Sandia National Laboratories Standardizes on Business Objects
SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 15, 2005 – Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Sandia National Laboratories has selected Business Objects as its business intelligence standard. At any given time, Sandia manages between 8,000 to 10,000 different national security projects. These initiatives are often performed on behalf of the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration and are aimed at preventing technological surprises, anticipating threats, and providing innovative solutions to our nation's most critical security issues. To support their financial operations, Sandia generates roughly 25,000 financial reports each week. Since each project is critical, administrative delays of any kind are unacceptable. Sandia Labs turned to Business Objects to improve its reporting efficiency.
With locations in California, Hawaii, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington D.C., Sandia is a multi-program laboratory that creates innovative technologies for helping our nation secure a peaceful and free world through technology. Every project has its own manager, and one or more financial analyst to ensure that the project is on time, within budget, and meets client specifications. When the labs first deployed Oracle's enterprise resource planning system to help manage its business, the work quickly piled up for the analysts. For example, more than eight reports per project were being generated, each showing a different fiscal aspect of the work performed.
Soon top managers at Sandia realized that project and financial managers were spending too much time consolidating separate reports by hand in order to answer critical questions such as budget versus actual spending. To address this challenge, the laboratory expanded its existing Business Objects deployment and selected Web Intelligence as its reporting standard, connecting it directly with Sandia's financial system. Today, more than 2,200 managers review two PDF reports every Monday with just a few clicks, performing the same task that used to take the most expert analyst at least 30 minutes.
"Our project managers now need only a few clicks of a Web browser to tell them exactly where their project stands financially," said Gwen Pullen, manager, Business Enabling Systems for Sandia National Laboratories.
"When you consider the responsibilities our government carries in defending our country it can get easy to forget that key contributors such as Sandia Labs still have businesses to run. If they don't run well, we're less safe as a nation," said Jay Johnson, vice president of Government for Business Objects. "Fortunately, the agencies know this all too well. That's why so many of them are turning to Business Objects to improve the way they serve us all."
About Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness. For more information, visit http://www.sandia.gov.
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About Business Objects
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