Sunday, October 21, 2007

Business Objects nets 14,000-seat Australia Post deal

I am often asked which companies are using Business Objects product suite.

In Australia Australia Post is planning to boost its business intelligence capabilities. It has signed a 14,000-seat software licence with Business Objects. The three-year installation and support deal is the largest local win for Business Objects, which originated in France and is now listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Australia Post is embarking on a performance management initiative, and will use our software to help it do all reporting and analysis
Business Objects Asia-Pacific general manager Keith Budge said. “It’s a pretty significant project, certainly a world leader for the postal industry."

In an interview with Australian IT ... Australia Post chief information officer Wayne Saunders said the organisation was focused on shaping its enterprise architecture for the future.

"We saw an opportunity to make business intelligence tools a strategic platform," he said.

"With the BI infrastructure, we can develop an architecture that supports the business."


Business Objects reports ... Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 39,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects™ XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.