Business Objects Tops Infoworld Readers' Choice Awards 

Beats Competition for Best Business Intelligence Product of the Year

San Jose, Calif. - June 06, 2001. Readers of InfoWorld have spoken, and 
Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ), the world's leading provider of 
e-business intelligence (e-BI) solutions, is their number one choice for 
business intelligence. Business Objects won the InfoWorld Readers' 
Choice Award in the Knowledge Management/Business Intelligence Product 
of the Year category, beating out all business intelligence vendors to 
take the top spot. In addition, Business Objects was named as a finalist 
in the Enterprise Application of the Year category, along with IBM, 
Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. Business Objects placed in the top three, 
and was the only business intelligence vendor named as a finalist in 
this category.

The award announcements are published in the June 4 issue of InfoWorld, 
and online at www.infoworld.com. Finalists for the awards were nominated 
by InfoWorld editors, writers, and analysts. InfoWorld subscribers, 
which number 370,000, were then asked to vote online for their favorite 
company and products, using their subscription numbers to identify 
themselves. Each subscription number could vote only once.

"This award reflects the opinions of a knowledgeable and unbiased 
community - the readers of InfoWorld, and is yet another proof point 
that Business Objects is the clear leader in e-business intelligence," 
said Bernard Liautaud, president and CEO of Business Objects. "With over 
13,000 customers, we have become the de facto standard for companies 
that want to access, analyze, and share their corporate information, 
both inside and outside their organizations. Now we are working with our 
customers to create the next generation of intelligent businesses, via 
mobile business intelligence, analytic applications, and extranet 
solutions." 


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