Business Objects Delivers BusinessObjects Personal Trainer; Industry's first mass-customized training solution for large-scale decision support deployments
Business Wire - June 30, 1998 08:23
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1998--Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, today announced BusinessObjects Personal Trainer(tm), a new computer based training (CBT) product. BusinessObjects Personal Trainer allows organizations to get the most value from their decision support investment by ensuring that users can exploit the industry's leading decision support product, BusinessObjects(tm), to its fullest potential.
BusinessObjects Personal Trainer enables customers to train a large, diverse, and mobile user population. The product first assesses a user's unique business needs and current product skill level, and then develops a personalized training plan that is fully integrated with BusinessObjects 4.1. The administrator can supervise the progress and performance of each user to gauge how well his user community is exploiting the full power of BusinessObjects. For example, the administrator can track overall time spent in training and users' increased competency-level with BusinessObjects.
"With BusinessObjects Personal Trainer, Business Objects is demonstrating their leadership in enterprise decision support, as one of the first vendors in their space to offer a computer based training product," said Teresa Wingfield, Senior Industry Analyst, Giga Information Group. "I see a key need for a training product like this, which will be a tremendous benefit to companies who are deploying large scale, enterprise-wide decision support systems."
"As an experienced leader in large enterprise deployments, we understand what goes into implementing a decision support system to hundreds or thousands of users," said Bernard Liautaud, president and CEO of Business Objects. "Ease of use has always been a key advantage of the Business Objects solution. We believe that ease of learning is also a very important element of success for our customers. BusinessObjects Personal Trainer is a new and innovative way for business users to learn how to take best advantage of BusinessObjects, and understand how to access, analyze, and share corporate information more quickly and easily. We believe it will be a key factor for the success and speed of deployment of our enterprise decision support solutions."
Pricing and Availability
BusinessObjects Personal Trainer is available now. Pricing is $150 per user. BusinessObjects Personal Trainer has been co-developed with PRO'TRAINING, a leading developer of corporate multimedia training software. BusinessObjects Personal Trainer is part of a family of training products and services, offering customers flexibility in Business Objects training.
About Business Objects
Business Objects is the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools. Business Objects products provide non-technical business users with access to information stored in data warehouses, data marts, and packaged business applications. Business Objects provides a complete suite of decision support tools including query, reporting, online analytical processing, data mining, and DSS administration for both client/server and internet environments. Business Objects has sold more than 780,000 licenses to over 6,200 organizations in more than 60 countries worldwide.
Business Objects may be reached by phone at 408-953-6000 or on the worldwide web at businessobjects.com. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbol BOBJY.
BusinessObjects and BusinessObjects Personal Trainer are trademarks of Business Objects SA. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
A full-text copy of this announcement may be obtained by calling the Company's fax retrieval line at 800-414-2114 and selecting option "two." The announcement may also be downloaded from the Web; access "http://www.businesswire.com/cnn" and search on "Business Objects." Business Objects product inquiries should contact 800-527-0580.
CONTACT: Business Objects
Randy Cairns, 408/953-6036
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