Business Objects is the world’s leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 35,000 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.

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

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT)—an organization of more than 70 member firms with 120,000 people in nearly 150 countries—provides unmatched depth and breadth of professional services that deliver value and results to clients and their communities in each market segment. It is the four world-class businesses of audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services that make Deloitte member firms different—that enable them to deliver Deloitte. Sustainability, however, comes from Deloitte member firms’ being the most sought after by clients, the people who make up the firms, and their communities. Not only are the people of Deloitte member firms technically proficient, they also strive to set the highest professional standards. How? People live the Deloitte Shared Values and adhere to the Deloitte member firms’ Ethical Principles, and a strong tone is set at the top.

The Company, which is quoted on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange, is committed to growth and to the continual development of solutions that improve an organisation's ability to more effectively produce, consolidate, analyse and report financial and wider management information in a unified way.

In addition, Systems Union's solutions enable today's organisations to adopt a proactive approach to budgeting, planning and forecasting processes, crucial for the future success of any business and its domestic and international operations.

The Group's objective to remain the world's leading mid-market provider of Financial and Performance Management solutions is supported by its expanding portfolio of truly global solutions, its global scale and its global reach combined with a international team of staff and management and the financial resources necessary to further drive the business and its success

Today Systems Union Group plc comprises SunSystems, MIS, Vision, Pegasus, REDtechnology, ncSoft and Foundation Systems. The Group delivers its Financial and Performance Management solutions to over 50,000 customer sites in 194 countries around the world via its network of 45 corporate offices in 20 countries and 500 reseller partners in 73 countries

Teradata, a division of NCR, is the global leader in enterprise data warehousing and enterprise analytic technologies and services. Organizations use Teradata® solutions to gain a single view of their businesses so they can make better, faster decisions that drive growth and profitability. Companies leverage this integrated source of consistent, accurate data to identify opportunities to increase revenues, decrease costs, and improve relationships. Teradata customers are industry leaders and include sixty percent of the top global companies. With our proven expertise and best-in-class technology, Teradata can help you see your business like never before. To learn more, go to http://www.teradata.com/