With companies increasingly looking for a data integration tool that is tightly integrated with their business intelligence platform, Business Objects, the world`s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, has shown significant momentum with BusinessObjects Data Integrator.
Business Objects has now signed more than 200 new BusinessObjects Data Integrator customers since introducing the product in August of last year, including 60 in the most recent quarter alone.
A key component of BusinessObjects Enterprise 6, the industry-leading business intelligence suite from Business Objects, Data Integrator enables companies to easily integrate data from multiple enterprise applications, in order to effectively track, understand, and manage enterprise performance.
By tightly integrating BusinessObjects Data Integrator within its BI suite, Business Objects has seen momentum for its data integration products across a wide variety of vertical markets. Recent new customers include AstraZeneca, City National Bank, Cutter & Buck, Iomega, Maxtor, National Australia Bank, Nextel Communications, Norwood Promotional Products, Otis Elevator, Peugeot, Poste Italiane, RedEnvelope, Siemens Medical Solutions, State of Vermont, Unilever, US Army, US Environmental Protection Agency, and US Navy among others. In SA, companies that are benefiting from the integration of these technologies are De Beers and Kumba Resources, to name but a few.
"Our research shows that many organisations view data integration tools as an essential element of a complete business intelligence platform," said Wayne Eckerson, director of research for The Data Warehousing Institute. "These organisations want data integration technology that is fully integrated with their overall business intelligence solution."
"Business Objects is committed to providing our customers with an industry-leading data integration solution to simplify and streamline the process of integrating data across their disparate operational data sources," said Chris Caren, vice-president of corporate product marketing at Business Objects. "As witnessed by the number of new customer deals last quarter, which outpaced our market rivals, companies view BusinessObjects Data Integrator as one of the leading solutions in this market. Our customers want to standardise on one business intelligence vendor and having a data integration solution that is integrated with their overall BI platform is very important."
Companies worldwide are turning to BusinessObjects Data Integrator to help accelerate their business intelligence deployment times and lower total cost of ownership, while ensuring that timely and accurate information is delivered to users of BI tools and analytic applications.
BusinessObjects Data Integrator allows developers to visually construct connections between operational data sources and a data warehouse, creating a powerful data foundation for strategic business intelligence and enterprise performance management. In addition, BusinessObjects Rapid Marts accelerate this process by providing native connectivity to enterprise applications from SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft/JD Edwards, and Siebel Systems. With the launch of BusinessObjects Data Integrator 6.1, Business Objects delivers substantial productivity enhancements through a new user interface and built-in data preview and profiling, a new parallel performance architecture, and impact analysis across the entire business intelligence environment.
For more information on data integration solutions from Business Objects, please visit: http://www.businessobjects.com/products/data_integration/.
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Business Objects is the world`s leading provider of enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business Objects enables organisations 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, optimise 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 http://www.businessobjects.com.
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