Business Objects to Host Webinar on Business Intelligence for Mid-Market Companies; Business Objects and Featured Industry Analyst to Discuss Ways to Overcome Technology Challenges and Data Integration Issues on a Mid-Market Budget

Business Wire, Sept 6, 2005

SAN JOSE, Calif. & PARIS -- Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that it will host a free Webinar addressing business intelligence for mid-sized companies. The Webinar will take place on Thursday, September 15, at 11:00 a.m. PDT.

Featured speaker Mika Krammer, research vice president and leading mid-market analyst at Gartner, will join executives from Business Objects to address the business challenges and key technology drivers of mid-size companies, and how business intelligence technology can help organizations meet their key business priorities.

Attendees of the Webinar will learn about:

--key business priorities and technology investment drivers for mid-size organizations

--what peer organizations are considering, and what they are investing in

--which technologies are hot, and which are not quite there yet

--how mid-size organizations are integrating their data and using business intelligence to help achieve their goals, without breaking the bank

To register for this event, please visit http://www.bobjects.com/smb/gartner05/register.php. For more information on Business Objects solutions available for mid-market organizations, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/BI_for_Midmarket/.> About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete platform for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting. Business Objects has built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and also offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com.

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