Business Objects Wins Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award for crystalreports.com

Launched last week at the Summit, crystalreports.com enablescustomers to securely share important business information over theweb. With crystalreports.com, mid-sized organizations can takeadvantage of the industry's most advanced and complete BI platformwithout additional investments in their IT infrastructure.

Hundreds of senior IT executives attending the Midsize EnterpriseSummit completed confidential ballots to select technology vendors forMidsize Enterprise Innovation Awards after previewing and learningabout new technologies and services in private boardroom appointmentsand world premiere presentations. Business Objects was chosen 'Best inShow,' recognizing the most innovative solutions and the mostintegrated, high visibility promotional effort throughout the Summit.

"The mid-market is a key growth area for Business Objects, and wecontinue to provide new and innovative business intelligence solutionsto enable these organizations to improve their business performance,"said Todd Rowe, vice president of worldwide mid-market business atBusiness Objects. "Small and medium-sized organizations often strugglewith the constraints of a small IT department and tight budgets. Thelaunch of crystalreports.com extends our market position in deliveringBI solutions targeted specifically at the mid-market that deliver thepowerful functionality of an enterprise solution, at a cost that workswithin the budget constraints of a mid-sized organization. We feelwinning the Midsize Enterprise Innovation Award is a great achievementand is further proof that Business Objects continues to set the bar inthe BI industry."

In addition to crystalreports.com, Business Objects offers avariety of other solutions designed for mid-sized organizations,including Crystal Reports(R) Server XI and several mid-market solutionbundles. Crystal Reports Server XI is a packaged reporting solutionthat includes everything mid-sized organizations need to create,deliver, and manage reports over the web. The Business Objectsmid-market solution bundles combine software for performancemanagement, reporting, and data integration, to provide complete BIsolutions to meet the needs of mid-market organizations. These bundlesprovide the ease of implementation, deployment, and managementrequired by mid-market organizations to keep their costs down, whiledelivering the scalability of the BusinessObjects(TM) XI platform togrow with their organization over time.

Midsize Enterprise Summit is produced by Vision Events, a Gartner,Inc. (NYSE: IT) company. For more information on Business Objectssolutions for the mid-market, please visithttp://www.businessobjects.com/midmarket/.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI)software company. With more than 35,000 customers worldwide, includingover 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helpsorganizations gain better insight into their business, improvedecision-making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company'sbusiness intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BIindustry's most advanced and complete platform for performancemanagement, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterpriseinformation management. BusinessObjects XI includes CrystalReports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting. BusinessObjects has built the industry's strongest and most diverse partnercommunity, and also offers consulting and education services to helpcustomers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., andParis, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ)and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. Moreinformation about Business Objects can be found atwww.businessobjects.com.

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