Thousands of customers and partners gathered today at the Business Objects
(Nasdaq:BOBJ) (Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB) Insight
Americas 07 Conference to hear Business Objects executives and industry
luminaries share their vision for the future of business intelligence
and performance excellence. Insight is the premier learning and
networking event for finance executives, IT executives, business
analysts, and developers looking to leverage the power of intelligent
information to transform their business.
"By harnessing intelligent information,
companies can literally transform their business to gain greater
efficiencies, higher profitability, and a competitive edge,”
said John Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects. "Gathered
together at Insight Americas 07, we are helping our customers better
understand how individuals across their organization can easily access
and use business intelligence to achieve performance excellence.”
At the 13th annual user conference, Business Objects unveiled its newest
product innovations, including:
Crystal
Reports® 2008 -
a dynamic reporting solution with the power to transform the business
user’s experience; Crystal Reports 2008
continues the tradition of reporting excellence and innovation for
both new and existing customers, delivering actionable data for any
organization with a comprehensive set of new features for business
users, report designers, and application developers
BusinessObjects™
Polestar - the first solution that
brings together the simplicity and speed of search with the trust and
analytical power of business intelligence to provide immediate
answers; through easy search and exploration, BusinessObjects Polestar
empowers information workers to quickly find relevant information from
across their enterprise data landscape
Also during the conference, Business Objects celebrated the ongoing
momentum of Insight,
the company’s online community, and issued the
first ever Carbon
Offset Challenge to its attendees. As the first in a series of
challenges to be launched and explored by the Business Objects Insight
community, the Carbon Offset Challenge is designed to demonstrate the
value of applying collective intelligence to solve environmental issues.
Future challenges will engage visitors to use data discovery and
visualization to solve and better understand a wide range of
environmental and economic problems impacting the global population
today.
To learn how business intelligence can help your organization leverage
data discovery and visualization to achieve performance excellence,
visit www.businessobject.com/excellence.
About Business Objects
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 44,000
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.
The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects and Crystal Reports are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects in the United
States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
