Business Objects Announces Support for HP Neoview

Business Objects Announces Support for HP Neoview

BI Leader Complements HP Data Warehouse Solution to Help Customers Realize Benefits of Increased Visibility and Insight

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 – BOB), the world’s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced its plans to support the HP Neoview data warehouse platform, offering customers an integrated solution to confidently gather and analyze their data to make better decisions.

The company’s best-in-class BI solutions including BusinessObjects™ XI, which offers the BI industry’s most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management, will interoperate with HP Neoview to provide customers with enterprise-class data warehousing , meeting highly scalable performance requirements more quickly. As a result, customers will be able to benefit from gaining timely and trusted information to achieve positive business outcomes.

“We are pleased to participate in the launch of HP Neoview,” said Donald MacCormick , vice-president of product marketing at Business Objects. “Today, our customers are faced with dramatic increases in data volumes and the requirement to deliver information to more and more users, which can put enormous pressure on traditional data warehousing approaches. They urgently need trustworthy information, but cannot afford lengthy and complex implementations of the data infrastructure underpinning their BI projects. Business Objects is working with HP to help solve these challenges. Combining the appliance-like approach of HP’s Neoview with Business Objects’ full suite of BI solutions, we will offer a flexible and innovative way for customers to quickly deploy our joint solution, and start to enjoy the benefits quickly.”

The company also announced plans to develop new jointly-integrated solutions for various industry sectors. This follows the existing HP Oneview customer-centric data warehouse solution for the telecommunications industry. The HP Oneview solution leverages HP’s powerful Neoview database platform, and utilizes BusinessObjects XI for analysis, reporting, dashboards, and scorecards. The solution enables network and service providers to analyze customer interaction data (voice, IP, video) for customer retention and life time customer value, and to develop effective campaigns to acquire new customers.

Business Objects, working with its industry-leading partners such as HP, offers customers an unrivaled set of solutions to meet the information management demands of today’s top organizations. Companies need simplified access to data they can trust as the basis of their business intelligence and performance management initiatives. Joint customers can benefit from the ability to ensure their data is accurate, integrated, and timely.

“Our customers depend on business intelligence more than ever to optimize their information assets,” said Ben Barnes, vice president and general manager, Business Intelligence Group, Software, HP. “The combined strength of BusinessObjects XI and HP Neoview will give customers the just-in-time information necessary when making critical business decisions.”

Today’s announcement further expands a long-standing relationship between Business Objects and HP, and also extends the joint commitment to the Business Objects Open Appliance Initiative, a global partner network of BI appliances which includes HP, announced on March 14th.

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™ 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.

Forward Looking Statement

Certain sections of this press release contain forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions regarding availability of Business Objects’ products which will support HP solutions. These statements are not guarantees of the availability of such products, which may be delayed or cancelled, or of the availability of the features mentioned which may be changed or removed prior to release. 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, 2006 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 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.

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