Fujitsu Siemens Computers Selects Business Objects Analytic Applications
San Jose, Calif. – November 26, 2001 -- Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ), the world’s leading provider of business intelligence solutions, today announced that Fujitsu Siemens Computers has purchased BusinessObjects™ Application Foundation as a framework to build analytic applications for all areas of its business worldwide. It has also selected Business Objects as its standard enterprise reporting solution to be deployed company wide. The new analytics capabilities from Business Objects will allow Fujitsu Siemens Computers to obtain an improved understanding of its customers, financials, and supply chain, critical in the increasingly competitive computer hardware industry.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers will rollout BusinessObjects™, the integrated, query, reporting, and analysis solution for the enterprise from Business Objects as its internal reporting standard, to all levels of the company worldwide. It will also deploy BusinessObjects Application Foundation, a new analytic application framework that lets businesses quickly and easily develop powerful, integrated enterprise analytic applications. Fujitsu Siemens Computers will use Application Foundation to build an analytic dashboard for executives and sales managers. This “digital cockpit” will access information from Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ i2, SAP, and Siebel applications, allowing the management to view key metrics of its business.
“We chose Business Objects because of its enterprise-wide reporting capabilities and its strong partnerships with Siebel, SAP, and i2,” said Kai Flore, CIO of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. “With its extremely intuitive interface, Business Objects will give our employees a consolidated, end-to-end view of important information as well as the invaluable freedom to individually create reports.”
The open and extensible architecture of Application Foundation will enable Fujitsu Siemens Computers to implement enhancements to its applications and add pre-packaged analytics from Business Objects at any time. The company can leverage the powerful analytic engines built into Application Foundation to perform complex set-based analysis and time-series analysis. This will allow Fujitsu Siemens Computers sales managers and company executives to track key user segments worldwide, to make sure they are meeting sales targets by customer segment or region.
About Fujitsu Siemens Computers:
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European computer company and offers one of the world’s most complete product and solution portfolios. Its world-leading technology and innovative IT products span the entire range of personal computing and enterprise computing needs. With extensive manufacturing facilities in Germany and more than 7,000 employees serving our customers, the company operates in 25 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers offers unrivalled expertise in enterprise computing with best-in-class Intel- and Unix-based servers, mainframes and enterprise storage solutions. The company is also one of the leading providers of professional PCs, notebooks and workstations to business customers, and is Europe's leading supplier of PCs for home users and small offices.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is jointly owned by Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, and benefits from the combined strengths and innovation of its parent companies. The global cooperation between Fujitsu and Siemens provides access to a worldwide network of service and integration partners as well as more than 80,000 specialists dedicated to the Fujitsu Siemens Computers product and solutions portfolio.
The company has clearly defined its strategic direction, focusing on Business Critical Computing and Mobility solutions as the key drivers of the eBusiness and the Internet age. Business Critical Computing builds on the core competencies of Fujitsu Siemens Computers and guarantees extremely scalable, secure and always-on IT infrastructures for both current and future eBusiness environments. The company is also addressing the dramatically increasing demand for advanced solutions that support the mobility of users with anytime access to Internet services and applications - independent of location and device. For further information, please visit: www.fujitsu-siemens.com
About Business Objects
Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 35,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects™ XI, offers the BI industry's most complete and trusted platform for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports®, the industry standard for enterprise reporting. Business Objects has built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and also offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.
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.
