Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ) is a French company that develops enterprise software, specifically software that provides business intelligence (BI) to businesses. The company claims more than 42,000 customers worldwide. Their flagship product is BusinessObjects™ XI, with components that provide performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. Like many enterprise software companies, Business Objects also offers consulting and education services to help customers deploy their business intelligence projects. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Euronext N.V. is a pan-European stock exchange based in Paris[1] and with subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see San José. Nickname: Location of San Jose within Santa Clara County, California. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Software redirects here. ... Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... This article is about work. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Enterprise Software is software that solves an enterprise problem (rather than a departmental problem) and usually enterprise software is written using Enterprise Software Architecture. ... Business intelligence (BI) is a business management term, which refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about company operations. ...

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History

The company was founded in 1990 in Paris, and in 1991, signed its first customer, France Télécom.

• 1990, launched BusinessObjects Skipper SQL 2.0.x
• 1994, launched BusinessObjects v3.0 and went public on the NASDAQ - the first European company in history to do so.
• 1995, Business Objects was the first to focus on enterprise-scale BI deployments.
• 1996, entered the OLAP market and launched BusinessObjects v4.0. Bernard Liautaud was named one of Business Week's "Hottest Entrepreneurs of the Year."
• 1997, crossed the $100M chasm and pioneered the business intelligence (BI) extranet market. Introduced WebIntelligence.
• 1999, its #1 customer today, General Electric (GE), started working with the company. Also went public in France on the Premier Marché. Acquired Next Action Technologies.
• 2000, delivered the industry's first interactive mobile BI solution. Acquired OLAP@Work.
• 2001, opened San Jose, Calif., office; and SAP signed an OEM and reseller agreement to bundle Crystal Reports. Acquired Blue Edge Software.
• 2002, acquired Acta Technologies. Bernard Liautaud was named to Business Week's "Stars of Europe," and the company was named one of the "100 Fastest Growing Tech Companies" by Business 2.0.
• 2003, acquired Crystal Decisions. Also released Dashboard Manager, BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, and BusinessObjects Performance Manager.
• 2004, launched new combined company with the slogan, "Our Future is Clear, Crystal Clear." Launched Crystal v10 and BusinessObjects v6.5
• 2005, launched BusinessObjects XI, acquired SRC Software, Infommersion, and Medience. Launched BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Release 2.
• 2006, on 8 February 2006 Business Objects acquired Firstlogic, Inc.
• 2006, acquired ALG.
• 2006, on 30 November 2006 Business Objects acquired Nsite Software, Inc.
• 2006, launched Crystal Xcelsius, which allows users to transform Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data into interactive Flash media files.
• 2007, on 23 April 2007 Business Objects announced their intention to buy Cartesis (a vendor of reporting and planning software) and Konak.
• 2007, on 22 May 2007 Business Objects announced their intention to acquire Inxight Software.
• 2007, on 1 Jun 2007 Business Objects announces close of Cartesis acquisition.
• 2007, on 5 July 2007 Business Objects announces close of Inxight acquisition.
• 2007, on 6 September 2007 Business Objects announces their intention to acquire FUZZY! Informatik AG.
• 2007, on 7 October SAP's Chief Executive Henning Kagermann announced a $6.8 billion deal to acquire Business Objects. The deal is expected to be closed in 2008.

Products

• BusinessObjects XI (XI Release 2 is the latest version)

• common services to simplify deployment and management of BI tools
• reporting
• query and analysis allows for self-service reporting.
• Enterprise Information Management (EIM) integrates and improves data to create a trusted foundation for business decisions. Creates a basis for querying and analysis through ETL or EII.
• Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) helps users align with strategy by tracking and analyzing key business metrics and goals via management dashboards, scorecards, analytics, and alerting.
• Enterprise Reporting (Crystal Reports) access, format, and deliver information to large populations of users.

• Data Visualization (Crystal Xcelsius) turns static data (from Business Objects XI, databases, Excel spreadsheets) into dashboards and presentations filled with dynamic charts and graphics.

• Business Intelligence OnDemand - on-demand (or SaaS) BI software that is hosted on the web by Business Objects.

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Recent News

On December 22 2006 BOBJ received a tax reassessment of approximately 85 million euros including interest and penalties related to the transfer of some assets to its Irish subsidiary in 2003 and 2004.^[2]

On April 2 2007 A lawsuit from Informatica (inherited by BOBJ from the purchase of Acta Technologies in 2002) results in an award of $25 million in damages to Informatica for patent infringement. The lawsuit related to embedded data flows with one input and one output. Informatica asserted that the ActaWorks product (now sold by BOBJ as part of Data Integrator), infringed several Informatica patents including U.S. Patent Nos. 6,014,670 and 6,339,775, both titled "Apparatus and Method for Performing Data Transformations in Data Warehousing." BOBJ subsequently releases a new version of Data Integrator (11.7.2) removing the infringing product capability.^[3][4]

On October 8 2007 Business Objects announced that they had reached an agreement with SAP to be acquired. SAP to Buy Business Objects SAP AG (ISIN: DE0007164600, FWB: SAP, NYSE: SAP) is the largest European software enterprise and the third largest in the world, with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. ...

References

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External links

• Business Objects website
• Business Objects OnDemand - on-demand business intelligence
• BOBJ Forum
• Crystal Xcelsius from BO
• SAP's Business Objects Buyout: The Integration Angle, IT Business Edge, October 2007
• Xi Business Objects security management

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