BusinessObjects delivers the leading e-business intelligence solution to help businesses leverage their corporate data both inside and outside the enterprise. Business Objects BI solutions deliver two main benefits. First, business users have the ability to access, analyze, and share data across enterprise networks and in extranet and e-commerce environments.

Second, the information technology (IT) department has the necessary tools to setup, control and manage user access inside and outside the enterprise. Business Objects has helped thousands of worldwide organizations leverage their corporate data and deploy BI solutions to increase competitiveness and maximize profit.

In enterprise networks, the company's products provide employees with information to make better business decisions and are used in environments ranging from workgroups of 20 users to enterprise deployments exceeding 20,000.

In the extranet environment, the company is pioneering the use of BI in applications that allow organizations to build stronger relationships with and deliver new services to customers, partners and suppliers via the internet.

Analytic applications offer pre-built solutions to complex business problems. However, isolated departmental applications can't answer the tough questions that reach across all parts of a business. Business Objects offers revolutionary analytic products based on our vision of integrated enterprise analytic applications - applications that leverage the world's leading BI platform to provide one business view from boardroom to shop floor.

Business Objects is a web-enabled full-client tool that allows users to easily combine, compare, and report on data from a wide range of sources, including the internet. Using the same tool, users can perform sophisticated OLAP analysis on the data, even when working offline, and share their results.

With its InfoView portal, Business Objects gives business users insight into their company's wealth of information. To see the numbers behind the numbers or to change perspective, users need OLAP navigation in standard reports. And when standard reports are not enough, users need to go off road to enjoy the endless possibilities provided by interactive report creation

BusinessObjects 2000 offers users maximum flexibility for working with information in the way that suits them, so that their decision-making process is fast, intuitive, and effective.

To address this need, Business Objects has been empowering businesses to open up their data through high-performance e-BI solutions. With its integrated query, reporting, and analysis tools, Web Intelligence and Business Objects, Business Objects has helped thousands of organizations worldwide leverage their corporate data, increase their competitiveness, and maximize their profit

Business Objects offers a complete range of support and services to ensure customers around the world obtain the maximum business benefit from their e-business intelligence deployments. A global network of Business Objects e-BI technology experts provides customer support, consulting, and education that can be tailored to fit the needs of any organization.