Triad Hospitals Keeps Pulse on Financial Planning Process With Business Objects

Healthcare Performance Management Offers Simplified Budgeting, Planning, and Reporting for Triad's 51 Hospitals

SAN JOSE, Calif. and PARIS - March 7, 2006 - Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Triad Hospitals, Inc. has deployed Business Objects planning solutions for Healthcare. Triad, one of the nation's largest healthcare institutions, selected Business Objects because it offers a performance management suite specifically designed to manage the unique and complex planning, budgeting, and reporting needs of healthcare organizations.

Using the Business Objects Excel-based planning platform, Triad improved its process for forecasting staffing and salaries, and the reimbursements from managed care contracts. In addition, Triad Hospitals' lines of business managers are now able to track key performance indicators and their relationship to each other. For example, surgery minutes can be tied to surgery cases, which are then tied back to admissions. This allows Triad to model the impact of admissions going up or down and how that affects the whole organization. Triad estimates they are saving between 30 and 40 percent of the time required for the inter-company planning process.

"Before implementing the Business Objects solution, financial planning was time-consuming, with each hospital and line of business utilizing various software applications and spreadsheets," said Stan Hunt, director of operations and finance at Triad. "Business Objects allowed us to consolidate the planning process and reduce our planning time by almost a month. In addition, by improving our budgeting and planning processes, and delivering more accurate information, the solution provides consistent standards and assumptions that result in users having more confidence in the budget and plans."

Business Objects delivers a comprehensive suite of planning solutions for Healthcare, supporting a breadth of corporate performance needs ranging from long-range strategic planning to daily flash reporting. The software provides an extensive menu of features to customize solutions to each healthcare organization's needs. The software's architecture combines an enhanced spreadsheet environment, industry standard databases, workflow management tools, planning methodology libraries, and several Web-oriented collaboration options enabling any healthcare organization to efficiently create and evaluate strategic initiatives, develop accurate budgets and forecasts, measure performance, and analyze results.

"Because we understand what keeps hospital CFOs, controllers, and finance directors awake at night, we are consistently working toward meeting the demands of healthcare organizations," said Jay Spence, director of healthcare planning solutions for Business Objects. "Our performance management solutions are specifically designed around our healthcare customers' business needs. We have worked closely with Triad Hospitals to ensure they realize the full advantages of using Business Objects software to manage their budgeting and planning processes."

For more information about Business Objects planning solutions, please visit www.businessobjects.com/planning.

About Triad Hospitals, Inc.
Triad, through its affiliates, owns and manages hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in small cities and selected larger urban markets. The Company currently operates 51 hospitals and 10 ambulatory surgery centers in 16 states with approximately 9,300 licensed beds. In addition, through its QHR subsidiary, the Company provides consulting, education, intensive resources and management services to hospitals and health systems throughout the United States.

About Business Objects, an SAP company

Business Objects has been a pioneer in business intelligence (BI) since the dawn of the category. Today, as the world's leading BI software company, Business Objects transforms the way the world works through intelligent information. The company helps illuminate understanding and decision-making at more than 46,000 organizations around the globe. Through a combination of innovative technology, global consulting and education services, and the industry's strongest and most diverse partner network, Business Objects enables companies of all sizes to make transformative business decisions based on intelligent, accurate, and timely information.

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.

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