WALLDORF, GERMANY, PARIS, FRANCE and SAN JOSE, CA and Business
Objects S.A. (NASDAQ: BOBJ) (Euronext Paris: ISIN code FR0004026250
- BOB) today revealed nine joint product packages, available this
month, that will be sold by both organizations' global sales teams.
These packages were chosen to address the most common challenges
facing business users from the C-suite to main street, which
include: gaining better business insight, improving company
performance and ensuring compliance with corporate governance
policies. These packages will allow companies to license, install
and manage solutions from SAP and Business Objects in a single IT
investment transaction.
The companies detail these new product packages in conjunction
with today's announcement acknowledging the next steps in SAP's
successful acquisition of Business Objects (see press release
titled "SAP and Business Objects Unite to Lead Emerging Market for
Business Performance Optimization.") With a broad showing of
support from shareholders and business partners, SAP and Business
Objects now embark on a road map to expand their wide lead in the
market of software for business users into leadership in the
emerging market for business performance optimization.
"Our initial combined software packages enable new customers to
experience the business value gained by the thousands of customers
that are successfully running applications from the SAP and
Business Objects solution portfolios," said L�o Apotheker, deputy
CEO and president of Customer Solutions and Operations, SAP. "These
initial offerings underline the already strong synergies in both
our product and sales organizations, and foreshadow how quickly we
will bring our two companies together. We fully intend to build
upon these offerings and provide our customers with the innovative,
market-leading solutions they've come to expect from SAP and
Business Objects. United by a shared vision to transform the way
the world works by connecting people, information and businesses,
this is the first demonstration of how we will protect and expand
our customers' IT investments, while helping them to further
optimize business performance."
Software Packages from SAP and Business Objects Deliver
Immediate Benefits to Customers of All Sizes
The nine new software "packages" combine solutions from SAP and
Business Objects in groupings designed to help customers hone in
and address particular business challenges. For example, the new
Financial Performance Management (FPM) package will give business
executives the tools they need to help ensure that day-to-day
execution maps to the company's overall business strategy and
goals. The FPM package will also empower business users to help
their company performance excel. The initial packages fall into
three categories: performance optimization applications, business
intelligence platform capabilities and packages specifically for
the small and midsize market.
Performance optimization applications provide business users
with the industry's most complete solutions for improving corporate
performance and ensuring accountability. In addition, the
applications empower employees across the organization with the
tools and insight to proactively contribute to their organizations'
success. The initial two packages for performance optimization are
described below.
-- Financial Performance Management (FPM) package - Provides an
end-to-end suite of applications which CFOs and other business
leaders rely on to increase their companies' financial performance
and operational efficiency. This package helps business users to
align everyday execution with their company's overall business
strategy by providing user-friendly planning, budgeting,
consolidation, and profitability analysis solutions.
-- Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) package - Gives
executives and line of business employees the tools and solutions
to mitigate risks and confirm compliance with corporate governance
policy. GRC solutions provide operational transparency and evidence
that business is conducted within ethical standards and regulatory
mandates.
The SAP and Business Objects business intelligence platform
gives customers a scalable infrastructure that delivers accurate,
timely and actionable insight. The business intelligence platform
also provides access to data of any type and is agnostic to the
underlying business applications and data stores. Packages within
the business intelligence platform include:
-- Visualization and Reporting package - Enhances visibility
into business by simplifying access to any data sources for all
users with interactive, easy-to-use reports and dashboards. Enables
employees to create and distribute visually stunning reports from
within Microsoft Office.
-- Enterprise Query, Reporting, and Analysis package - This is
an extension to the Visualization and Reporting package which
empowers business users with powerful interactive tools to gain
quick business insight. Provides trusted and consolidated business
insight from all organizational data in users' preferred
environments including mobile, widgets, or search box.
-- Data Integration and Data Quality Management package -
Delivers enterprise-class data integration capabilities which
manage and clean data from both SAP and non-SAP sources.
-- Master Data Services package - Enables businesses to
consolidate, harmonize and centrally manage critical business data.
Compliant with industry data standards to help ensure easy data
synchronization across global supply chains.
In addition, three packages have been specially engineered,
packaged and priced for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs). These
packages provide complete, simplified business optimization
applications and business intelligence platform capabilities, which
are easily integrated into customers existing IT infrastructure.
The packages for SMEs include:
-- SAP� Business All-in-One with BusinessObjects Edge Standard
package - Combines the most robust business process platform
designed specifically for the mid to upper-end of the mid market,
with the market's most comprehensive BI offering for SMEs. It will
be available this month from both SAP and Business Objects' field
organization and channel partners.
-- Crystal Reports� Server package - For the first time, the SAP
channel will be able to provide Crystal Reports Server, a complete
reporting solution for small and medium-sized businesses, directly
to its install base offering their customers the benefits and
simplicity of working with a single IT vendor.
-- BusinessObjects Edge Series package - The Business Objects
channel will continue to offer the BusinessObjects Edge Series to
its SME customers. The BusinessObjects Edge Series now includes
integration for SAP Solutions, giving midsize SAP customers
enhanced reporting and analysis capabilities.
Availability
All packages will be available later this month. For more
details on the packages, please visit www.sap.com/press and
www.businessobjects.com/SAPacquisition.
About SAP
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software*.
Today, more than 43,400 customers in more than 120 countries run
SAP� applications -- from distinct solutions addressing the needs
of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for
global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver� technology
platform to drive innovation and enable business change, SAP
software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve
customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create
efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations.
SAP solution portfolios support the unique business processes of
more than 25 industries, including high tech, retail, financial
services, healthcare and the public sector. With subsidiaries in
more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges,
including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol
"SAP." (Additional information at http://www.sap.com)
(*) SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise
resource planning and related applications such as supply chain
management, customer relationship management, product life-cycle
management and supplier relationship management.
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 45,000 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.
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an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell any
Business Objects securities. The complete terms and conditions of
the U.S. offer are set forth in the U.S. Offer to Purchase and
related documentation filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") by SAP France on Schedule TO and the
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Business Objects on Schedule 14D-9, as amended. The complete terms
and conditions of the French offer are set forth in the Note
d'Information and Note en R�ponse filed by SAP France and Business
Objects with the French stock exchange authority (Autorit� des
march�s financier, "AMF") which are available on the websites of
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(www.sap.com) and Business Objects (www.businessobjects.com), and
may be obtained free of charge respectively from SAP France SA and
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