Business Objects and Kalido Announce Technology Alliance to Deliver Adaptive Performance Management Solution2003 Business Objects International User Conference PHOENIX, AZ, Nov. 11, 2003--(2003 Business Objects International User Conference) - Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence solutions, and Kalido, the leading data warehouse lifecycle management (DWLM) software provider, have announced today a technology alliance to deliver an adaptive performance management solution. As part of this agreement, the two companies will work together to develop seamless integration between the KALIDO(R) DWLM Suite from Kalido and BusinessObjects(TM) Enterprise 6, the industry-leading business intelligence suite from Business Objects. The two companies will also co-sell and co-market solutions in the United States and Europe, focusing on the financial services, energy and retail/consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries. In a world where requirements for compliance and transparency have grown ever more stringent, senior decision-makers face challenges in gaining consistent, reliable, up-to-date enterprise-wide performance information. Often, the data is drawn from across different systems, time periods, product lines, and customer sets. Moreover, business changes often result in time-consuming and expensive IT rework to update information systems. The combination of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 and the KALIDO DWLM Suite can help solve this information disconnect problem. The KALIDO DWLM Suite ensures that the enterprise performance data, whatever its source, remains consistent and accurate throughout change and can be fed seamlessly into whatever Business Objects dashboards and reports the decision-maker wants to use. The combination of 'corporate memory' from the KALIDO software and analysis from BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 provides both an accurate and date-stamped audit trail of past performance changes and a detailed view of current performance across the entire enterprise. The first stage of the technology integration will provide dynamic updating of Business Objects reporting tools through the ability to exchange metadata between the KALIDO DWLM Suite and BusinessObjects Enterprise 6. The companies have also identified additional technology initiatives that will further tighten this integration in the future. John Olsen, president and chief operating officer of Business Objects, comments: "In today's fast-moving world, corporate management teams need accurate and up-to-date business performance information. Having worked together with Kalido on several blue-chip customer projects, we are very excited about the potential for our technology alliance to meet this demand. The combination of our solutions provides a powerful way for organizations to manage enterprise performance." Bob Potter, chief executive officer, Kalido, says: "Today's alliance agreement with Business Objects recognizes that the KALIDO DWLM Suite and BusinessObjects Enterprise 6 suite are the building blocks for a best-practice intelligence architecture. Companies today want greater agility, improved speed of implementation and lower cost-of-ownership from their business intelligence systems. We know from our work together on a number of customer implementations that our products are already highly complementary, and jointly provide a robust intelligence platform for enhanced performance management. We are delighted to develop an even closer working relationship with Business Objects, the market leader in Business Intelligence, as this is a critical part of our Data Warehouse Lifecycle Management (DWLM) strategy." About Kalido Kalido is the leading data warehouse lifecycle management (DWLM) software provider. The KALIDO(R) DWLM Suite automates data warehouse creation and modification to provide business users with timely and consolidated management information throughout organizational change. This ability empowers IT and the business to become more closely aligned to help accelerate financial reporting and enhance performance management of key business entities such as customers, brands, sales, marketing, supply and logistics. The KALIDO DWLM Suite consists of adaptive data warehouse and master data management software. This software application portfolio allows users to rapidly build and maintain an enterprise data warehouse and its master data without the need for programming or operational system standardization. The software suite is designed upon UK-patented technology that enables the business model within the data warehouse to be easily modified to keep it continuously up to date with the business as it changes. Kalido's software reduces the creation and lifecycle maintenance staffing costs of data warehouses by 55 per cent or more compared to custom-built solutions according to an independently audited study. Kalido serves major companies in over 100 countries including Cadbury Schweppes, HBOS plc, Intelsat, Philips, Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (Shell), and Unilever. A privately-held software company, Kalido is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. and London, UK and has regional sales offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and France. Kalido works closely with technology partners and large system integrators for the deployment of Kalido data warehousing projects. More information about Kalido can be found at: http://www.kalido.com. About Data Warehouse Lifecycle Management Data Warehouse Lifecycle Management (DWLM) empowers organizations to effectively manage master data-aligned enterprise data warehouses from initial inception to operation, through maintenance and a lifetime of modification. Compared to traditional data warehousing approaches, DWLM delivers faster data warehouse implementations, allows faster adaptation to organizational change, and reduces backlogs of data warehouse change requests. These abilities ensure that data warehousing implementations remain in step with the business to dramatically improve the quality of management information and significantly reduce project risk. 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 (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB). 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 BusinessObjects is a trademark of Business Objects S.A. in the United States and/or other countries. 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Contacts Business Objects Peter Olson, + 1 408 953 6320 peter.olson@businessobjects.com or Kalido Zoe White, +44 20 7934 3300 zoe.white@kalido.com |