BP Selects Products From Business Objects to Deliver Worldwide E-Business Intelligence

Business Wire, Nov 14, 2000

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2000

Extranet and Global Enterprise Deployments Will Fuel Stronger

Customer Relationships and Improve Operations

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, today announced that BP, one of the world's leading energy companies, has signed a contract worth more than $1.5 million, to expand its existing use of Business Objects solutions on a global scale throughout its enterprise. BP will also use WebIntelligence(R), the internet e-BI solution from Business Objects, to develop an extranet that will deliver critical information to its customers.

BP, which serves some 10 million customers globally each day, will use Business Objects as their e-BI platform for both its extranet and intranet deployments. BP is the latest customer to base its extranet strategy on Business Objects, the world's leading provider in this category with over 270 extranet customers.

"Business Objects will be a key component of our web-based business activity. The way we do business will be completely different in the future," said Paul Cooke, manager of the business intelligence center of expertise at BP. "What will have a significant impact on our business intelligence is e-commerce, and we expect Business Objects to play an important role in enabling us to meet those evolving business requirements."

BP will also use Business Objects solutions to provide powerful e-BI capabilities to its retail site management, sales, and marketing departments throughout the company. Employees throughout the company will access, analyze, and share information regarding customer behavior, sales, and marketing activity. In addition, BP will now further extend its use of Business Objects solutions across the downstream, chemical, and exploration parts of its business.

"Business Objects is now the recommended strategic solution for the delivery of information throughout BP," said Cooke. "Key benefits will include the ability to track day-to-day operations across all parts of our business, enabling immediate reaction to market opportunities and threats."

"We are now seeing a rapid growth in organizations looking to deploy intranet and extranet solutions as companies turn their focus on sharing information, not only internally, but also externally," said Dave Kellogg, senior vice president of marketing for Business Objects. "BP joins the growing number of organizations that are realizing significant benefits with the adoption of an e-business intelligence platform."

About BP

BP is a leading provider of energy and petrochemicals. With a head office in London, the company operates in 100 countries around the world, serving 10 million customers every day. The company has revenues in excess of $120 billion and employs 97,000 people around the world. BP delivers a wide range of products including fuel for transport, energy for heat and light, solar power, and petrochemicals for plastics, fibers, and fabrics.

In the United States, BP is the second largest supplier of gasoline, with 17,150 service stations. Outside North America, the company has a network of 11,850 service stations. Fuel service stations also sell food and other convenience goods. BP is also one of the world's largest suppliers of aviation fuel, and a major supplier of fuels and lubricants to the global shipping industry. Fueling services are available at more than 900 ports and 1,400 airports.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading provider of e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions. The company coined the term e-business intelligence in 1998 to describe the intersection of business intelligence and the internet. Using e-business intelligence, organizations can access, analyze, and share information in intranet, extranet, and e-business environments. In intranets, the company's products provide employees with information to make better business decisions, and are used in environments ranging from workgroups of 20 users to enterprise deployments exceeding 20,000. In the extranet environment, the company is pioneering the use of e-BI in applications that allow organizations to build stronger relationships by linking customers, partners, and suppliers via the internet. In addition, the company's products can improve the performance of an e-business by providing reporting and analysis against the ever-expanding amount of transaction and profile data that is collected each day throughout the world wide web.

Founded in 1990, Business Objects pioneered the modern business intelligence industry by inventing and patenting a "semantic layer" that insulates users from the technical complexity of database systems. Today, the company has over 11,500 customers in more than 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols Nasdaq:BOBJ and PARIS Bourse: code SICOVAM 12074, and included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408/953-6000 and http://www.businessobjects.com.