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Business Objects and Data Advantage Group Announce Technology Alliance
Delivering Enterprise-wide Visibility and Metadata Analysis
within Heterogeneous Environments
SAN JOSE, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug.
20, 2003--Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ - News), the world's
leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions,
and Data Advantage Group, a leading provider of information
resource management software, today announced the signing
of a technology alliance. As part of this alliance, the two
companies will integrate BusinessObjects() Enterprise 6
with Data Advantage Group's MetaCenter Platform to help organizations
that are struggling to manage metadata from disparate tools
and technologies.
BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 delivers the industry's most
integrated suite of business intelligence products, encompassing
data integration, a BI platform, and analytic applications.
Enterprise 6 provides easy metadata management and exchange
between BusinessObjects Data Integrator and the BI platform.
Data Integrator provides real-time and batch extraction, transformation,
and loading (ETL). It can easily exchange metadata with third-party
tools through the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) standard,
as well directly through application interfaces.
MetaCenter is the market leading metadata management platform
for providing solutions to organizations looking to better
understand the interdependencies among, and the data lineage
flow across, their entire application infrastructure. While
companies are beginning to standardize on a single end-to-end
solution for their BI needs, many companies continue to work
with disparate BI tools and transactional, database, data
integration, data quality, and data modeling technologies.
Using open standards such as CWM and XML, Data Advantage Group's
MetaCenter Platform empowers these companies by providing
a single real-time window into their complete information
system environment. The alliance announced today complements
the BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 end-to-end BI suite integration
by providing an additional degree of support for organizations
working with heterogeneous sets of metadata across various
vendor specific repositories.
"Companies are struggling to understand the context of their
enterprise data," said Sachin Chawla, vice president of data
integration technology at Business Objects. "The integration
of Enterprise 6 with the MetaCenter Platform enhances the
ability of our customers to gain a deep understanding of their
data -- increasing their operational efficiency and profit,
while minimizing business risk."
"Today's announcement builds upon the long-standing relationship
between Data Advantage Group and Business Objects, " said
Geoff Rayner, CEO of Data Advantage Group. "The integration
of our MetaCenter Platform across the full range of Business
Objects products will provide visibility into the metadata
within the entire suite of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, including
reporting and data integration. This will especially strengthen
BusinessObjects Data Integrator as an enterprise-class data
integration (DI) platform that organizations can standardize
upon for their batch and real-time data movement needs by
using open standards to extend metadata sharing and exchange
beyond the BI and DI platforms."
About Data Advantage Group
Data Advantage Group is the leading provider of information
resource management software. Data Advantage Group's MetaCenter()
Platform is a 100% browser-based, real-time metadata analytics
platform with an integrated corporate information asset repository
that empowers both business and technical users to collaborate
and easily research, locate, and manage enterprise metadata
assets. Data Advantage Group's clients include: Allmerica
Financial, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Boeing, Cable
& Wireless, Diageo, Fidelity Invesents, The Life Insurance
Division of Pacific Life & Annuity, SE Banken and VW Credit.
Visit www.dag.com for more information.
About Business Objects
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 suite, called BusinessObjects Enterprise 6. This
suite includes the industry's best web query, reporting, and
analysis; the most advanced and complete suite of analytic
applications; and the best connectivity to packaged applications.
Business Objects has more than 18,000 customers in over 80
countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the
ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris (Euroclear
code 12074). It is included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French
stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408-953-6000
and www.businessobjects.com.
Business Objects is a trademark of Business
Objects S.A. in the United States and/or other countries.
MetaCenter is a trademark of Data Advantage Group, Inc. Other
company and product names may be trademarks of the respective
companies with which they are associated.
Contact:
Business Objects
Peter Olson, 408/953-6320
peter.olson@businessobjects.com
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Eastwick Communications
Erin McCabe, 650/480-4016
erin@eastwick.com
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