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Business Objects Names Anthony Jewitt to New Position of Vice President of Business Development SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 1998--Business Objects (NASDAQ:BOBJY), the world's leading provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools, today announced that it has named Anthony Jewitt to the newly created position of vice president of business development. Jewitt is responsible for developing internet business opportunities for Business Objects. He reports to Dave Ellett, chief operating officer at Business Objects. Jewitt has more than 12 years of experience in management consulting and business development. Most recently, he was director of practice development at leading management consulting firm, Price Waterhouse LLP. At Price Waterhouse, Jewitt managed $10M in new business annually for the central region of the United States. Prior to that Jewitt served as director of business development for Oracle Corporation's education division, and as manager of product development at Electronic Data Systems (EDS). He was also a senior consultant and managing consultant at Axiom Consulting and EDS, respectively. "I am very pleased to announce Tony's appointment as vice president of business development," said Dave Ellett, chief operating officer of Business Objects. "He has tremendous skills to help us grow and develop our business opportunities and explore new markets in the internet space." Jewitt holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. 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 that 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.