PeopleSoft Launches Reporting Software Partner Program for Enterprise Performance Management; Customers Have Choice of Leading Business Intelligence Technologies

Business Wire, August 13, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2001

PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT) today announced it has launched a new reporting software partner program for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) customers, further strengthening PeopleSoft's leadership position in business analytics. The program provides customers the flexibility to integrate third-party reporting products that complement PeopleSoft's industry-leading Enterprise Performance Management solution.

PeopleSoft's best-in-class EPM suite is the industry's first pure internet solution to provide organizations with real-time visibility into critical business processes. The applications give organizations the insight needed to improve business performance in the areas of customer satisfaction and profitability, supplier effectiveness and employee potential.

Initial charter members of the program include leading business intelligence software companies, such as Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, Information Builders, MicroStrategy, and Seagate Software.

"Today's leading business intelligence companies provide a variety of reporting and analysis features to meet the diverse needs of analytic application users," said Henry Morris, vice president of applications and information access at IDC. "By partnering with industry-leading business intelligence companies, PeopleSoft can support its customers with a wide range of options for analytic reporting tools."

The program is designed to allow PeopleSoft EPM customers to take advantage of features and functionality from market-leading business intelligence solutions. Customers can create analytic reports in their favored reporting environment, allowing them to preserve existing investments in their preferred business intelligence technology. PeopleSoft's open architecture allows eligible program participants to seamlessly integrate their reporting technologies into PeopleSoft's EPM solution, and provide customers with easy access to PeopleSoft business analytics through a standard web browser.

"PeopleSoft's open and flexible pure internet architecture enables our customers to leverage the power of PeopleSoft's EPM solution together with the reporting technology of their choice," said Chuck Teller, vice president and general manager of PeopleSoft's Enterprise Performance Management division. "The program was developed to empower our customers with the information and tools they need to improve decision making and overall performance across their organization."

About PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft Inc. is a world leader in providing eBusiness applications that enable people -- customers, suppliers, and employees -- to power the internet. PeopleSoft's pure internet Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, and Enterprise management solutions provide the industry's most open and flexible e-commerce platform. PeopleSoft employs more than 8,500 people worldwide, including 2,700 eBusiness consultants. More than 4,700 organizations in 107 countries run on PeopleSoft eBusiness applications. For more information, visit us at www.peoplesoft.com.

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