crystalreports.com Receives Widespread Praise From Customers; New On-Demand Business Intelligence Solution From Business Objects Focuses on Mid-Sized Organizations

Business Wire, April 10, 2006

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 the availability of crystalreports.com, the company's new software as a service offering. An on-demand report sharing platform that allows organizations to instantly share crucial information, crystalreports.com will allow mid-sized organizations to take advantage of the industry's most advanced and complete BI platform without requiring additional investments in their IT organization.

Crystal Reports(R) XI is the industry standard in reporting, and thousands of organizations rely on the solution to better understand and improve their performance. Critical business data already resides in Crystal Reports, and crystalreports.com allows organizations to easily share that information online. Business Objects customers have been previewing crystalreports.com over the past two months, and have high praise for this innovative new solution. Here are some of their comments:

E Team

"We provide emergency software and services that help federal and state agencies deal with major incidents and disasters -- we've helped support these agencies with everything from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina," said Eric Kant, director of field operations for E Team. "Crystal Reports has long been an important part of our ability to disseminate information and foster communication among disparate government agencies and emergency managers. We rely on Crystal Reports to increase these agencies' insight into response efforts and coordinate every aspect of disaster recovery such as tracking the requests for housing, recipients of federal aid, gallons of water delivered, or calls for police assistance. During Katrina this often meant churning out 30-40 reports each day. With crystalreports.com, we could provide those critical reporting capabilities more quickly and easily to a broader community of users. The efficiency of an on-demand solution would be of great benefit during emergency response, when time is of the essence."

Frontier Realty Group

"We are a real estate management company with approximately 35 owners and 1200 tenants," said Luka Hrstich, property manager of Frontier Realty Group. "Right now we use a property management software solution to run our business and we rely on Crystal Reports to create monthly reporting for our owners. Currently, we convert each Crystal report into an MS Excel document, print out each report, and then fax each report to individual owners. With crystalreports.com, we will now be able to share those reports in their original, rich visual format and save the time wasted in converting, printing, and faxing each of the monthly reports."

AbeTech

"As a small company with about 85 employees and a small IT staff, I am excited to see crystalreports.com," said Tim Anderson, chief operating officer of AbeTech. "This is an opportunity for us to take advantage of some of the best features of the BusinessObjects XI platform, without requiring additional IT resources. "We currently use Crystal Reports to communicate with our vendors, clients, and account managers by exporting reports to PDF files and distributing them via e-mail. But emailing PDF files is not efficient and we can't offer the information broadly throughout our client and vendor base. With crystalreports.com, we can point each client to a specific URL where they can see the contents of their report folders, and we can schedule when the reports are published. This would be our Holy Grail in client communications. Our mission is to be the best in client service in our industry. A solution like crystalreports.com helps us get closer to our clients and is critical to our future success."

Town Lake Animal Shelter

"The City of Austin implements a myriad of programs to meet the needs of the general public and tracks a huge amount of data associated with those programs," said Duron Davis, systems support technician at Town Lake Animal Shelter. "Our internal clients require a flexible, versatile resource that lets us link the maximum number of people with the broadest scope of information in as little time as possible. We believe that crystalreports.com can fulfill those requirements. Whether we're tracking bird flu or pet birds, we'll now be able to share current information with any of our customers or coworkers instantaneously, where before it took days and the information was always dated. crystalreports.com looks like yet another well-designed, cutting-edge software solution by Business Objects that will adequately meet our needs."

Applied Voice & Speech Technologies (AVST)

"We are a small shop of approximately 80 people and have been using Crystal Reports for about two years. We have created some amazing reports but don't have a practical or cost effective way to distribute them," said Denny Michael, vice president of marketing at AVST. "We could send a PDF report to the sales team that is over a hundred pages, but that's not practical. Nor is expanding our IT infrastructure. With crystalreports.com, we can bridge that gap. Being able to use Crystal Reports on demand takes reporting and distributing critical data to the next level."