Business Objects Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Business Intelligence Platforms Report

  
    
  
  
    
      Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJ), an SAP company (NYSE:SAP) and the world’s 
      leading provider of business performance optimization solutions, today 
      announced that it has been positioned in the leaders quadrant in 
      Gartner, Inc.'s latest “Magic Quadrant for 
      Business Intelligence Platforms1” 
      report, published February 1, 2008.
    
    
      According to Gartner, "Leaders are vendors that are reasonably strong in 
      the breadth and depth of their BI platform capabilities, and can deliver 
      on enterprise-wide implementations that support a broad BI strategy. 
      Leaders articulate a business proposition that resonates with buyers, 
      supported by the viability and operational capability to deliver on a 
      global basis.”
    
    
      BusinessObjects XI is highly regarded by customers as an end-to-end BI 
      platform – from information discovery and 
      delivery solutions, including advanced analytics like predictive, to 
      enterprise information management – enabling 
      users to have all data at their fingertips, answer critical questions 
      and share trusted insights among people and teams across their entire 
      business network. With a broad array of connectivity options to any data 
      source, structured or un-structured, BusinessObjects XI is ideally 
      suited for any enterprise environment.
    
    
      Already a business intelligence market leader, Business Objects has 
      continued to strengthen its market position in 2007 through the 
      acquisition of Inxight and addition of text analytics to its portfolio, 
      as well as increased adoption of its software-as-a-service solutions.
    
    
      “For nearly eighteen years, Business Objects 
      has been shaping the business intelligence market, continually driving 
      innovation and challenging the industry to reach for new heights,” 
      said Marge Breya, executive vice president and general manager, Business 
      Intelligence Platform Group at Business Objects. “Now, 
      as part of SAP, we are poised for even greater success as we continue to 
      deliver our customers the solutions they need for their heterogeneous 
      environments to truly transform the way they work and accelerate their 
      business performance.”
    
    
      SAP and Business Objects Webcast on the Future of Business 
      Intelligence and New Product Announcements
    
    
      Business Objects also announced today that it had invited companies 
      worldwide to find out what the union of SAP and Business Objects will 
      mean for their organizations. Henning Kagermann, CEO SAP, and John 
      Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects, will host a webcast on February 12, 
      2008 to announce new offerings from SAP and Business Objects designed to 
      turn insight into action, optimize decisions, and to help companies to 
      close the loop between strategy and execution. For more information, or 
      to register for the Webcast, visit www.businessobjects.com/webcast.
    
    
      For more information about Business Objects solutions, please visit www.businessobjects.com/products.
    
    
      About the Gartner Magic Quadrant
    
    
      The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused 
      with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a 
      marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s 
      analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that 
      marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, 
      product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise 
      technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” 
      quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and 
      is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all 
      warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including 
      any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
    
    
      About Business Objects, an SAP company
    
    
      Business Objects has been a pioneer in business intelligence (BI) since 
      the dawn of the category. Today, as the world's leading BI software 
      company, Business Objects transforms the way the world works through 
      intelligent information. The company helps illuminate understanding and 
      decision-making at more than 46,000 organizations around the globe. 
      Through a combination of innovative technology, global consulting and 
      education services, and the industry's strongest and most diverse 
      partner network, Business Objects enables companies of all sizes to make 
      transformative business decisions based on intelligent, accurate, and 
      timely information.
    
    
      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.
    
    
      © 2008 Business Objects S.A. All rights 
      reserved. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, 
      BusinessObjects and Inxight are trademarks or registered trademarks of 
      Business Objects S.A. in the United States and/or other countries. All 
      other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective 
      owners.
    
    
      1 Gartner, Inc., “Magic 
      Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008” 
      by James Richardson, Kurt Schlegel, Bill Hostmann, Neil McMurchy, 1 
      February 2008