Business Objects Continues Leadership in Enterprise Information Management With Ongoing Innovation

Business Wire, April 27, 2007

Enhanced BusinessObjects Data Integrator and Data Federator Solutions, Now Generally Available

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 increased its leadership and momentum in delivering advanced solutions for organizations implementing enterprise information management (EIM) strategies. Business Objects has seen growing adoption among new users, as well as an existing customer base looking to complement existing BI deployments with data management strategies. The company is continuing to meet the increasing demand for data integration solutions with ongoing product innovation, and today announced that its BusinessObjects[TM] Data Integrator Release 2 Version 11.7 and BusinessObjects Data Federator Release 2 Version 11.7 are now generally available.

With a comprehensive data management technology offering, Business Objects is uniquely positioned to deliver customers a complete suite of business intelligence solutions from a single vendor. During 2006, the company accelerated its delivery of technologies and services for EIM requirements globally, moving it into a leadership position in enterprise information management, as it continues to lead the overall business intelligence market.

"Business Objects has adeptly positioned itself as a comprehensive provider of data management solutions that go well beyond its core BI focus," said James Kobielus, principal analyst at Current Analysis. "The company's product innovation, partnering agility, and continued sales growth over the last year have been particularly impressive. It remains to be seen whether Business Objects' traditional BI competitors can keep pace with its dynamic evolution into a leader in the data integration and data quality arenas."

"We needed BusinessObjects Data Integrator to pull our jumble of data sources together," said George Neill, director of information technology at Organic Valley Family of Farms. "An immediately measurable benefit of using Data Integrator was that it cut three weeks of development time off a major integration project, on an already tight timeline. Data Integrator gives us dramatically more visibility and control over the entire integration process. From an IT standpoint, Business Objects hasn't been a high-maintenance application. We bought it and it works -- it just does what it's supposed to do."

Ongoing Product Innovation Enables Trusted Information to be Delivered More Quickly

New versions of Data Integrator and Data Federator enhance scalability and performance for moving massive amounts of information, allowing trusted information to be delivered more quickly.

BusinessObjects Data Integrator XI Release 2 Version 11.7 provides a comprehensive platform that enables organizations to quickly and easily design and deploy data integration within any environment. It allows users to explore, extract, transform, and deliver data anywhere to ensure that end-users are always working with readily available, accurate, and trusted information. New features in this release provide extreme scalability and performance through highly granular grid computing and enhanced memory and cache management. The release also extends data quality capabilities through integration with BusinessObjects Data Quality XI. New capabilities including native Excel Workbook support, intermediate data staging, performance self-tuning, and enhanced scheduling and security, further enhance developer and deployment productivity.

BusinessObjects Data Federator XI Release 2 Version 11.7 is an advanced enterprise information integration product that accelerates business intelligence query performance and extends the data warehouse via agile, on-demand, virtual data integration. The latest release improves query performance, offers an enhanced user interface, and delivers improved usability. The solution also extends connectivity options by adding new data sources and improved integration across the BusinessObjects XI platform.

"Enterprise information management is a critical success factor for companies looking to create a single foundation of trusted business information," said Pascal Clement, vice president of EIM at Business Objects. "We are committed to delivering the industry's best data integration, data quality, and metadata management solutions as part of our complete portfolio of business intelligence offerings. We're pleased and excited about our momentum thus far, and are looking forward to continuing to provide exceptional value to our customers."

For additional information on Business Objects data management solutions, please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/EIM.> About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 42,000 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.