Business Objects is the world's leading BI software company. Business Objects software helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improving decision-making and enterprise performance.

Business Objects offers a broad family of tools and applications to help teams optimize business performance by connecting people, information and businesses across the business network, regardless of the underlying business applications or data stores.  From query, reporting and analysis, to the superior visualization of information delivery, to enterprise performance management, Business Objects’ suite of products and tools can transform your decision making capabilities and optimize your business intelligence strategy.

Business Objects is the world's leading provider of enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business Objects enables organizations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance. The company's solutions leverage the information that is stored in an array of corporate databases, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems.

Popular uses of BI include management dashboards and scorecards, enterprise performance management applications, customer intelligence applications, enterprise reporting, financial reporting, and both customer and partner extranets. These solutions enable companies to gain visibility into their business, acquire and retain profitable customers, reduce costs, optimize the supply chain, increase productivity and improve financial performance.

Business Objects provides the industry's most integrated business intelligence platform, called XI 3.0. The BusinessObjects XI 3.0 platform breaks the barriers of traditional business intelligence (BI) to ensure that every person connected within an organization has trusted, immediate access to the business information they need to do their jobs—just as easily as they have access to e-mail or the Internet. It is the first and only BI platform to provide a full spectrum of BI capabilities—ranging from reporting, query and analysis, and dashboards and visualization, to intuitive discovery and advanced predictive analytics capabilities.

Business Objects has more than 42,000 customers in over 80 countries, including 80% of the Fortune 500 companies. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ and Euronext Paris.

Solutions

Business Objects integrates data from key sources, summarizes it and reports it, analyzes it using best practices and makes information actionable through management dashboards.

By unlocking the power of information, Business Objects solutions enable companies and organizations to:

• Improve revenue and profits by acquiring and retaining high value customers
  
• Reduce costs through more effective and responsive management
  
• Automate compliance with regulatory reporting requirements
  
• Improve customer loyalty through improved quality and superior service

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