SAN JOSE, Calif., PARIS, and ORLANDO, Fla. -
Business Objects, (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB) and
Teradata, a division of
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), today announced an expanded partnership to jointly develop and deliver an end-to-end business intelligence (BI) offering for Teradata's® Retail Decisions solution. Business Objects is the world's leading provider of BI solutions, and Teradata is the global leader in enterprise data warehousing.
As part of the agreement, BusinessObjects™ XI provides a BI platform to build queries, reports and dashboards that fit a retail business user's analytic requirements for Teradata Retail Decisions. The combined solution enables retailers to answer business questions in various functional areas such as sales, inventory and vendor analysis, seasonal planning, merchandising, promotions, customer behavior, product assortment and pricing.
"Today's database and storage technologies have allowed retailers to gather mountains of data on products, customers, vendors and operations, to the point where their capability to store data has exceeded their ability to use the data effectively," said Robb Eklund, vice president of segments industry solutions at Business Objects. "In the fast-paced and competitive world of retailing, it takes a tightly integrated world-class business intelligence and enterprise data warehousing solution to transform this data into actionable insight. This relationship combines Teradata's proven retail expertise and analytics and best-in-class enterprise data warehousing technologies with Business Objects' broad suite of enterprise business intelligence solutions. Together, we enable retailers to improve performance by better understanding which items, locations and vendors contribute the most to sales and profitability."
"Retailers who choose Teradata solutions do so to gain a unique consolidated view of their business across any functional area and to ensure this view is comprehensive, consistent and accurate," said Rob Berman, vice president, retail industry, Teradata. "With this expanded partnership, Teradata and Business Objects are offering retailers a more flexible and operations-friendly solution which promotes the ability to make better, faster decisions that directly affect top-line revenues, decrease costs and improve customer satisfaction."
Teradata and Business Objects have been business partners since 1996. The two companies already share a customer base of more than 300 companies across multiple industries, including retail, communications and manufacturing, many of which are active participants in the Teradata Advisory Group (TAG). The TAG helps define and prioritize the overall integration roadmap between the companies' technologies and provides input on which Teradata features and functions are to be incorporated by the Business Objects product team in the future.
This agreement continues to strengthen the existing global marketing, sales and engineering relationship between Business Objects and Teradata. Teradata will continue to resell Business Objects software and services, including the new Retail Decisions offer on Business Objects XI. This makes it easier for Teradata customers to leverage their existing Teradata platform with the industry-leading BI software from Business Objects.
About Business Objects
Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 30,000 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 advanced and complete 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.
About Teradata Division
Teradata,
(www.teradata.com) a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), is the global technology leader in enterprise data warehousing, analytic applications and data warehousing services. Organizations around the world rely on the power of Teradata's award-winning solutions to get a single, integrated view of their business to enhance decision-making, customer relationships and profitability.
About NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a leading global technology company helping businesses build stronger relationships with their customers. NCR's ATMs, retail systems, Teradata® data warehouses and IT services provide Relationship Technology™ solutions that maximize the value of customer interactions and help organizations create a stronger competitive position. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NCR
(www.ncr.com) employees approximately 28,300 people worldwide.
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