A t Business Objects, we realize there are many

types of organizations – including those who

embrace a culture of performance management, and

those that would like to embrace the idea, but don’t

know how to do it or where to start. In many cases,

companies have been using our industry-leading

reporting and query and analysis tools for years to help

them improve the performance of their organizations,

but they want to take their use of information to the

next level. Through the use of performance manage-

ment methodologies like Balanced Scorecards, Six

Sigma or Total Quality Management, organizations are

improving their bottom line through uniform goals and

measurable metrics – all with the support of Business

Objects solutions.

Our Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

products help organizations plan for success and

assess the achievement of their strategies and com-

pany goals. Customers can model their business and

perform “what if” analyses, create plans and forecasts,

improve general budgeting, manage financial consoli-

dations and employee productivity. Once plans are

made and goals are set, customers can then track and

analyze key business metrics and goals via manage-

ment dashboards, scorecards and alerts. Our EPM

applications build on our core products and embed

industry best practices for business analysis, support-

ed by a framework that can be customized and adapt-

ed to unique customer needs. We deliver a set of

focused applications that provide prepackaged met-

rics and reports for industry verticals and roles within

an organization.

Business Objects offers customers a modular EPM

approach that may be deployed iteratively by individual

or hybrid functional areas and business units, or across

the enterprise. Its end-to-end functionality ranges from

automated data integration – which Gartner calls the

biggest challenge to effective EPM – to easy-to-use

end-user dashboards. It supports leading business

process methodologies, including Six Sigma, Balanced

Scorecard and Economic Value Added (EVA).

BusinessObjects PlanningOur planning products enable customers to turn busi-

ness goals into financial plans and budgets that can

easily be measured and improved. With our planning

products, customers can create capital plans and

strategic forecasts; improve general budgeting, payroll

planning, and sales planning; manage financial consoli-

dations and employee productivity; and take corrective

action of minor problems before larger issues arise.

BusinessObjects Dashboard ManagerDashboard Manager assists users in monitoring critical

business metrics, be alerted about issues that need

attention and manage dashboards to help the user to

take action faster. Dashboard Manager helps organiza-

tions understand business drivers and deploy personal-

ized dashboards.

BusinessObjects Performance Manager Performance Manager is a scorecarding product that

helps organizations align actions with strategy. Through

setting goals and tracking performance in scorecards,

people can focus their efforts, collaborate with others

and follow recommended actions to improve organiza-

tional performance.

Performance management applicationsOur performance management applications provide

insightful and timely analysis, allowing users to take

immediate action to address key business issues. The

Business Objects performance management applica-

tions drive insight throughout key business segments

including customers, products and services, supply

chain, human resources and finance. Our solutions for

retail and consumer packaged goods enable users to

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understand and analyze key information to answer spe-

cific business questions within industry verticals and

throughout compliance environments.

EPM Built on the Most Trusted BI PlatformOur customers’ EPM solutions are built on the world’s

leading business intelligence (BI) platform to provide

real-time insights into business performance, Web-

based reporting and alerts and the power to drill seam-

lessly into detail data. A suite of enterprise analytic

applications and our application framework provide

deep analytic content with the ability to customize to

the needs of your organization. It gives you the power to

manage – and improve – your organizational perform-

ance, from factory floor to executive suite:■ Monitor and measure performance against goals

across sales, marketing, operations, finance,

supply chain, customer and product management;■ Align and optimize technologies and business

processes, tactics and strategies, resources and

objectives, business unit and corporate goals

with metrics;■ Focus and execute on bottom-line business

drivers across operational divisions to enhance

performance enterprisewide;■ Collaborate and communicate atop a scalable

Web-based BI framework for faster, smarter

decision making;■ Analyze and anticipate revenue cycles, supply

chain and product performance, customer behavior

and more from single browser interface; and■ Leverage existing resources through a flexible,

standards-based BI platform.

Delivering Meaningful Insight to ExecutivesBusiness Objects’ world-leading business intelligence

solutions, including Crystal Reports and BusinessObjects

XI , provides executives and process owners with timely,

intuitive and powerful tracking, measuring and manage-

ment of business performance.

Discover how Business Objects can help you

increase the value of your customer relationships, aug-

ment your organization’s overall efficiency and prof-

itability and gain the insights you need to enhance the

performance or your organization.

Take the Next StepFor more information on Business Objects Performance

Management solutions with Accenture, please contact

your local Business Objects representative, or call

+1-866-681-3435 (toll-free North America) or

+1-604-681-3435 (outside North America).

About Business ObjectsBusiness Objects is the world’s leading business

intelligence (BI) software company. With more than

30,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 per-

cent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps

organizations gain better insight into their business,

improve decision making and optimize enterprise per-

formance. The company’s business intelligence plat-

form, BusinessObjects™ XI, offers the BI industry’s

most advanced and complete platform for reporting,

query and analysis, performance management and

data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal

Reports®, the industry standard for enterprise report-

ing. Business Objects has also built the industry’s

strongest and most diverse partner community, and

also offers consulting and education services to help

customers effectively deploy their business intelli-

gence projects.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in SanJose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company’s stock istraded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris(ISIN: FR0004026250 – BOB) stock exchanges.More information about Business Objects can befound at www.businessobjects.com. ■

Business Objects is the world’s leadingbusiness intelligence (BI) and EnterprisePerformance Management solutions company.

John Schwarz, Chief Executive Officer

Janet Wood, Senior Vice President, Global Partnerships & Sales Enablement

Juliette Sultan, Chief Marketing Officer, Worldwide Marketing

Robb Eklund, Vice President, Industry and Solutions Marketing

Corporate Headquarters:Business Objects3030 Orchard Pkwy.San Jose, CA 95134Toll-free North America: +1.866.681.3435International: +1.604.681.3435Fax: +1.604.681.2934

Business ContactGuy Weismantel Senior Director Corporate Marketing+1.206.321.9251Guy.weismantel@businessobjects.com

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