Crystal Reports XI and Crystal Reports Server XI Win 2006 Readers' Choice Awards From Visual Studio Magazine; Readers Select Business Objects Reporting Solutions as Best Microsoft .NET Products for the Eleventh Year in a Row

Business Wire, June 27, 2006

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 Visual Studio Magazine has awarded top honors to Crystal Reports(R) XI and Crystal Reports(R) Server XI. Selected by the readers of Visual Studio Magazine, the highly coveted Readers' Choice Awards honor the best Microsoft .NET products of 2006 in 22 development categories. The awards were announced at the TechEd 2006 Conference, held in Boston, June 11 - 16.

For the eleventh year in a row, Crystal Reports XI won for Best Data Editing, Reporting and Analysis Tools, and Crystal Reports Server XI won for Best Middleware and Server-Based Tools. The Readers' Choice Awards are significant because the winners are chosen by the developers who use the products everyday to create compelling and innovative business intelligence applications.

"Our readers have once again recognized Crystal Reports and Crystal Reports Server as the best solutions in their respective categories," said Patrick Meader, editor-in-chief of Visual Studio Magazine. "For more than eleven years, Visual Studio Magazine has been the leading source of technical information for the Microsoft development community, and the Readers' Choice Awards continue to reflect the technologies that our readers recognize for exceptional value and innovation."

"The Visual Studio Magazine awards further validate our assertion that when developers working in a Microsoft environment want to create world class business intelligence applications, they turn to Business Objects," said Tim Lang, vice president of developer marketing at Business Objects. "No other solution can offer our level of innovation, rich integration points, and ability to combine multiple data sources. We are pleased the readers of Visual Studio Magazine recognize this and we will continue to provide them with software solutions that allow them to turn their big ideas into reality."

As a result of a rich history of innovation, significant adoption from the developer community, and OEM agreements with hundreds of independent software providers over the years, Crystal Reports is now the de facto standard for reporting. Crystal Reports XI, part of the BusinessObjects(TM) XI platform, offers benefits for organizations of all sizes, including easier report design, simplified report maintenance, expanded data access, and complete integration with the BusinessObjects XI platform. Crystal Reports Server XI provides small and medium-sized organizations with a packaged reporting platform they can easily deploy and manage. With Crystal Reports Server XI, these organizations can securely deliver reports over the web and easily embed reporting into business applications.

For more information on Business Objects business intelligence solutions, please visit www.businessobjects.com/solutions/.> About Visual Studio Magazine, www.visualstudiomagazine.com

Visual Studio Magazine, formerly Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, has been the leading independent source for technical information for professional developers working with Microsoft-based toolsets and technologies for almost 15 years.

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About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 35,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and 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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