Business Objects and Salesforce.com Team to Provide Advanced Business Intelligence and Data Integration to Joint Customers

Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ)(Euronext Paris ISIN code:FR0004026250 - BOB) and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) today announced therelease of the BusinessObjects(TM) XI Integration Kit forsalesforce.com. The integration kit enables organizations to maximizethe value of their salesforce.com data using the industry-leadingbusiness intelligence and data integration technology from BusinessObjects. BusinessObjects XI, including BusinessObjects DataIntegrator, enables salesforce.com customers to have easy access toadvanced reporting and analysis capabilities for their customerinformation housed in salesforce.com and elsewhere throughout theenterprise.

Through this strong partnership, Business Objects andsalesforce.com have worked closely to integrate the two company'ssolutions and will conduct joint sales and marketing activities.Business Objects has leveraged Appforce, salesforce.com's on-demandplatform, to create a solution that complements the salesforce.comsoftware-as-service approach.

Salesforce.com provides a powerful on-demand customer relationshipmanagement (CRM) solution that helps companies attract, grow, andretain profitable customers. With the Integration Kit forsalesforce.com, BusinessObjects XI extends the reporting capabilitiesalready provided by salesforce.com to enable customers to access theirsalesforce.com data, as well as data from other sources such as ERP,MRP, and other CRM systems, to develop advanced reports and performad-hoc analysis of things such as customer trends and sales pipelines.In addition, BusinessObjects XI enables the creation of customized,role-based dashboards for executives, managers, and individualemployees to enable each user to see the information relevant to theirjob in a highly graphical manner. These dashboards enable companies tomonitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and proactively alert userswith the information they need.

"Salesforce is proud to extend its leadership in on-demandanalytics through a partnership with Business Objects. In addition tothe industry-leading on-demand analytics built into Salesforce, wecontinue to offer our customers the broadest array of options toanalyze their CRM information," said Bobby Napiltonia, SVP ofworldwide alliances at salesforce.com. "With a powerful solution likeBusinessObjects XI, companies can extend the robust reporting andanalysis capabilities native to salesforce.com, to create personalizeddashboards and utilize other advanced analysis functions to maximizethe value of their salesforce.com data. Our tight integration withBusiness Objects is all about realizing our vision of giving customersthe best insight possible through internally developed and 3rd partyanalytics options."

BusinessObjects XI provides secure Web Services integration forsalesforce.com customers, enabling reliable data access and optimizedreporting, analysis, and performance management capabilities. Jointcustomers can use BusinessObjects XI to combine salesforce.com datawith their other corporate data to gain a complete view of theirbusiness. The combined salesforce.com and Business Objects solutionprovides powerful analytics to gain the necessary customer andbusiness insight to make better business decisions and optimizeenterprise performance.

"Through advanced reporting and analytics, including dashboards,Business Object offers joint customers the ability to get even morevalue from their salesforce.com information by integrating theirSalesforce.com data with corporate data warehouses or other datasources," said Janet Wood, group vice president of global alliancesand OEM at Business Objects. "BusinessObjects XI, the foundation forthe new Integration Kit for salesforce.com, helps customers alignexecution with strategy and more easily monitor key business metricsto improve decision making. In addition, this solution enablescompanies to leverage the valuable customer data stored insalesforce.com with their other corporate data to gain the insightsnecessary to improve the overall performance of their business."

Appforce is a complete on-demand platform that includes AppforceBuilder, Appforce DB, Appforce API, and the Appforce OS fordevelopment and deployment of multiple on-demand applications.Appforce provides unprecedented ease of customization and integrationfor Salesforce deployments, as well as enabling a whole new generationof on-demand applications that go beyond CRM.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI)software company. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, includingover 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helpsorganizations gain better insight into their business, improvedecision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company'sbusiness intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BIindustry's most advanced and complete platform for performancemanagement, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and dataintegration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), theindustry standard for enterprise reporting. Business Objects has builtthe industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and alsooffers consulting and education services to help customers effectivelydeploy their business intelligence projects.

Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., andParis, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ)and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. Moreinformation about Business Objects can be found atwww.businessobjects.com.

About salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demandcustomer relationship management (CRM). The company's Salesforcefamily of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and shareall of their sales, support, marketing and partner information ondemand. Appforce, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allowscustomers to customize and integrate the Salesforce family to meettheir unique business needs, and build whole new powerful applicationsquickly and easily. Appforce applications are available viaAppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand application sharing service.Customers can also take advantage of salesforce.com's world-classtraining, support, consulting and best practices offerings.

As of July 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer informationfor approximately 16,900 customers and approximately 308,000 payingsubscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online(AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Avis/Budget Rent A Car(Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom andSunTrust. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this orother press releases or public statements are not currently availableand may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchasesalesforce.com services should make their purchase decisions basedupon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com hasheadquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, andtrades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM."For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.

Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects,WebIntelligence, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, CrystalAnalysis, RapidMarts, and BusinessQuery are trademarks or registeredtrademarks of Business Objects S.A. or its affiliated companies in theUnited States and/or other countries. Salesforce.com is a registeredtrademark of, and Appforce and AppExchange are trademarks of,salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used maybe trademarks of their respective owners. All other names mentionedherein may be trademarks of their respective owners.