Business Objects and Teradata Expand Relationship in Retail Industry; BusinessObjects 6.5 and Crystal Version 10 Pass Teradata's Retail Decisions Solution Benchmark

Business Wire, Oct 18, 2004

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that is has expanded its relationship with Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation. BusinessObjects(TM) 6.5 and Crystal Version 10 have passed Teradata's Retail Decisions Benchmark, a key milestone in the relationship that enables increased joint selling and co-marketing activities within the retail industry. Business Objects was the first business intelligence vendor to pass the Teradata benchmark, and easily demonstrated its ability to perform complex retail analyses and deliver high levels of performance on large retail Teradata databases.

Retailers gather mountains of data on their customers, vendors, products, and store operations. Business Objects software, together with Teradata Retail Decisions solution, enables retailers to gain valuable insights to improve retail operations. Using the reporting and ad-hoc analysis functionality from Business Objects, retailers can improve performance by better understanding which items, locations, and vendors contribute the most to sales and profitability.

"With the pace of change in retail, it is imperative for Tesco to have good quality information at the fingertips of those who need it," said Colin Cobain, IT director of Tesco Stores Limited, one of the world's largest international retailers. "As we consolidate our data from around the world, Business Objects and Teradata help us to achieve this objective."

As part of the benchmarking process, Business Objects implemented a subset of Retail Decisions, including Teradata's most complicated analytics, and demonstrated query performance that met or exceeded specific performance requirements. The performance of Business Objects on this benchmark demonstrates that its business intelligence suite is well suited to deliver the most demanding Retail Decisions analytics on Teradata.

"Retailers look to Teradata to ensure ease of integration and optimized Teradata performance to meet their most demanding requirements," said Mark Howell, vice president of global alliances for Teradata. "We are excited to be working with Business Objects as a business intelligence solution for Teradata's Retail Decisions."

Business Objects and Teradata have had a corporate alliance for over several years and have many joint customers, particularly in the retail and telecommunications industry. Business Objects has an active engineering program and a Teradata Customer Advisory Group, to ensure its software can take advantage of Teradata features.

"Business Objects business intelligence solutions have seen tremendous success in the retail industry," said Janet Wood, group vice president of global alliances and OEM at Business Objects. "Our expanding relationship with Teradata brings together complementary solutions that are focused on meeting the demanding customer requirements of the retail industry. Our longstanding partnership with Teradata has already resulted in many successful customer deployments, and this new joint selling effort will greatly expand our presence in this market."

For more information on retail solutions from Business Objects, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/retail/.> About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. Business intelligence enables organizations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance. The company's solutions leverage the information that is stored in an array of corporate databases, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems.

Popular uses of BI include enterprise reporting, management dashboards and scorecards, customer intelligence applications, financial reporting, and both customer and partner extranets. These solutions enable companies to gain visibility into their business, acquire and retain profitable customers, reduce costs, optimize the supply chain, increase productivity, and improve financial performance.

In December 2003, Business Objects completed the acquisition of Crystal Decisions, the leader in enterprise reporting. The combined product line includes software for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, analytic applications, and data integration. In addition, Business Objects offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has more than 26,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB). It is 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.

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