Business Objects Announces BusinessObjects Data Quality XI; New Solution Builds on Business Objects Enterprise Information Management Strategy to Provide Organizations with Single, Trusted Source of Information

Business Wire, July 31, 2006

Expanded Ease of Use Capabilities Simplify Data Quality Management

Data Quality XI enables easier management of the entire data quality process with new reporting capabilities and an easy-to-use match wizard.

Data Quality XI simplifies administration of data quality projects with:

--Improved integration with Crystal Reports that provide administrators with statistical information on how data quality projects are performing. Now administrators can easily evaluate and improve the data quality process.

--A match wizard that guides administrators through the process of designing and deploying their matching strategies. Data Quality XI allows users to spend more time fine-tuning data quality strategies rather than learning how to be a matching expert.

Global Services Solutions for Data Quality

Business Objects Global Services offers a comprehensive set of professional services focused on data quality. Business Objects Data Services enable customers to source the right data, ensure consistent data quality, and implement a data architecture tailored to each organization's analytical and performance management requirements. Data Services leverages the Business Objects enterprise information management (EIM) solutions to ensure customers make decisions based on complete, timely, and accurate information. To learn more about Business Objects Global Services, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/services.> Availability

BusinessObjects Data Quality XI is currently expected to available in the third quarter of 2006. For more information, please visit: http://www.businessobjects.com/products/dataquality.> About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 39,000 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 complete and trusted platform for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and the company 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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Certain sections of this press release contain forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions regarding Business Objects' product release date. However, these statements are not guarantees of the date of availability, which may be delayed or cancelled, or of the availability of the features mentioned, which may be changed or removed prior to release. Statements such as "expected," "planned," "intends" or "anticipated" denote forward-looking statements, and the word "launch" refers to pre-release marketing activities and does not denote general availability. Forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. More information about potential factors that could affect Business Objects' business is included in Business Objects' Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2006, each of which is on file with the SEC and available at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. All forward looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. Business Objects is not obligated to undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances or changes in expectations after the date of this press release.