Logistics is one of the largest providers of transportation and logistics services in North America, with customers across all major industries. Using WebIntelligence, Penske Logistics has enabled all of its employees - from the president of the division to all logistics center managers, to have access to truck and driver performance data and shipment delivery information. Penske's fleet of over 2,600 trucks are now tracked according to their location, departure, and arrival times, and other significant "events" used to measure and improve customer service.

- T. Rowe Price: This investment management firm has created a retirement fund extranet for their customers using WebIntelligence from Business Objects. Called Client Access Reporting Systems (CARS), this application enables institutional customers to get information on employee retirement funds, and helps T. Rowe Price stay ahead of competitors.

- TECHMAR Communications: A leading provider of integrated response management services, TECHMAR uses WebIntelligence to give their clients access to sales leads and marketing data via an extranet. This innovative e-business intelligence solution allows their clients to perform closed loop analysis, to calculate marketing dollars tied to sales revenue.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is a world-leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools. Business Objects products provide non-technical business users with access to information stored in data warehouses, data marts, and packaged business applications. Business Objects provides a complete suite of decision support tools including query, reporting, online analytical processing, data mining, and DSS administration for both client/server and internet environments. Business Objects has sold more than 1,317,000 licenses to over 8,600 organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide.

Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408-953-6000 or on the worldwide web at http://www.businessobjects.com. The Company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbol BOBJ.

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