Business Objects Senior Vice President Janet Wood Named to Top 100 Channel Executives List by CMP's VARBusiness Magazine

"It's an honor to receive this distinction from VARBusiness," saidJanet Wood. "We have worked closely with our partner community todesign a program that delivers the right tools, support, and marketingrequired to succeed. Our partners play a vital role in helpingBusiness Objects achieve its strategic goals, which include expandingthe company's footprint in the mid-market and in vertical industries.The ultimate goal of our partner program is to help our mutualcustomers achieve outstanding results through the use of ourindustry-leading business intelligence, performance management, andenterprise information management solutions."

"We celebrate the men and women who enable solution providers withprograms, products and inspiration," said VARBusiness Editor LawrenceM. Walsh. "These executives are worthy of emulation by all of theirpeers."

The Top 100 Channel Executives list is selected by editors ofVARBusiness, based on a survey of channel executives with respect toyears of service, size of their channel programs, and their partnerpriorities for the coming year. In addition to being published in theApril 3 issue of VARBusiness magazine, the feature package andexecutive listing is posted to the Web at www.varbusiness.com.

For more information on the Business Objects Partner Program,please visit http://www.businessobjects.com/partners/.

About VARBusiness Magazine

For the past 19 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have beenthe gateway to the Solution Provider community. VARBusiness providesstrategic insight for technology integrators through industry-definingresearch, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Webservices, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisionsfor their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has beenthe recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial contentand design. Additional information about VARBusiness products, eventsand services, is available at its Web site, www.varbusiness.com.

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI)software company. With more than 35,000 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 enterpriseinformation management. BusinessObjects XI includes CrystalReports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting. BusinessObjects has built the industry's strongest and most diverse partnercommunity, and also offers consulting and education services to helpcustomers effectively deploy 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.

The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports,Intelligent Question, and Xcelsius are trademarks or registeredtrademarks of Business Objects in the United States and/or othercountries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of theirrespective owners.